Details
St John's Wood Church
Lord's Roundabout
St John's Wood
London
NW8 7NE
England
Programme
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Stabat Mater
Antonio Vivaldi – Gloria in D major, RV 588
Performers
Ben Wolf – Conductor
Royal Free Music Society Choir
Belsize Baroque Orchestra
Programme Note
The Royal Free Choir and Belsize Baroque Orchestra join forces to present Pergolesi's last larger composition, the "Stabat Mater" of 1736, which immediately became one of the most popular sacred works of the late baroque-early classical era. Vivaldi's popular Gloria was written earlier, probably in 1715, while he was employed at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice.
