We just added the Stabat Mater by Emperor Leopold I (1640 – 1705), son of emperor Ferdinand III. He lived in Vienna. As a child he was taught the harpsichord and received lessons in composition from his Director of Music at his Court Chapel. He spent the sum of 60,000 gulden yearly on his court …
Arabic Good Friday songs by Fairuz
Mr. Max Elia was so kind as to bring our attention to an album titled Good Friday Eastern Sacred Songs which he bought on an trip to Beirut many years ago. We succeeded in getting the cd and were so impressed by the voice of the soloist (and composer) Fairuz from Lebanon. The tracks are …
New: Rémond and Tanguy
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…
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 organ in the church of St. Chaffrey! In this Stabat Mater, the organ parts sound like a Mozart opera and the final parts, after stanza …
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 past as in the present. That happened some time ago when I came in contact with Mr. Phil Vernon, who came across my site when …
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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 Philip Barnes. This cd was (another) gift from Mr. Hubert Maillard from Switzerland. I was so surprised by the text from Philipp Barnes in the …
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 month (June 2020) he sent me list of six(!) Stabat Mater composers not yet in my collection: Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566), two Stabats: Stabat Mater …
New: Jacob Cooper
Thanks to Christine Read I got acquainted with Jacob Coopers Stabat. She wrote to me: On my way home from work last night, I turned on the local classical radio station in the middle of a composition that was unlike anything I had heard before. I’ve learned that I can often hear something unfamiliar at …
New: Flagello and Carr
Courtesy of Mr. Hubert Maillard from Switzerland I could add two new Stabat Mater compositions to my site. The first one is by Nicolas Flagello (1928-1994) who composed a Stabat Mater just as a part of a composition dedicated to Martin Luther King titled The Passion of Martin Luther King, a combination of five texts …
New: In Sorrow’s Footsteps
I was recently again surprised by a present from Mr. Hubert Maillard from Switzerland. He sent to me the CD by the Marian Consort: In Sorrow’s footsteps. The CD has a new Stabat Mater composer, Gabriel Jackson from the UK. Thank you very much Mr. Maillard! Celebrating its tenth anniversary with its tenth recording, The …
