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Easter: A Seasonal Journey... Vivaldi's Stabat Mater

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores Vivaldi's setting of the Stabat Mater, a 13th-century hymn to the Virgin Mary. Featuring medieval music and sacred works from Dvorak, Handel and Gounod.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores Vivaldi's setting of the Stabat Mater, a 13th-century hymn to the Virgin Mary. Featuring medieval music from Jordi Savall, sacred works including Gounod's 'Ave Maria', and Sean-nós singing from the Irish band The Bonny Men.

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BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Songs from the Arc of Life.
    • Masterworks.

  • Alfonso X el Sabio

    Cantigas De Santa Maria - Instrumental, CSM 77-119

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alfonso X El Sabio - Cantigas De Santa Maria.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Alma redemptoris mater

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Cecilia McDowall: Sacred Choral Music.
    • Hyperion.

  • Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

    Mother's Love

    Performer: Maria Thompson Corley.
    • Soulscapes 2 - Piano Music by Women of African Descent.
    • MSR Classics.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo.
    • Onyx Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Brockes-Passion, No. 40a: Recit & No. 40b: Duet

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Singer: Stéphane Degout. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon. Ensemble: Pygmalion.
    • Bach & Handel.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Traditional Irish

    Caoineadh Na Dtri Mhuire

    Singer: Natalie Ní Chasaide. Ensemble: The Bonny Men.
    • Bonny Records.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Stabat Mater, Op. 58: VII. Virgo virginum praeclara (Largo)

    Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Dvořák: Stabat Mater.
    • Phi.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Stabat Mater, FP 148: VI. Vidit suum

    Singer: Kathleen Battle. Choir: Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Poulenc: Gloria; Stabat Mater.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Nisa

    Tu Vuo Fà L'Americano

    Lyricist: Renato Carosone. Singer: Renato Carosone.
    • I Piu Grandi Successi.
    • EMI Marketing.

  • Ilse Weber

    Wiegala

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Music Arranger: Esther Abrami. Ensemble: Esther Abrami Ensemble.
    • Wiegala (Arr. for Violin and String Quintet by Esther Abrami).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.

  • Herbert Howells

    Stabat Mater: Sancta mater

    Singer: Benjamin Hulett. Choir: The Bach Choir. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Howells: Stabat Mater, Te Deum & Sine Nomine.
    • Naxos.

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Stabat Mater Op. 53: VI. Chrystus niech mi bedzie grodem

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Pamela Helen Stephen. Singer: Gábor Bretz. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Sean Connors. Performer: Peter Martin.
    • Reich: Mallet Quartet, Sextet, Nagoya Marimbas & Music for Pieces of Wood.
    • Cedille.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Stabat Mater, RV 621

    Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Choir: Capella Cracoviensis. Ensemble: Capella Cracoviensis. Conductor: Jan Tomasz Adamus.
    • Vivaldi: Stabat Mater.
    • Warner Classics.

Broadcast

  • Sunday13:30
    BBC Radio 3