Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater by Alessandro Scarlatti is a religious musical work composed for two voices (soprano/alto), two violins and basso continuo, in 1724, on a commission from the Order of Friars Minor, the "Knights of the Virgin of Sorrows" of the Church of San Luigi in Naples for Lent The text, the Stabat Mater sequence, is a 13th-century liturgical text meditating on the suffering of Mary, mother of Christ. Considered outdated by those who had ordered it, Scarlatti's work was replaced in 1736 by the famous Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Scarlatti set the Stabat Mater three times.
Movements
- Stabat Mater dolorossa
- Cujus animam gementem
- O quam tristis et afflicta
- Quae moerebat et dolebat
- Quis est homo
- Quis non posset contristari
- Pro peccatis suae gentis
- Vidit suum dulcem natum
- Pia Mater
- Sancta Mater
- Fac ut ardeat cor meum
- Tui nati vulnerati
- Juxta crucem
- Virgo virginum praeclara
- Fac ut portem Christi mortem
- Inflammatus et accensus
- Fac me cruce custodiri
- Quando corpus morietur
Recommended recordings
Most recent recordings
- A. Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Mottetti — Alessandro Scarlatti, Emmanuelle De Negri, Paul Figuier, Thibault Noally, Les Accents (2025) Spotify
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