Michael Hofstetter- Stabat Mater & Laudate Pueri (CD)
"All the contemporary witnesses owed the deep impression made on them by Pergolesi's church music to the singing of castrati. As often and willingly as Stabat Mater is sung and heard with women's voices today, it was the pure, ethereal voices of two castrati who first lent the proper expression to the gallant pain of Pergolesi's Passion sequence. Michael Hofstetter and the two young singers on this recording liberate his music from the cliche of a thoroughly soft music of sentimental feelings. The vocal lines come to life thanks to the typical manners of the castrati: The short grace notes, slides, trills and the 'messa di voce'." Dr. Karl Behmer.
Tracklist:
- Stabat Mater: Stabat Mater Dolorosa
- Stabat Mater: Cuius Animam Gementem
- Stabat Mater: O Quam Tristis Et Afflicta
- Stabat Mater: Quae Moerebat Et Dolebat
- Stabat Mater: Quis Est Homo Qui Non Fleret
- Stabat Mater: Vidit Suum Dulcem Natum
- Stabat Mater: Eia Mater, Fons Amoris
- Stabat Mater: Fac, Ut Ardeat Cor Meum
- Stabat Mater: Sancta Mater, Istud Agas
- Stabat Mater: Fac, Ut Portem Christi Mortem
- Stabat Mater: Inflammatus Et Accensus
- Stabat Mater: Quando Corpus Morietur
- Laudate Pueri: Laudate
- Laudate Pueri: A Solis Ortu
- Laudate Pueri: Excelsus Super Omnes
- Laudate Pueri: Quis Sicut Dominus
- Laudate Pueri: Suscitans A Terra
- Laudate Pueri: Gloria Patri
- Laudate Pueri: Sicut Erat In Principio
"All the contemporary witnesses owed the deep impression made on them by Pergolesi's church music to the singing of castrati. As often and willingly as Stabat Mater is sung and heard with women's voices today, it was the pure, ethereal voices of two castrati who first lent the proper expression to the gallant pain of Pergolesi's Passion sequence. Michael Hofstetter and the two young singers on this recording liberate his music from the cliche of a thoroughly soft music of sentimental feelings. The vocal lines come to life thanks to the typical manners of the castrati: The short grace notes, slides, trills and the 'messa di voce'." Dr. Karl Behmer.
Tracklist:
- Stabat Mater: Stabat Mater Dolorosa
- Stabat Mater: Cuius Animam Gementem
- Stabat Mater: O Quam Tristis Et Afflicta
- Stabat Mater: Quae Moerebat Et Dolebat
- Stabat Mater: Quis Est Homo Qui Non Fleret
- Stabat Mater: Vidit Suum Dulcem Natum
- Stabat Mater: Eia Mater, Fons Amoris
- Stabat Mater: Fac, Ut Ardeat Cor Meum
- Stabat Mater: Sancta Mater, Istud Agas
- Stabat Mater: Fac, Ut Portem Christi Mortem
- Stabat Mater: Inflammatus Et Accensus
- Stabat Mater: Quando Corpus Morietur
- Laudate Pueri: Laudate
- Laudate Pueri: A Solis Ortu
- Laudate Pueri: Excelsus Super Omnes
- Laudate Pueri: Quis Sicut Dominus
- Laudate Pueri: Suscitans A Terra
- Laudate Pueri: Gloria Patri
- Laudate Pueri: Sicut Erat In Principio