Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Vivaldi Concertos : Abbado / Teatro alla Scala, Ricciarelli, Valentini-Terrani

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Katia Ricciarelli, soprano
Lucia Valentini Terrani, contralto
Soloists of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Claudio Abbado, conductor

For the Carinthian Summer Festival, which was founded in 1969 and which is now one of Austria's leading music festivals, the present concert has positively historic significance: this was the first live TV broadcast in the festival's history and was filmed at the famous Abbey Church at Ossiach which got whose beautiful Baroque design dates from the middle of the 18th century. But for the music lover, the concert is worth treasuring for musical reasons too, featuring, as it does, the young Claudio Abbado conducting a performance of Pergolesi's Stabat mater with two of Italy's leading singers of their generation. The rest of the programme comprises two magnificent examples of Vivaldi's "concerti con titoli". ( Medici Arts )

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat mater
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor "per l'orchestra di Dresda", RV577
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in C major "per la solennita di S. Lorenzo", RV556

NTSC:
REGION CODE: 0
PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
SOUND FORMATS: PCM-STEREO, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1
BOOKLET: GB, D, F
RUN TIME: 75 mins