Piet Swerts
About the composer
Piet Swerts was born in 1960. He works at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven, Belgium. This was originally a school for church music, but nowadays it offers pedagogical studies, teacher training, and a conservatoire program. The institute has its own concert hall, where students can perform. During his studies at the institute, Swerts was confronted annually with the tradition of passion plays, and decided to write one himself. In his own words: Not on the text of St. John, or St. Matthew, because already done by Bach, not St. Luke, because done by Penderecki, but St. Mark, because it’s the shortest one. The result was the Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Marcum.
About the Stabat Mater
| Date: | 1988 |
| Performers: | Mezzo-soprano and orchestra |
| Length: | 4.58 minutes |
| Particulars: | This passion music is composed for a large orchestra, including seven percussionists and a wind machine, a choir and four soloists. The text is based on the Gospel according to St.Marcus, with fragments of Luke and Matthew added, and some psalm fragments as interludes. Principally, there are no arias. The text is sung as recitatives. An abridged Stabat Mater is one of the interventions. |
| Textual variations: | The "Vatican"-version of the text is used, but only the stanzas 1, 8, 11, 14, 16, 17 and 20 |
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Information about the recording
| CD: | Vox Temporis VTP CD92 016/017 (2 CD’s): Piet Swerts, Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Marcum |
| More info: | A recording of the Marcus Passion of Swerts. Recorded at the Lemmens Institute of Louvain, Belgium, in December 1993. |
| Orchestra: | Orchestra of the Lemmens Institute |
| Choir: | Chorus of the Lemmens Institute |
| Conductor: | Piet Swerts |
| Soloists: | Lucienne van Deijck, mezzo-soprano |
| Code: | SWE-01 |
