Stabat Mater (Scarlatti)

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[[Alessandro Scarlatti]]'s '''''Stabat Mater''''' is a religious musical work composed for two voices ([[soprano]]/[[alto]]), two [[violin]]s and [[basso continuo]], in 1724, on a commission from the [[Order of Friars Minor]], the "Knights of the Virgin of Sorrows" of the Church of San Luigi in Naples for [[Lent]]

This ''[[Stabat Mater]]'', is based on a 13th century liturgical text meditating on the suffering of [[Mary (Mother of Jesus)|Mary]], mother of Christ.

Considered outdated by those who had ordered it, it was replaced in 1736 by the famous ''[[Stabat Mater (Pergolesi)|Stabat Mater]]'' by [[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]].

It is one of the composer's three Stabat Mater. There is another manuscript of a three-part Stabat Mater, dated 1715 and kept in Naples<ref>Naples, Archivio Musicale della Communità Oratoriana dei Padri Filippini.</ref> (''Stabat Mater'' [II]) and a third work, composed for four voices, dated 1723, but now lost. (''Stabat Mater'' [III])

== Detail ==
[[File:Stabat Mater (I) - Alessandro Scarlatti (Ms. Naples).png|thumb|upright=1.6|<center>First page of the "Stabat Mater" in a copy from the 18th century, kept in Florence at the [[Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini]].</center>]]

The ''Stabat Mater'' consists of eighteen pieces that can be grouped into four parts, starting and ending with a duet.

Scarlatti inverts verses 10 and 11 and groups verse 13 with verse 14, and verse 15 also plays verses 16 and 17 in a [[recitative]]. That is eighteen numbers for twenty verses.

Scarlatti's late composition, it impresses by its extraordinary musical richness, variety of forms, chromatic freedom and flexibility of expression. Thus the work is one of his most popular religious works today.

The execution takes about forty minutes.

*''Stabat Mater dolorosa'', a due - Adagio
*''Cujus animam gementem'', canto solo – Moderato e dolce
*''O quam tristis'', alto solo – Poco andante
*''Quae moerebat et dolebat'', a due - Adagio
*''Quis est homo'', canto solo – Andante
*''Quis non posset contritari'', alto solo – Andantino
*''Pro peccatis suae gentis'', canto solo - Moderato
*''Vidit suum dulcem natum'', a due - Moderato
*''Pia Mater'', canto solo – Andantino
*''Sancta Mater'', alto solo – Andante moderato
*''Fac ut ardeat cor meum'', canto solo – Andante molto
*''Tui nati vulnerati'', a due – Adagio
*''Juxta crucem'', alto solo – Andante smorzato
*''Virgo virginum praeclara'', canto solo - Allegro
*''Fac ut portem Christi mortem'', alto solo – Recitativo – Adagio e piano
*''Inflammatus et accensus'', canto solo – Andantino
*''Fac me cruce custodiri'', alto solo – Recitativo - Largo
*''Quando corpus morietur'', a due – Adagio e piano - Allegro

== Manuscript ==
* Florence, [[Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini]], I-Fc (Ms.B 2353b).

== Discography ==
* ''Stabat Mater'' [I] - [[Mirella Freni]], soprano; [[Teresa Berganza]], mezzosoprano; [[Paul Kuentz]] chamber orchestra, [[Conducting|conductor]] [[Charles Mackerras]] (1976, [[Deutsche Grammophon]])
* ''Stabat Mater'' [I], ''[[Salve Regina (Scarlatti, V)|Salve Regina]]'' [V] - Véronique Diestchy,<ref>[https://bbc.in/2Sk9I3q Véronique Diestchy] on BBC Music/</ref> soprano; Alain Zaepffel,<ref>[http://bit.ly/2HFRg1d Alain Zaepffel] on [[Discogs]]</ref> countertenor; Ensemble Gradiva<ref>[http://bit.ly/2SiohV8 Ensemble Gradiva] on Classical Archives</ref> (7-9 August 1988, Adda 581048 / [[Accord (French record label)|Accord]])<ref>When it was released, this record was distinguished with a "Choc" by '''' magazine and 4 keys in ''[[Diapason (magazine)|Diapason]]''.</ref>
* ''Stabat Mater'' [I] - Gemma Bertagnolli,<ref>[http://bit.ly/2HHEkrJ Gemma Bertagnolli short biography] on Bach Cantatas Website</ref> soprano; [[Sara Mingardo]], contralto; Concerto Italiano, dir. [[Rinaldo Alessandrini]] (1998, Opus 111 30-160 / [[Naïve Records]] OP30441)<ref>When it was released, this record was awarded a "10" by Laurent Campellone in the '''' N° 118, November 1998 .</ref> — with Pergolesi
* ''Stabat Mater'' [I], ''[[Salve Regina (Scarlatti, III)|Salve Regina]]'' [III] - [[Sandrine Piau]], soprano; [[Gérard Lesne]], alto; Il Seminario musicale (1998, Virgin 5 45366 2)<ref>When it was released, this disc was distinguished with a ''[[Diapason (magazine)|Golden Diapason]]'' N° 469, April 2000 and a "recommanded" in ''[[Classica (magazine)|Classica]]''.</ref>
* ''Stabat Mater'' [I] - [[Emma Kirkby]], soprano; [[Daniel Taylor (countertenor)|Daniel Taylor]], counter tenor; Theatre Of Early Music (26-29 August 2004, Atma Classique)

== References ==


== Bibliography ==
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== See also ==
* Not to be mistaken for the ''[[Stabat Mater (Domenico Scarlatti)|Stabat Mater]]'' for ten voices (1711) by [[Domenico Scarlatti]].

== External links ==
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* [http://bit.ly/2SkOlio Alessandro Scarlatti, ''Stabat Mater''] on stabatmater.info




[[Category:Compositions by Alessandro Scarlatti]]
[[Category:Religious works]]
[[Category:1724 compositions]]

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