Join Gillian Fisher and Michael Chance as they get straight to the soul of Pergolesi’s glorious Stabat mater, whose opening bars were described (in 1754) as being ‘the most perfect and most touching to have come from the pen of any musician’. This seminal album from The King’s Consort, one of Europe’s leading period instrument orchestras, was hailed by Gramophone as being ‘so greatly superior to all previous recordings of Pergolesi’s deathbed “Stabat mater” as to put the others completely out of the running’
