For Lent in 1724, the brotherhood of the Knights of the Sorrowful Virgin in Naples commissioned a two-voice Stabat Mater from the famous composer Alessandro Scarlatti. His patrons soon deemed it out of fashion, and a few years later it was replaced by Pergolesi's famous version. Yet the old Scarlatti's composition is a strange, fascinating, tortured work, and in many ways more modern for our contemporary ears. Soprano Marie Théoleyre and countertenor Rémy Brès-Feuillet, accompanied by the...