As a young man, Pergolesi wrote his famous Stabat Mater in 1736 a few weeks before his death for a Neapolitan lay brotherhood.
The poignant mood of the work, written in the then newly emerging galant style, soon met with interest and great approval. Even Johann Sebastian Bach contributed a beautiful arrangement in his cantata “Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden” (BWV 1083).
The singers are the Tyrolean soprano Vanessa Waldhart, who is currently engaged in Halle an der Saale, and the Wilten alto Pascal Ladner, who studies singing with Prof. Johannes Stecher at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in cooperation with the Vienna University of Music and has already shone in several major oratorios.