I was very happy to receive a mail from Tom Dawkes about the transcription that was made by my grandson from the original Irish Gaelich.…
Mr. Carlos Garcia from Portugal kindly contacted me about the Stabat Mater he composed in 2013. Carlos Garcia graduated in Music Education and Jazz (Piano)…
On Saturday September 30th I visited a concert by PRJCT AMSTERDAM in the Philharmonie in Haarlem (the Netherlands). They performed among others the Stabat Mater…
I added two new contemporary composers from Italy: Alberto Schiavo and Stefano Lentini. Alberto Schiavo contacted me to inform about his compostion from 2016. He was…
I had never heard of Bruce Cockburn till Bob Cox sent me an e-mail about his last album Bone on Bone. From Wikipedia I learned…
I just added two CD’s to my collection: Yerevan Women’s Choir of Armenia, singing, among others, the Stabat Mater by David Haladjian, a composer from Armenia.…
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…
About a year ago, I got a message from Mr. Peter Grandcourt. He discovered the original version of the Stabat Mater by Antonin Dvořák. This initial…
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…
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…
I just added the Stabat Mater by Stefaan Vanheertum to my collection. He is a Flemish composer, living in Ghent. On Saturday, April 16th 2016 the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ceriana is one of the places in Italy where the Stabat Mater is sung on Good Friday, during processions through the village. I knew this from…
I have got an e-mail from Jens Bragdell Eriksson. He is a church musician and composer from Sweden. His Stabat Mater was performed for the first time…
When Hans was still alive, we sometimes discussed the possibility of going to Sardinia or Sicily in the Holy Week, watching processions and listening to…
I just added the Stabat Mater by Josef Bohuslav Foerster. Theresia Stössel was so kind to send me this CD: Jubilate Deo from the Chamberchoir of the…
Brad Gelineau was so kind to inform me about the Stabat Mater by Vivian Fine. She is an American composer. The composition doesn’t use either…
I just added three composers to my Stabat Mater collection: Jan Mul, Herman Strategier and Albert de Klerk all recorded on the CD Heavenly Beauty from…
