During the forty days of Lent (from March 6th till April 22th 2019) there will be a very special art project in Amsterdam: Art Stations of the Cross, fourteen stations of the cross through the center of Amsterdam. The work of leading artists from home and abroad gives a contemporary translation to the suffering of …
A special leaf
Last week I got a very special mail from Mr. Keith Stroup. He recently purchased an orphaned leaf from a Flemish Book of Hours, which has a sizable portion of The Stabat Mater text scribed upon it. The leaf had been matted decades ago with the only information stating that it was scribed in Flanders ca. …
Origins of Stabat Mater Latin text
Mr. Hubert Beckwith was so kind to contact me; he provided me with new information, an addition to the webpage Stabat Mater text. On this page Hans has written about the origins of Stabat Mater text: …The oldest reference in a liturgical source is a Breviary from Arezzo, a manuscript dated 1417. .. That seems to …
Spirit, Strength & Sorrow
I just added the CD Spirit, Strength & Sorrow by The Sixteen with Harry Christophers. It includes six (!) settings of the Stabat Mater text, three settings are new ones by: Alissa Firsova (British with Russian parents), Tõnu Kõrvits, from Estonia and Matthew Martin, from England. Spirit Strength and Sorrow is the result of the commissioning collaboration …
New Stabat: Pormeister-Rips
Mr. Pavel Brochin from Germany, was so kind to inform me about the Stabat Mater composition by Piret Pormeister-Rips from Estonia. Mr Brochins choir, Audienda-Choir Krefeld, was invited to take part in the 5th Rhine-Westphalia Choral Festival in Krefeld. He was looking for a bigger contemporary Estonian composition, and his friends recommended him Piret Rips’ …
Rossini
I think Rossini was one of the first composers Hans added to his collection. At this moment I have four CD’s with the complete performance of Rossini’s Stabat Mater. The fifth one is Liszt transcription of the tenor aria Cujus Animam Gementem, on piano by Frederic Lamond. I have always loved Rossini; the last 15 …
Since my Ultimate Stabat Mater Website was renewed in 2015, there has been a slideshow in the top right corner. You can see photos of Mary standing near the cross on which Jesus is hanging (Stabat Mater Dolorosa). Many photos were taken in churches all over the world. Often it is the twelfth station of …
Another Finnish translation
I have got a mail from Heikki Hattunen: Hello! Thank you for your website. The Finnish translation on your site is a poetic one. I wish you could add one which is accurate word-by-word. This helped me understand the meaning of each word when preparing to sing the text. This is by Juhani Koivisto (juhani.koivisto@operafin.fi). …
James Dillon
Mrs Rui Sano contacted me about James Dillon, she wrote Accidentally I came across your website when I was looking up something else about Stabat Mater, it’s amazing to learn there are hundreds of Stabat Mater’s composed and recorded! I thought I should drop you a line because I was surprised your list didn’t include …
Liszt and Rossini
Last week Mr. Hendrik Decker was so kind to contact me about Liszt’s transcriptions of Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Mr. Decker wrote: Today I assisted a performance by Albert Martínez-Lorente Romero (trombone) and Francisco Javier Jiménez Martínez (church organ) of an arrangement of the Cujus Animam movement of Rossini’s Stabat Mater by Franz Liszt, in the Jesuit church Iglesia del …
