Pathos

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Stabat Mater, séquence pour soprano, alto, cordes et orgue
Sebastian Hennig / René Jacobs - Concerto Vocale
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 158 MB | Partial Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi # 1901119 | Country/Year: France 1987, 1983
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Sacred, Vocal

"…If you retain a place in your heart for this work, do try this performance. Its many ravishing moments easily win over the shortcomings." ~Grammophone

In an emotionally lush 5th volume, Carsten Nicolai completes the acclaimed Xerrox series of conceptual image-to-sound recordings with a romantic, richly melodic finale that epitomises his solo work’s clinamen from coldly mechanical and nanoscopic to warmer, widescreen themes since initiating the series in 2005 - RIYL Gas, Lawrence English, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Biosphere, Michael Nyman.

Throughout the 19th century, the chamber music of Georges Onslow (1784-1853) was afforded the same respect as that of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. According to one source, “his work was admired by both Beethoven and Schubert, the latter modeling his own 2 cello quintet (D.956) on those of Onslow and not, as is so often claimed, on those of Boccherini.” While Onslow was known as “the French Beethoven,” his string quartets/quintets fit neatly within the quatuor brilliants genre that arose from Louis Spohr. This type of string writing gives the first violin freer rein as a soloist; a concerto for violin and string quartet, in other words.