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’ …
Pergolesi for piano solo
As you can see on my Pergolesi webpage, I have about twenty versions of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater. I have several CD’s with the original classical version for two soloists or two soloists and choir and versions with a full-bodied string orchestra. Very special is the saxophone quartet-version (by Saxo Panico) and the interpretation of …
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 …
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 …
One missing CD less!
J. K. Berger pointed me to several Stabat Mater compositions, not yet in my collection but listed on the page Missing CDs. I will add to my collection the Stabat Mater of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber soon. Here you can listen to (a part of) the compositions. Thanks! Aggazaria (1578 – 1640) Heinrich Ignaz von Biber (1644 …
Stabat Mater by Jens Eriksson
I have got an e-mail from Jens Bragdell Eriksson. He is a church musician and composer from Sweden. His Stabat Mater was performed for the first time on Good Friday March 25th 2016. The choirs name is Södra Sallerups Church Choir and the singers are accompanied by Friis quartet. All twenty stanzas are sung, including the final Amen. I …
Stabat Mater by Vivian Fine
Brad Gelineau was so kind to inform me about the Stabat Mater by Vivian Fine. She is an American composer. The composition doesn’t use either the Stabat Mater Dolorosa or the Stabat Mater Speciosa, but instead a poem written about 1940 by Józef Wittlin from Poland. He fled Europe from the Nazis, which explains the …
New Stabat: Willem Stoppelenburg
Arthur Oostvogel had a nice present for me, on the occasion of the launch of the new 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. It was …
