It is 8 pm and silence descends on the main auditorium of the Oosterpoort Theatre in Groningen (The Netherlands). On stage, a few hundred young people aged between 16 and 18 are lined up behind an orchestra. The youths are the students of the 10th, 11th and 12th grade of the Parcival College in Groningen, …
Stabat Sistine Chapel, Live-streamed
Mr. Marc Puckett from Oregon (US) was so kind to inform me about the performance of Sir James MacMillan’s Stabat Mater by British choir The Sixteen on April 22th. This concert will be live-streamed from the Sistine Chapel of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. It will be the first ever concert to be live-streamed from the Vatican! Read …
The end of an era
Visiting Oirschot for the annual Stabat Mater event has been a real highlight of the calendar, since its inception in 1999. This year the Stabat Mater foundation celebrated their 20th anniversary on the 17th and 18th March. We enjoyed the romantic Stabat Mater by Rheinberger and the Dutch premiere of James MacMillans composition, composed in 2016. The …
Gaudium et Musica on Menorca
In 2010 I added the Stabat Mater by Marco Rosano to my collection. Marco Rosano was so kind to send me the studio recording as well as the Australian recording on DVD. The audio cd is available on Amazon.com. I love this composition very much and I was so surprised to get an e-mail from Ana Gomila …
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 …
Irish Gaelic 3.0
I was very happy to receive a mail from Mr. D. about the transcription that was made by my grandson Cian from the original Irish Gaelic. See Irish Gaelic 2.0. This is what he wrote to me: …I was delighted to come upon it (my site, ho) by chance. I had been listening to a …
Carlos Garcia, Portugese composer
Mr. Carlos Garcia from Portugal kindly contacted me about the Stabat Mater he composed in 2013. Carlos Garcia graduated in Music Education and Jazz (Piano) from the School of Music of Lisbon (ESML – Lisbon College of Music). He studied clarinet, organ, composition analysis and techniques, and orchestral conducting. He worked at the School of …
What a shame!
On Saturday September 30th I visited a concert by PRJCT AMSTERDAM in the Philharmonie in Haarlem (the Netherlands). They performed among others the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, Maarten Engeltjes and Rosemary Joshua were the soloists. Of course, I always love to listen to Stabat Mater concerts but I had chosen this performance because of the …
Stabat Mater and Stab at Matter
I had never heard of Bruce Cockburn till Bob Cox sent me an e-mail about his last album Bone on Bone. From Wikipedia I learned Bruce Cockburn is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics that reveal a passion for human rights, …
New: MacMillan and Haladjian
I just added two CD’s to my collection: Yerevan Women’s Choir of Armenia, singing, among others, the Stabat Mater by David Haladjian, a composer from Armenia. His Stabat Mater is a requiem for the victims of the earthquake which struck Armenia in December 1988. The work was composed for the Yerevan Women’s Choir and was first …
