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Karl Jenkins - Stabat Mater | EMI 5002832

Karl Jenkins - Stabat Mater

Label: EMI

Cat No: 5002832

Barcode: 5099950028320

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 10th March 2008

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Contents

Artists

Belinda Sykes (vocal)
Jurguta Adamonyte (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus
EMO Ensemble

Conductor

Pasi Hyokki

Works

Jenkins, Karl

Stabat Mater

Artists

Belinda Sykes (vocal)
Jurguta Adamonyte (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus
EMO Ensemble

Conductor

Pasi Hyokki

About

Following the success of “This Land of Ours”, a set of arrangements for brass band and male voice choir that took Britain’s most popular living composer back to his Welsh roots, Karl Jenkins returns with a new work to complement his massively successful “Requiem” and “Armed Man”. The at once emotional, modern, culturally diverse and universally accessible style that has come to characterise the composer’s sound is perfectly exemplified in this poignant new choral album.

Stabat Mater is a thirteenth century Roman Catholic sequence attributed to Jacopone da Todi. It has been set to music by many composers, among them Haydn, Dvorak, Vivaldi, Rossini, Pergolesi, Stanford, Gounod, Penderecki, Poulenc, Szymanowski, Alessandro Scarlatti (1724), Domenico Scarlatti (1715), Pedro de Escobar, Arvo Pärt and Giuseppe Verdi. Its title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat Mater Dolorosa ("The sorrowful mother was standing"). The hymn, one of the most powerful and immediate of medieval poems, meditates on the suffering of Mary, Jesus Christ's mother, during his crucifixion.

Karl's setting extends this to a universal depiction of grief by using ancient text from the area (Holy Land/Middle East) that will be sung in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic (the lingua franca of the period) and a contemporary poem, sung in English. The orchestration includes instruments indigenous to the area, percussion such as the darbuka & riq and the woodwind duduk.

There are two soloists, both female singers, Jurgita Adamonyte and Belinda Sykes, who doubles on duduk or mey, a middle eastern ancient woodwind instrument.

Track listing:
1. Cantus lacrimosus
2. Incantation
3. Vidit Jesum in tormentis
4. Lament
5. Sancta Mater
6. Now my life is only weeping.
7. And the Mother did weep
8. Virgo virginum
9. Are you lost out in darkness?
10. Ave verum
11. Fac, ut portem Christi mortem
12. Paradisi gloria

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