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Scarlatti's Stabat Mater
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Two of the Baroque’s most profound meditations on grief and mortality come together for a single evening this March. The Cathedral Schola, Trinity’s professional vocal ensemble, joins Portland Baroque Orchestra for a program pairing Domenico Scarlatti’s Stabat Materf or ten voices with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106, the luminous funeral cantata also known as Actus tragicus.
Presented during Passiontide, the program traces a profound emotional arc: from Scarlatti’s aching portrait of grief at the foot of the cross to Bach’s quiet tenderness in the face of mortality. Bach wrote the Actus tragicus when he was barely twenty; it remains one of his most affecting works.
Trinity’s Canon for Music, Katherine Webb conducts, with Organ Scholar James Walton and PBO principal cellist Joanna Blendulf leading the continuo. Featured soloists are Vakarė Petroliūnaitė, soprano; Hannah Penn, mezzo-soprano; Leslie Green, tenor; and Daniel Pickens-Jones, baritone.