Sound clip from between Bars 180 and 192 in the De Santis edition of Stabat Mater by Domenico Scarlatti - "It may be difficult to imagine Domenico of the harpsichord sonatas conducting the music of the Cappella Giulia ... in the basilica of St Peter's in Rome. Yet during his employment at the Vatican, Domenico was composing music quite as stately as his surroundings." Having written that in his definitive biography of Domenico Scarlatti, the harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick goes on to claim that the Stabat Mater is "a genuine masterpiece, perhaps the first really great work we have seen from Domenico's hand. Large in scope, rich in imagination, and of a lordly ease in the conduct of the counterpoint, it does justice in every way to the eloquence of the text."

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