I have got an e-mail from Jens Bragdell Eriksson. He is a church musician and composer from Sweden. His Stabat Mater was performed for the first time on Good Friday March 25th 2016. The choirs name is Södra Sallerups Church Choir and the singers are accompanied by Friis quartet. All twenty stanzas are sung, including the final Amen. I …
Stabat from Sardinia in Amsterdam
When Hans was still alive, we sometimes discussed the possibility of going to Sardinia or Sicily in the Holy Week, watching processions and listening to Stabat Maters sung by the villagers. It never happened. Hans’ collection included CD’s with traditionally sung Stabat Maters. Sometimes they are very bare like the ones from Sardinia, sometimes more …
Latest addition: J. B. Foerster
I just added the Stabat Mater by Josef Bohuslav Foerster. Theresia Stössel was so kind to send me this CD: Jubilate Deo from the Chamberchoir of the German Catholic Youth Movement. This Movement has been organising a musical project each summer for more than two decades. This album is the result! On the CD is religious music …
Stabat Mater by Vivian Fine
Brad Gelineau was so kind to inform me about the Stabat Mater by Vivian Fine. She is an American composer. The composition doesn’t use either the Stabat Mater Dolorosa or the Stabat Mater Speciosa, but instead a poem written about 1940 by Józef Wittlin from Poland. He fled Europe from the Nazis, which explains the …