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Franz Tunder) and the English luminaries Henry Purcell

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This cultural melting pot was ultimately mirrored in the music she heard

Quite apart from setting the scene for the rest of their career as the Four Seasons

this programme presents a great master of the genre

Pergolesi/ Devos - Stabat Mater AEC Music Franz Tunder) and the EnglishPergolesi's Stabat Mater has enjoyed enormous fame ever since the eighteenth century Rousseau called it's first movement 'the most perfect and touching that has ever come from the pen of any composer'. There were many arrangements of the work, by Bach or Hiller among others. It was performed more than eighty times at the Concert Spirituel in Paris between 1753 and 1790, in multiple versions, probably also with the participation of a choir. After