New Release - Stabat Mater von Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

ANDREA MARCON, Conductor
JULIA LEZHNEVA, Soprano
SARA MINGARDO, Alto
MÜNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER

We are pleased to announce the digital release of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, featuring Julia Lezhneva and Sara Mingardo together with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Andrea Marcon.

The live recording from the October 2022 concert at the Isarphilharmonie was released on April 18, 2025, on the Warner Classics label.

“The most perfect and touching thing that ever flowed from the pen of any musician«, this is how Jean-Jacques Rousseau praised the opening duet of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. The vivid, highly emotional language of the medieval poem about the sorrow of the Mother of Christ for her crucified son has inspired composers throughout the ages. Pergolesi's version, a stroke of genius by the young composer who died far too young, was one of the most popular of the 18th century and is as moving today as it was then. With a heartfelt simplicity and sensitive songfulness, Pergolesi struck a chord with a time that he himself would not live to see.

With Julia Lezhneva (soprano) and Sara Mingardo (alto) and under the direction of Andrea Marcon, a proven specialist in historical performance practice, conducting the Munich Philharmonic, this work unfolds in all its emotional power – a jewel of vocal baroque literature.”

Gabriele Luster wrote on October 10, 2022, in the Münchner Merkur: “Julia Lezhneva and Sara Mingardo together with strings and continuo under Andrea Marcon turned Pergolesi's ‘Stabat Mater’, touching in all its simplicity, into great baroque expressive music.”