About the music: Hear My Prayer, O Lord / Stabat Mater

Hear my prayer, O Lord

About Purcell's setting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_my_prayer,_O_Lord_(Purcell)

Source text:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+143&version=KJV

 About Henry Purcell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell

http://www.52composers.com/purcell.html  shorter and not as dry as Wikipedia article

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Pergolesi - "Stabat mater"

About the composer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Pergolesi

 http://www.52composers.com/pergolesi.html

biographical info with pictures – not as ‘dry’ as the Wikipedia article!

About the text:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabat_Mater

About Pergolesi's setting, specifically - interesting!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabat_Mater_(Pergolesi)

Background of Pergolesi’s “Stabat mater”