On Saturday September 30th I visited a concert by PRJCT AMSTERDAM in the Philharmonie in Haarlem (the Netherlands). They performed among others the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, Maarten Engeltjes and Rosemary Joshua were the soloists. Of course, I always love to listen to Stabat Mater concerts but I had chosen this performance because of the …
Two Italian Stabats
I added two new contemporary composers from Italy: Alberto Schiavo and Stefano Lentini. Alberto Schiavo contacted me to inform about his compostion from 2016. He was so kind to send me the files and some more information. Lentini’s Stabat Mater(2013), has been composed for the movie The Grandmaster (2013) by Wong Kar-Wei. It is only 3.02 minutes! The …
Stabat Mater and Stab at Matter
I had never heard of Bruce Cockburn till Bob Cox sent me an e-mail about his last album Bone on Bone. From Wikipedia I learned Bruce Cockburn is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics that reveal a passion for human rights, …
New: MacMillan and Haladjian
I just added two CD’s to my collection: Yerevan Women’s Choir of Armenia, singing, among others, the Stabat Mater by David Haladjian, a composer from Armenia. His Stabat Mater is a requiem for the victims of the earthquake which struck Armenia in December 1988. The work was composed for the Yerevan Women’s Choir and was first …
New Stabat from Italy
Recently I got a mail from Paola Battoni, a chorister of Coro femminile da Camera Francis Poulenc, a ladies choir. She informed me that her conductor, Mr Roberto Braglia Orlandini is also a composer and he has composed a moving stabat Mater they have performed several times. She wrote to me: Here are the information …
Oirschot 2017 Dvořák piano version
About a year ago, I got a message from Mr. Peter Grandcourt. He discovered the original version of the Stabat Mater by Antonin Dvořák. This initial version for four soloists, choir, and piano was composed by Dvořák after the death of his daughter Josefa in 1875. He then put the work aside without orchestrating it. Soon …
Electronic Stabat Mater
Mr. Alessandro Ravi informed me about a new Stabat Mater, composed and performed by Raffaele Serra. Raffaele was born in 1948 and lives in Milan. Composer and sound researcher, he released more than 30 albums. In the early 70’s he started to experiment with Electronic Music based on analogue synthesizers, tapes and other devices. He …
Bednall, Alfeyev and Auerbach
In the last two weeks I added three new composers. Mr. Hubert Maillard was so kind to inform me about the Stabat Maters by David Bednall (England) and Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev (Russia). I bought these CDs on the internet at Presto Classical. On the moment, the Alfeyev Stabat Mater is my favorite one. I also added …
Latest addition: Stefaan Vanheertum
I just added the Stabat Mater by Stefaan Vanheertum to my collection. He is a Flemish composer, living in Ghent. On Saturday, April 16th 2016 the new Stabat Mater composed by Stefaan Vanheertum was performed and recorded. I visited the concert and loved it. The CD can be ordered through his site.
Stabat Mater by Craig Bloomfield
I just listened to the Stabat Mater by Craig Bloomfield and I loved it very much. I like the intensity of the singers, of the choir as well of the soprano. C. Alistair Bloomfield was born in 1977 and he is of Jamaican nationality. The Stabat Mater was, however, composed in 1998 in Athens, Georgia …
