Pergolesi’s ultimate masterpiece by Barbara Hendricks!
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi — Stabat MaterBarbara Hendricks — Ulrika Tenstam — Drottningholms Barockensemble
On the eve of the tercentenary of Pergolesi’s birth in 2010, Barbara Hendricks has recorded his last work, the Stabat Mater. From the time of its creation, this masterpiece was considered the emblem of perfection and expressive beauty of eighteenth century Italian music. It assured the composer an immediate posthumous reputation which inaugurated the myth of the young, genius musician who died too young.
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Beethoven’s genius in songs: the perfect collection!
Ludwig van Beethoven — Lieder & VolksliederBarbara Hendricks — Love Derwinger — Christian Bergqvist — Leo Winland
With these 28 Lieder and Volkslieder, veritable little masterpieces of tenderness, humour, emotion and poetry, Barbara Hendricks reminds us that Beethoven was also a brilliant and pioneering song composer. A repertory that is rarely recorded and infrequently performed in concert, this disk is a magnificent discovery!
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Arte Verum is the
new label created
by Barbara Hendricks
in January 2006,
for which she will
record in exclusivity.
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