Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, etc – review

Prohaska/Fink/Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Forck (Harmonia Mundi)Performances of the Stabat Mater have proliferated in Pergolesi's tercentenary year, sometimes to the exclusion of his other works. What continues to astonish, however, is the range of interpretation his most popular score permits. Its latest recording, with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin directed by its leader Bernhard Forck, gives us something harsher than we're used to. Speeds are on the fast side, and the orchestral sou...

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