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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater | ||||||||
Sound: 6 Feeling: 8 Presentation: 7 |
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Running time: 4:14 | ||||||||
This haunting song begins with a soft instrumental tune that gives you a content feelings. Around the :43 second mark some young male voices pick up in a religious sounding tribute that sounds like a false calm before the storm. Though the voices sometimes seem to clash, the singers do an excellent job of showing you the emotion of great depression mixed with a glimmer of hope. Pergolesi died at the age of twenty-six, and his life was filled with failure. As the Amen movement begins, we sense the bitterness and sorrow he must have felt towards the end of his life. As the song grows faster and louder, we feel as if we are being torn in two. Then it ends suddenly, like a light flicking off, and we almost feel cheated, as if it was unnatural to end the song this way. |