In our everlasting quest for Stabat Mater compositions we found ourselves in Bolivia where we stumbled upon much church music written by Jesuits. The Jesuits worked in the heart of South America, at the mission posts of the Chiquitos people. Two centuries they flourished, until fate’s hand forced them to part ways with the Spanish …
Duo Mignarda: lute player and mezzo soprano
Our cordial contact with Mignarda started in the early years of our Ulimate Stabat Mater Website. Duo Mignarda: Ron Andrico, lute player and Donna Stewart, mezzo soprano from Cleveland, Ohio, one of the few professional lute song duos in the United States, specialised in Renaissance music and poetry by concertising, researching and recording. Recently we …
Willem Stoppelenburg (2)
In 2016 Arthur Oostvogel had a nice present for me, on the occasion of the launch of the renewed website: a new Stabat Mater composition, even a Dutch one! This Stabat Mater was composed by Willem Stoppelenburg in 2015. The work is composed for Soprano and Mezzo-soprano, Vocal Ensemble or Chamber Choir and Piano duo. …
New Stabat: Mikhail Bronner
Mikhail Bronner, born in 1952, is a well known contemporary Russian composer. He graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and completed his postgraduate studies in 1981. He is author of more than 100 compositions: operas, ballets, symphonies, choral, vocal and chamber music. Mr Bronner wrote to us: …The suffering of the Mother, who sees …
New: Partridge and Lutz
We just added two modern Stabat Mater compositions: Martin Lutz (2007) and Philip Partridge (2015). …Listening to Lutz Stabat you almost forget that the story is about the dreadful suffering and death of Jesus on the cross seen from his mother’s supremely painful point of view. For me it is a “lovely” and intimate composition …
Mr. Michele Bocchini about his Stabat Mater composition:
We just added the Stabat Mater from Michele Bocchini to the website. Mr. Bocchini was so kind to share his thoughts about his composition with us: Although the prayer opens with the scene: the grieving mother stood in tears at the foot of the cross, while her child was hanging, where the lyrics ask to …
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New Stabat Mater by Richard Prior
…The Ultimate Stabat Mater website is a wonderful resource for scholars, composers, musicians, academics, theologians, lovers of music who appreciate the subject matter – the list is endless! I applaud your husband’s legacy and your own great efforts to continue the initiative… That’s what Richard Prior wrote to us when he contacted us about his …
Latest additions: Sharafyan, Näther and Argüello
We just added three Stabat Mater composers to our Ultimate Stabat Mater Website. The first one by Vache Sharafyan from Armenia, has been composed for male choir and mezzo-soprano. Mr. Sharafyan was kind enough to share two excerpts of his Stabat Mater with us. His Stabat is dark and intensely sad, the male choir is …
Farewell dialogue Mary and Jesus
O mater, dulcis mater, habeo quid dicam, O mother, dear mother, I have something to tell you. Thus the dialogue begins of Jesus on the cross with his mother Mary. It has been set to music by Wenzel Gunther Jacob, 1685 – 1734. A renowned composer, not only in his own country. Mr. Joop Volp, organ player …
Latest addition: Tyler Versluis
We just added the Stabat Mater by Tyler Versluis. It was composed for the Lenten season at Saint Matthew’s Anglican Church in Etobicoke, Canada in 2022. Like many other composers, his motivation behind composing a Stabat Mater lays in his desire to take part in a tradition, both religious and musical. The gorgeous settings of …
