We just added two modern Stabat Mater compositions: Martin Lutz (2007) and Philip Partridge (2015). …Listening to Lutz Stabat you almost forget that the story is about the dreadful suffering and death of Jesus on the cross seen from his mother’s supremely painful point of view. For me it is a “lovely” and intimate composition with the atmosphere of a more or less hushed and sad look back at what happened…

…The composition from Philip Partridge is primarily vocal, sensitive and compassionate. It does not seek to stage the text, but to enter a contemplative and meditative dimension to access inner peace once transcended the expression of pain. Musically, the harmony is based on the range that the composer multiplies and overlaps in different ways, as the search for a state of stability and rest…