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 …
New Stabat from Italy
Recently I got a mail from Paola Battoni, a chorister of Coro femminile da Camera Francis Poulenc, a ladies choir. She informed me that her conductor, Mr Roberto Braglia Orlandini is also a composer and he has composed a moving stabat Mater they have performed several times. She wrote to me: Here are the information …
Electronic Stabat Mater
Mr. Alessandro Ravi informed me about a new Stabat Mater, composed and performed by Raffaele Serra. Raffaele was born in 1948 and lives in Milan. Composer and sound researcher, he released more than 30 albums. In the early 70’s he started to experiment with Electronic Music based on analogue synthesizers, tapes and other devices. He …
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 …
Stabat Mater by Craig Bloomfield
I just listened to the Stabat Mater by Craig Bloomfield and I loved it very much. I like the intensity of the singers, of the choir as well of the soprano. C. Alistair Bloomfield was born in 1977 and he is of Jamaican nationality. The Stabat Mater was, however, composed in 1998 in Athens, Georgia …
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 …
