Pergolesi: Stabat Mater P. 77 - Haydn: Symphony No. 49 In F

Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater has enjoyed enormous fame ever since the eighteenth century – Rousseau called its first movement ‘the most perfect and touching that has ever come from the pen of any composer’. There were many arrangements of the work, by Bach or Hiller among others. This recording teams two emblematic singers with the excellent Maîtrise de Radio France, of which Adèle was a member as a young girl. (Alpha)