Frantisek Tuma
About the composer
Frantisek Ignác Antónin Tuma (1704 – 1774) was born in Kostelec nad Orlici, Czechia. He lived the largest part of his life in Vienna, first as director of music for Count Franz Ferdinand Kinsky, later for the widow of Emperor Karl VI. He was an organist and a very good theorbe player. Among his sacred music works we find some 65 masses, 29 psalms and 5 Stabat Maters. Tuma composed in the traditional, quasi-Palestrinian style, as well as in a more baroque style. Not much of his vocal works has been published, but one of these is the “Stabat Mater a 4 voci e basso continuo”. Another one I got from Jan Pivoňka from Czechia in 2015.
About the Stabat Mater
| Date: | ca. 1750 |
| Performers: | Mixed choir and continuo (double bass, organ) |
| Length: | CD 1: 20.51 minutes, CD 2: 21.26 minutes |
| Particulars: | The composition is divided into 11 sections. In the last section Tuma uses a grand fugue, all in the baroque tradition. In the last sections Tuma breaks through the scheme of the poem by adding the first line of the last stanza to the stanza before it. In CD 1 not a choir is used in parts 2 and 9, but a quartet of soloists (see the colorbar). |
| Textual variations: | The "Vatican"-version of the text is used, but with following changes: |
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Information about the recording
| CD1: | Accent ACC 95108 D: Frantisek Tuma: Miserere Dei Meus – Stabat Mater |
| More info: | Dedicated to sacred works of Tuma. I prefer this interpretation of the Stabat Mater, compared to the one at CD 2. Recorded at the Zentrum Bovendonck, Hoeven, the Netherlands, in March 1995. I bought this CD in a record shop in the Netherlands, 1997 |
| Orchestra: | Currende |
| Choir: | Currende |
| Conductor: | Eric van Nevel |
| Soloists: | Christel de Meulder, soprano |
| Other works: | Cum invocarum (psalm 4) |
| Code: | 1997 TUM-01 |
| CD2: | Mitra Cd 16 290: Stabat Mater |
| More info: | Another excursion into the world of Stabat Mater settings. As the CD contains 5 Stabat Mater settings, it should be a “must” for every collector, especially as it has the only Gaffori registration that I know of. |
| Choir: | Figural Chor Köln |
| Conductor: | Richard Mailänder |
| Other works: | Dom Fonteinnes, Gregorian chant |
| Code: | 1998 GAF-01 |
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About the Stabat Mater
| Date: | Unknown |
| Performers: | Mixed choir and orchestra |
| Length: | 18.21 minutes |
| Particulars: | The CD-booklet says that this Stabat Mater was commissioned by Maria Theresia. The composition is divided into seven sections. |
| Textual variations: | The "Vatican"-version of the text is sung. |
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Information about the recording
| CD: | Tuma Stabat Mater MK 0801 – 2 931 |
| More info: | I received this cd from Jan Pivoňka. |
| Orchestra: | Prague Madrigalists |
| Choir: | Prague Madrigalists |
| Conductor: | Pavel Baxa |
| Other works: | Frantisek Tuma: Loreto Litanies, Partita in C minor |
| Code: | TUM2-01 |
