On this page we present two articles on Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater Op. 53 - by Polish Music Information Center (2004) and by Piotr Deptuch (2002). Polish Music Information Center: Karol ...
Music and sadness is an endless and much too studied subject. Does sad music make us feel better by first making us feel worse, like, say, having a tooth pulled? Or do we feel better simply because we ...
Pergolesi’s Stabat mater is a transcendently beautiful and deeply personal musical meditation on suffering and redemption, written by the 26-year-old composer as he himself lay dying. The composer of ...
The words of the Stabat Mater come from an ancient Latin text describing Mary weeping at the cross over her son, Jesus. While the Catholic poem has been set to music by many — from Vivaldi to Arvo ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater” was well received in the 1950s. But it took until this week for the New York Philharmonic to program it. By Garrett ...
Chicago Symphony Orchestra audiences are accustomed to Riccardo Muti’s signing off for the season on a grandly upbeat note, such as he did last year when he closed the subscription series with a ...
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will present Christoph Eschenbach conducting Dvořák's Stabat Mater on November 8, 2024, featuring the Prague Philharmonic Choir. The performance is part of the ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by James MacMillan’s setting of the centuries-old poem will have its American premiere at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. By Ryan Ebright For ...
The impact of the 18th-century choral reworking of a 13th-century hymn about the Virgin Mary's sorrow at the cross. From 2013. Show more The Stabat Mater's imagines the sufferings of the Virgin Mary ...