Good Friday fare: Pergolesi and Stainer
Two powerful images from the events of Good Friday at Calvary, are brought together in music on Good Friday, 22nd April when Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is performed alongside Stainers’ Crucifixion, at St Stephen’s Church, in Macquarie Street, Sydney. Pergolesi’s work paints the grieving mother whilst Stainer’s depicts the object of her grief – the crucifixion death of her Son. In fact,…