Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Jodie Devos, Adèle Charvet, Maîtrise de Radio France, Le Concert de la Loge & Julien Chauvin

• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736): Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77:
• 1 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: I. Stabat Mater dolorosa 04:04
• 2 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: II. Cujus animam gementem 02:00
• 3 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: III. O quam tristis et afflicta 01:48
• 4 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: IV. Quae moerebat et dolebat 02:04
• 5 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F minor, P.77: V. Quis est homo qui non fleret 02:31
• 6 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: VI. Vidit suum dulcem natum 03:44
• 7 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: VII. Eja, Mater fons amoris 02:03
• 8 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: VIII. Fac, ut ardeat cor meum 01:56
• 9 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: IX. Sancta Mater, istud agas 05:05
• 10 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: X. Fac, ut portem Christi moetem 03:20
• 11 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P.77: XI. Inflammatus et accensus 01:56
• 12 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: XII. Quando corpus morietur 03:38
• 13 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: XIII. Amen 01:05
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:
• 14 Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 "La Passione": I. Adagio 07:20
• 15 Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 "La Passione": II. Allegro di molto 04:06
• 16 Haydn: Symphony No .49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 "La Passione": III. Menuet - Trio 03:41
• 17 Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 "La Passione": IV. Finale. Presto 02:52
• Total Runtime 53:13

Info for Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

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.

It was performed more than eighty times at the Concert Spirituel in Paris between 1753 and 1790, in multiple versions, probably also with the participation of a choir. After consulting several manuscripts and editions held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Julien Chauvin has chosen to record it with soprano and mezzo soloists (the equivalent of the French dessus and bas-dessus) and a two-part children’s choir: ‘The choir can play a real role in the narration of so powerful and poignant a text’, he says.

This recording teams two emblematic singers of the Alpha label with the excellent Maîtrise de Radio France, of which Adèle was a member as a girl. To complement the Neapolitan masterpiece, we have a ‘sacred’ symphony by Haydn, La Passione, probably written for Good Friday, and in the same key as the Stabat.

Jodie Devos, soprano
Adèle Charvet, mezzo-soprano
Maîtrise de Radio France
Le Concert de la Loge
Julien Chauvin, violin, musical director

Jodie Devos
Since winning prizes at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition, the young Belgian soprano Jodie Devos has pursued a brilliant career that has seen her perform in the leading international opera houses.

Her luminous timbre and virtuosity enable her to sing the most emblematic roles of the coloratura soprano repertory, notably in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Lakmé, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le Comte Ory, La Fille du régiment, Mignon, Cendrillon and L’Enfant et les sortilèges. She performs under the baton of such conductors as Paolo Arrivabene, Laurent Campellone, Mikko Franck, Leonardo García Alarcón, Philippe Jordan, Dmitri Jurowski, Louis Langrée, Antonello Manacorda, Enrique Mazzola, Marc Minkowski, François-Xavier Roth and Christophe Rousset.

Jodie Devos has also given numerous concerts and recitals around the world, which have taken her to Belgium (Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels), France (Paris), Germany (Düsseldorf), Holland (Maastricht), Italy (Venice), India (Mumbai), Canada (Quebec) and Poland (Katowice) and on tour to Brazil.

Adèle Charvet
She is passionate about the song repertoire (the German lied as well as the French mélodie), and appears regularly as a recitalist. Together with her accompanist she was awarded the Prize for Song at the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Competition, and the Lied Duo First Prize at the ‘s-Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition.

Meanwhile, her opera career has led her to some of the world’s most prestigious opera houses: the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Covent Carden in London, the Opéra National in Bordeaux, the Capitole Theatre in Toulouse; the Opéra National and Opéra comique in Paris, and the Royal Opera House at Versailles.

Adèle Charvet has been awarded the prize of honour ‘Yves Paternot’, as the most promising musician of the Academy of the festival d’Aix.

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