Les Talens Lyriques (Mater Dolorosa)

Mater Dolorosa

Watch Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques live from one of the major musical events of the autumn: the Festival d'Ambronay.

Under the baton of their founder, the conductor and harpsichordist Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques open the concert with one of the sacred music repertoire's most famous and beautiful scores: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. Composed in 1736 on a text which dates back to the 13th century, the Stabat Mater tells through the voices of one soprano and one alto the pain endured by Mary while her son was suffering on the cross... Read more.