We just added two new French composers to the collection: Eric Tanguy’s Stabat has been written in memory of Vivaldi’s Stabat, which he heard as a child. This piece is for him one of the most beautiful works there is…
Artwork Ton Verstraten
Through the colourful banners at the top, the renewed Ultimate Stabat Mater website has got a new look. The banners are fragments of paintings by Ton Verstraten, a Dutch painter …
Dialogue between Mary and Christ
On this webpage: https://www.aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/04/stond-wel-moder-under-rode.html I discovered a medieval English song: Stand well, Moder, under Rode. You can find this song in several manuscripts after 1250. It is modelled directly on …
Stabat Mater on barrel organ
Mr. and Mrs. Lee from Baltimore were kind enough to inform me about an extraordinary cd with a Stabat Mater: plain song in alternation with organ, the famous restored barrel …
Pergolesi’s dancing Stabat during lockdown
A friend of mine who lives in Cape Town has always been interested in and supportive as for my Stabat Mater website. He told me about a special Pergolesi Stabat …
Stabat Mater by Nicola Burnett Smith and Phil Vernon
It is truly fascinating that even today people are inspired to set the old, medieval Stabat Mater text to music. I always love to discover new composers, both from the …
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New: Stephen Paulus
I just added the Stabat Mater from Stephen Paulus (1949 – 2014), an American composer. It was on the cd American Declarations from the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus conducted by …
Desmond Fisher and Jacopone da Todi
Desmond Fisher was an Irish journalist, who worked as a reporter, correspondent and newspaper editor in the United Kingdom, the United States and in his native Ireland. Desmond got in …
Maltese translation (revised)
In 2018 Tom Dawkes was so kind to send me an e-mail about the Irish Gaelic translation on my site. Tom must have a real talent for languages, as today …
Six new additions!
Robert and Kathy Lee from Baltimore, Maryland have been supportive to my site for a long time. In 2019 I received Jan Engels Stabat Mater as a present and last …
