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 …

I just added the Stabat Mater from Robert Hejnar, a composer from Czechia. I received this Cd from Jan Pivoňka from Czechia. Thanks a lot!

Every year, two weeks before Easter, the Stabat Mater Foundation organises three Stabat Mater concerts in St. Petrus church in Oirschot in the Netherlands: Friday March …

I just added the Stabat Mater from a completely unknown Spanish composer: Miguel de Ambiela. It is a part of a very special CD with a …

Arthur Oostvogel had a nice present for me, on the occasion of the launch of the new website: a new Stabat Mater composition, even a …

On December 28th, 2005 the  initiator of the site, Hans van der Velden, my husband, passed away. After his death I continued maintaining the site and collecting Stabat Mater CDs. The desire …

In October 2015 I visited the Westerkerk in Amsterdam for a really spectacular concert. The famous countertenor Andreas Scholl performed together with the Vavox group …