And again I can delete a name from my list of Missing CDs: Nicola Logroscino! Thanks to Mr. Hubert Maillard from Switzerland. He was so kind to send me, as a gift, this CD with Stabat Mater by Nicola Logroscino, an Italian composer from the 17th century. His Stabat Mater reminds me very much of …
Jan Engel
I just added Jan Engels Stabat Mater. For a long time Jan Engel was on my list of missing CDs. Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Lee from Baltimore I could add this CD to my collection. He sent the CD to me as a gift. He wrote: …I happened upon the Stabat Mater site many …
Via Crucis
I just added a CD Via Crucis, a composition by Dick Le Mair, a Dutch composer. In part four (the fourth station of the cross: Jesus meets his mother), he uses the first Stanza of Stabat Mater. This part reminds me of the introduction of Cantate 106 (Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit) by Johann …
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’ …
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 …
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.
Norbert Rosseau, composer 263
I just added the Stabat Mater by Norbert Rosseau. Rosseau is composer number 263. He was, till now, on Hans’ list of missing CDs. The CD is the recording of the annual concert organised by the Dutch Stabat Mater Foundation in the Netherlands (Oirschot). The Stabat Mater by Rosseau has never been performed in the …
Latest additions: Berney and Biber
In August 2016 I added two, totally different composers: Jérôme Berney from Switzerland (born in Canada, 1971) and Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber from Bohemia (nowadays the Czech Republic) who lived in the 17th century. Jérôme Berney is a composer and a drummer. In his compositions he mixes classical and jazz style. He was so …