Domenico Scarlatti - Stabat Mater A Dieci Voci - Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini / Opus 111 Audio CD 2002 / OP 30248

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Alessandro Scarlatti's Stabat Mater is a religious musical work composed for two voices (soprano/alto), two violins and basso continuo, in 1724, on a commission from the Order of Friars Minor, the "Knights of the Virgin of Sorrows" of the Church of San Luigi in Naples for Lent

The text, the Stabat Mater sequence, is a 13th-century liturgical text meditating on the suffering of Mary, mother of Christ.

Considered outdated by those who had ordered it, Scarlatti's work was replaced in 1736 by the famous Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.

Scarlatti set the Stabat Mater three times. There is another manuscript of a three-part Stabat Mater, dated 1715 and kept in Naples (Stabat Mater [II]) and a third work, composed for four voices, dated 1723, but now lost (Stabat Mater [III]).