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"Four Stars ... the early material is used as a jumping-off point for various improvisations, from the unobtrusive melodic twists of French pianist Francois Couturier and German cellist Anja Lechner, to De Vito's whoops, gasps and scat-like squirmings ... both opera and improv listeners may find much to enjoy in it." - The Guardian Acclaimed vocalist Maria Pia De Vito pays tribute to 18th century composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi on this programme that underlines his relationship to the art music and the popular music of Naples from a highly contemporary perspective. The text of the Stabat Mater, translated into Neapolitan by De Vito, along with the opera arias, are transformed into songs and vivid narrative, open frames providing the key to reinterpreting Pergolesi. François Couturier's arrangements widen Pergolesi's structures, offering space for improvisational interaction. But this is a real group project, a discourse among acoustic sounds, with rhythms of drums and metals and sampled and real time electronics. Sound textures grow dense with the richness of instrumental counterpoint or are set free in electronic soundscapes and along colouristic, percussive lines, as cello becomes voice or voice becomes an instrument.