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...Spectrum Singers perform Mozart's Coronation Mass and Schubert's Stabat Mater and Magnificat at the First Congregational Church, 11 Garden...
Cambridge Society for Early Music features "Unknown Bach" on Monday, as Joshua Rifkin conducts an oboe concerto, violin concerto and the first "modern" performance of Bach's reorchestration of Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater." Go to Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. to find out whether or not there was a reason that these pieces remained unknown for so long. Dial 247-1465 or 723-7328 for more info...
VERDI: FOUR SACRED PIECES (Angel). Just before he wrote Falstaff at 79, Verdi composed the Ave Maria and Laudi alia Vergine Maria; he finished the Te Deum and Stabat Mater at 83. Together they make a magnificent and devout peroration to the lifework of a man who was a freethinker in his youth. The Te Deum includes a most urgent prayer, and Verdi asked that the music be buried with him. Carlo Maria Giulini leads the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (240 voices) in a stereophonic recording that matches the soaring splendor of the music...
...crazy title credits worthy of Saul Bass, a flower-watering take-off on the silent cinema, and even a cross-eyed Mona Lisa. Approoutset with a Weillanously blasphemous parody of priate background music has been concocted by Robert Prince, who strikes the right note at the Rossini's Stabat Mater (which is, indeed, blasphemous even in the original), and later summons up remembrances or Mendelssohn's Spring Song and the concluding fanfare of Paramount newsreels...
...Stabat Mater's simplicity became a great virtue because of this change. While its melodies and accompaniment flow with ease and winning sweetness, its mourning draws back from florid tone-painting to achieve a simpler expression of grief. The introduction of the chorus was, indeed, not an intrusion, for Emily C. Romney, Assistant Conductor of the Choral Society, directed the group with simplicity and made the delightful melodies really sing...