Stabat Mater

Sunday 3 April, 2:30pm, St Patrick's Basillica, Fremantle


Works include: Domenico Scarlatti Stabat Mater, Marc-Antoine Charpentier La Reniement de St Pierre, Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs, Johann Sebastian Bach “O Lamm Gottes, Unschüldig” BWV 656 from The Eighteen for organ, Marcel Dupré “Crucifixion” from Symphonie Passion Op 23 for organ


Conductor: David Gething


For its first concert of the 2011 Concert Series the Giovanni Consort joins with Pipe Organ Plus Organist, Dominic Perissinotto and the renowned Baritone Sitiveni Talea to present Stabat Mater, a concert that will take audiences on a musical journey with religious overtones in celebration of Lent and Easter.


Charpentier’s short but exquisite Latin oratorio Le Reniement de St Pierre on the denial of St. Peter may have been intended for performance in a Holy Week church service, but it is among the most dramatic works he ever wrote. Set for double chorus and organ continuo, the Stabat Mater by Domenico Scarlatti is a sublime and evocative meditation of Christ’s journey to the Cross. The concert will also include organ music by Bach and Dupré then finish with the warm romantic melodies and rich sonorities of The Five Mystical Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams.