Rossini's Stabat Mater

Ferruccio Busoni - Berceuse élégiaque, Richard Strauss - Tod und Verklärung, Gioacchino Rossini - Stabat Mater. Program Ferruccio Busoni Berceuse élégiaque Richard Strauss Tod und Verklärung Gioacchino Rossini Stabat Mater A deeply religious meditation from the man of cheerful operas such as The Barber of Seville? Rossini proved it was possible. His Stabat Mater is an emotional marriage between comforting religiosity and operatic grandeur. A work that leaves no one untouched. Especially when introduced by two other deeply felt masterpieces by Busoni and Strauss. A concert that pleasantly moves the heart. Pensioned Rossini? From 1830 onwards, Gioacchino Rossini abandoned opera and thought he would enjoy a long retirement. When a year later, during a trip through Spain, he was asked to write a Stabat Mater, he could not resist composing. It was not until 1841 that the version we know today was completed. Despite fierce opposition from the young Wagner, the work was acclaimed at its premiere. Young Strauss contemplates death Where Stabat Mater focuses on a mother's suffering after the death of her son, Strauss' Tod und Verklärung is about the 'blessed' death of a composer. A notable detail: Strauss was only 25 years old when he wrote this work. On his deathbed, some sixty years later, he said to his daughter-in-law: 'Dying is just as I composed it in Tod und Verklärung'.