The board of the Ultimate Stabat Mater Website foundation wishes to thank the Dutch foundation for Sacred Music for their generous donation . This made it possible to renew the Ultimate Stabat Mater Website. The predecessor of the foundation for Sacred Music, the Stabat Mater Foundation, organised Stabat Mater concerts from 1998 to 2018 every …
Dialogue between Mary and Christ
On this webpage: https://www.aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/04/stond-wel-moder-under-rode.html I discovered a medieval English song: Stand well, Moder, under Rode. You can find this song in several manuscripts after 1250. It is modelled directly on the 11-stanza Latin sequence Stabat juxta Christi crucem.The song invites, like the Stabat Mater, to sympathize with Mary and her Son, dying on the cross (rode). …
Stabat Mater on barrel organ
Mr. and Mrs. Lee from Baltimore were kind enough to inform me about an extraordinary cd with a Stabat Mater: plain song in alternation with organ, the famous restored barrel organ in the church of St. Chaffrey! In this Stabat Mater, the organ parts sound like a Mozart opera and the final parts, after stanza …
Pergolesi’s dancing Stabat during lockdown
A friend of mine who lives in Cape Town has always been interested in and supportive as for my Stabat Mater website. He told me about a special Pergolesi Stabat Mater performance with dance by Cape Town Opera, Cape Town City Ballet and Camerata Tinta Barocca. This project provides an emotional and artistic response to …
Stabat Mater by Nicola Burnett Smith and Phil Vernon
It is truly fascinating that even today people are inspired to set the old, medieval Stabat Mater text to music. I always love to discover new composers, both from the past as in the present. That happened some time ago when I came in contact with Mr. Phil Vernon, who came across my site when …
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New: Stephen Paulus
I just added the Stabat Mater from Stephen Paulus (1949 – 2014), an American composer. It was on the cd American Declarations from the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus conducted by Philip Barnes. This cd was (another) gift from Mr. Hubert Maillard from Switzerland. I was so surprised by the text from Philipp Barnes in the …
Desmond Fisher and Jacopone da Todi
Desmond Fisher was an Irish journalist, who worked as a reporter, correspondent and newspaper editor in the United Kingdom, the United States and in his native Ireland. Desmond got in touch with me after he stumbled upon The Ultimate Stabat Mater Site during his research for his book Stabat Mater, the Mystery Hymn. Desmond Fisher …
Maltese translation (revised)
In 2018 Tom Dawkes was so kind to send me an e-mail about the Irish Gaelic translation on my site. Tom must have a real talent for languages, as today I received a revised translation of the Maltese translation on my site! This is what he wrote to me: …listening this morning to a programme …
Six new additions!
Robert and Kathy Lee from Baltimore, Maryland have been supportive to my site for a long time. In 2019 I received Jan Engels Stabat Mater as a present and last month (June 2020) he sent me list of six(!) Stabat Mater composers not yet in my collection: Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566), two Stabats: Stabat Mater …
New: Jacob Cooper
Thanks to Christine Read I got acquainted with Jacob Coopers Stabat. She wrote to me: On my way home from work last night, I turned on the local classical radio station in the middle of a composition that was unlike anything I had heard before. I’ve learned that I can often hear something unfamiliar at …
