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 composed …
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 …
Irish Gaelic 2.0
In the “beginning” of the internet it was not easy to publish translations of the Stabat Mater in foreign languages with a foreign alphabet or characters. Hans used to put these translations to his site as a picture of the text. In the past the Russian translation was only a picture. In this way the text could …
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 …
Norwegian translation
Karl Aksel was so kind to inform and correct me about a Norwegian translation Hans found on the site of Eirik Sørborg. Hans did not know the author of the translation. Karl Aksel wrote to me: …I noticed a translation from Eirik Sørborg’s now defunct site at www.viten.no, and you mention that you did not know who the …
Stefaan Vanheertum
Stefaan Vanheertum, a composer from Ghent in Belgium, was so kind to invite me for the world Premiere of his Stabat Mater composition. He composed this work in 2010 – 2012. On his site Stefaan announces the concert himself: The Stabat Mater uses the Latin text but projects it to the present. This piece is not …
