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 …
Missing Cds: Bernasconi
On the web page Missing Cds you will find a list of over 400 composers who may have composed a Stabat Mater that never has been recorded or even never has been performed. It always makes me happy to delete one from the list like I recently did with Howard Blake and Nicola Logroscino. Andrea …
Stabat Mater in film
Mrs Stine Balslev from Denmark pointed my attention to the soundtrack of a German TV mini series Eight Days. She thought most of the lyrics on the album are from the Stabat Mater text. She recognised a few words and wanted to look up the full text – that was how she found the website. …
Stabat Mater, Rock Opera?
Thanks to Mr. Antonio Nardi from Italy I learned about a new Stabat Mater ‘style’, composed by the Italian singer-songwriter, composer and television host, Franco Simone. Listening to his Symphonic Rock Opera Stabat Mater I was completely flabbergasted by the melodies, the rhythm, the voices, the intensity! Its accessibility is striking, a modern opera with …
New: Flagello and Carr
Courtesy of Mr. Hubert Maillard from Switzerland I could add two new Stabat Mater compositions to my site. The first one is by Nicolas Flagello (1928-1994) who composed a Stabat Mater just as a part of a composition dedicated to Martin Luther King titled The Passion of Martin Luther King, a combination of five texts …
Federico Bruno
Federico Bruno contacted me and informed me about the special history of his Stabat Mater composition. Federico was born in Rome and when he was a child he sang as a soloist in the Choir of the Sistine Chapel. After his childhood he has been writing and recording songs that combine a blend of pop, …
New: In Sorrow’s Footsteps
I was recently again surprised by a present from Mr. Hubert Maillard from Switzerland. He sent to me the CD by the Marian Consort: In Sorrow’s footsteps. The CD has a new Stabat Mater composer, Gabriel Jackson from the UK. Thank you very much Mr. Maillard! Celebrating its tenth anniversary with its tenth recording, The …
Pergolesi’s Stabat with saxophones
I would like to write a post, at last, about my favourite ensemble playing Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. It has been a long time (I think in 2006) since I visited their performance for the first time. Since then I have visited their concerts almost every year, in many churches all over the Netherlands, in the …
PIETÀ from Portugal
I got in touch with Mr. Eugénio Rodrigues, a Portuguese composer who lived and studied in the USA before moving back to Portugal, where he lives in Lousã, the town he grew up in. For information on his work and his biography, please visit his website at http://eugeniorodrigues.com/?cat=65. In 2002, Eugénio was deeply impressed by …
