Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle and Verdi’s Stabat Mater

Wooburn Singers

The Petite Messe Solonelle has been described as “the finest work of Rossini’s later years. He composed it between 1863 and 1864 at the age of 71 as a commission for Countess Louise Pillet-Will for the consecration of her private chapel, where the work received its first performance in March 1864”

Verdi’s Stabat Mater, the last of his Four Sacred Pieces, has been described as “a mixture of the purity and simplicity of the sixteenth century version of Palestrina, with the drama and pathos of Il Trovatore”