Rossini’s ‘Stabat mater’

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, conductor Nil Venditti, and star soloists perform Rossini's Stabat Mater. Respighi's Church Windows light the first half.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ottorino Respighi: Church Windows

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Interval

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Gioachino Rossini: Stabat mater

Federica Lombardi (Soprano)
Chiara Amarù (Mezzo-soprano)
René Barbera (Tenor)
Nicola Ulivieri (Bass)
Epiphoni Consort
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Nil Venditti (conductor

Fragments of Gregorian chant are reassembled in the jewel-toned mosaic that is Respighi’s 1927 Church Windows – given its Proms debut by Nil Venditti and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Four richly scored orchestral movements each depict a different scene in sound: a shimmering nocturne for ‘The Flight into Egypt’, a luminous portrait of St Clare and explosive martial conflict for ‘The Archangel Saint Michael’. Ancient musical models also inspired Rossini’s operatic Stabat mater – a powerful spiritual statement from the master of secular drama.