Rossini: Stabat Mater – review

Netrebko/DiDonato/Brownlee/D'Arcangelo/Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano(EMI)Rossini's 1842 setting of the Stabat Mater formed a conscious departure from the Pergolesi model, aspiring to drama rather than contemplation. It has long been controversial and subject to charges, by no means fully warranted, of flippancy and operatic popularism. Antonio Pappano, conductor of this new recording, views it as a precursor of Verdi's Requiem: "The desperation and th...

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