To finish off this Easter season, at least the music side, it was Stabat Mater by Greta Claringbould and Toby Cole at Smiths, upstairs at McGregor Hall, with accompaniment by Linus Lee and Zachary Connor, piano and cello. This was a revisit to last years vigil, then with just Linus on piano. The addition of a cello spelt out the accompanying melody line with vocal-adjacent tone and demanded from the piano a less expansive role and more defined role. Nice. Great high vocals are expected from and delivered by this pair and the melodies and harmonies in the work are gloriously beautiful. I chatted with some audience and this was their return too: such is this work and these performers. Others have done this work, but probably the Pergolesi here is the most renowned and loved. Taken with candles and centred spot in a close setting and this is an experience of inestimable beauty and touching intimacy. How could it be otherwise with such a topic: a mother standing below her son on a cross.
Greta Claringbould (soprano) and Toby Cole (counter tenor) performed Pergolesi Stabat Mater at Smiths, McGregor Hall, with accompaniment by Linus Lee (piano) and Zachary Connor (cello).
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