专辑简介

While Pergolesi's brilliant setting of stabat mater is the most famous setting, Rossini's stabat mater contains much fine music. As in the case of Rossini's petite messe solennelle, Rossini could not prevent himself from injecting humor and joy even to the stabat mater. So the music turned to be of very high quality. Hickox's performance is the best recorded yet and will hardly be bettered.