Since my Ultimate Stabat Mater Website was renewed in 2015, there has been a slideshow in the top right corner. You can see photos of Mary standing near the cross on which Jesus is hanging (Stabat Mater Dolorosa). Many photos were taken in churches all over the world. Often it is the twelfth station of …
Another Finnish translation
I have got a mail from Heikki Hattunen: Hello! Thank you for your website. The Finnish translation on your site is a poetic one. I wish you could add one which is accurate word-by-word. This helped me understand the meaning of each word when preparing to sing the text. This is by Juhani Koivisto (juhani.koivisto@operafin.fi). …
James Dillon
Mrs Rui Sano contacted me about James Dillon, she wrote Accidentally I came across your website when I was looking up something else about Stabat Mater, it’s amazing to learn there are hundreds of Stabat Mater’s composed and recorded! I thought I should drop you a line because I was surprised your list didn’t include …
Liszt and Rossini
Last week Mr. Hendrik Decker was so kind to contact me about Liszt’s transcriptions of Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Mr. Decker wrote: Today I assisted a performance by Albert Martínez-Lorente Romero (trombone) and Francisco Javier Jiménez Martínez (church organ) of an arrangement of the Cujus Animam movement of Rossini’s Stabat Mater by Franz Liszt, in the Jesuit church Iglesia del …
Parcival in Groningen
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 …
