The most comprehensive Stabat Mater collection ever! works from Palestrina, Vivaldi, A. Scarlatti, Caldara, Bononcini, Boccherini, Perosi, Haydn, Schubert, Rossini, Dvorak, Verdi, Liszt, P?rt and many more. interpreted by the artists: Lawrence Zazzo, Paul Esswood, Elin Manahan Thomas, Gloria Scalchi, Aldo di Toro, Antonino Siragusa, Carlo Colombara, Christine Brewer, Elizabeth Cragg, Robert Murray, Henriette Bonde-Hansen, Benjamin Hulett, The Sixteen, The Bach Choir, The Washington Chorus, Exultate Singers, Chorus of the Hungarian State Opera, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Orchestra of the Opera Society of Washington, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Harry Christophers, Robert Shafer, David Hill, David Ogden, Helmuth Rilling, Pier Giorgio Morandi. - The worship of Mary in Catholic Europe gradually brought the text of the medieval poem Stabat mater dolorosa to the center of music. The motherly love for the Son of God symbolized for believers a connection between the divine and the earthly. Since the Renaissance numerous composers, first in Italy and Spain, soon from all over Europe, wrote the poem about the pain of the mother of Jesus around her crucified son. The Brilliant Classics Box Stabat Mater is the most comprehensive collection of Stabat-Mater recordings ever released. It contains 24 compositions from four centuries from the Renaissance to the present. In addition to the important compositions of Palestrina, Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Haydn, Dvor?k, Poulenc and P?rt, the collection also features rarities by Perosi, Mayr, Lachner, Stanford, Szymanowski, Howells and Nystedt. Top ensembles such as The Sixteen, the Ensemble Symposium, the G?chinger Kantorei Stuttgart under Helmut Rilling and the Coro della RSI under Diego Fasolis guarantee the highest interpretation. A booklet specially written for the collection completes the unique box with the highlights of European vocal music
