Arvo Part - Stabat Mater - 1/3

Arvo Part
Stabat Mater (1985) part 1


Stabat Mater dolorósa
iuxta crucem lacrimósa,
dum pendébat Fílius.

Cuius ánimam geméntem,
contristátam et doléntem
pertransívit gládius.

O quam tristis et afflícta
fuit illa benedícta
Mater Unigéniti !

Quae moerébat et dolébat,
pia mater, cum vidébat
nati poenas íncliti.

Quis est homo, qui non fleret,
Christi Matrem si vidéret
in tanto supplício?

Quis non posset contristári,
piam Matrem contemplári
doléntem cum Filio ?

Pro peccátis suae gentis
vidit Jesum in torméntis
et flagéllis subditum.

Vidit suum dulcem natum
moriéntem desolátum,
dum emísit spíritum.

Eia, mater, fons amóris,
me sentíre vim dolóris
fac, ut tecum lúgeam.

Fac, ut árdeat cor meum
in amándo Christum Deum,
ut sibi compláceam.

Sancta Mater, istud agas,
crucifíxi fige plagas
cordi meo válide.

Tui Nati vulneráti,
tam dignáti pro me pati,
poenas mecum dívide.

Fac me vere tecum flere,
Crucifíxo condolére
donec ego víxero.

Iuxta crucem tecum stare,
te libenter sociáre
in planctu desídero.

Virgo vírginum praeclára,
mihi iam non sis amára,
fac me tecum plángere.

Fac, ut portem Christi mortem,
passiónis fac me sortem
et plagas recólere.

Fac me plagis vulnerári,
cruce hac inebriári
et cruóre Fílii.

Flammis ne urar ne succénsus,
per te, Virgo, sim defénsus
in die iudícii.

Fac me cruce custodíri
morte Christi praemuníri,
confovéri grátia.

Quando corpus moriétur,
fac, ut ánimae donétur
paradísi glória. Amen.


Lynne Dawson soprano
David James counter tenor
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor
Gidon Kremer violin
Vladimir Mendelssohn viola
Thomas Demenga cello


Recording:
January 1987
St. John's Church, London


Photo:
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• religious
• vocal

[warchild1942]

Less than 10000 listeners to this magnificent music, and millions for Paris Hilton's trash. Isn't it disappointing?

[Cuoin]

I think there is an effective correlation between advertising and global exposure. Arvo Pärt can't really compete with the media coverage Paris Hilton has gotten. I don't think it is fair to generalise 99% of the world's population into human trash because of this.

[MargarethMargareth]

@warchild1942 We have found a treasure,- they have not. Shhhhhh...don`t tell them... ;-)

[ormenelle]

If there's a thing I like with Arvo Pärt, it's that his music is so profoundly human and intimate that it's not required to believe in anything to be moved by it.

[lameplanet]

@Cuoin I think when we're talking about how much of the world's population like Paris Hilton, it's more like 0.1% rather than 99%. And I'm happy to entertain the notion that 0.1% of the world's population are trash.

[bassrob2]

@Cuoin He didn't say the world's population was human trash. He said Paris Hilton was trash. LOL

[djalternegro]

@Cuoin

on the other hand who is responsible for saying that this piece cannot and/or should not compete with hilton?

perhaps if media giants pushed this, it would obliterate hilton? we could never know because the decisions

made stop something like this from even taking place. so there is a definite human trash component. it just isn,t quite at 99%.

[lyrabella]

This recording is FANTASTIC.

[DelendaEstCarthago1]

@GandervimWoopsnagle What a wonderful observation. I wish more people would understand this. It would be a better world if they did.

God bless you.

[AlisonLentilBeans]

@Cuoin Based on the wording of the comment to which you are responding, the statement was that Paris Hilton's music is trash, not necessarily the people listening to it.

[p81j]

Touching...

I have never heard about Arvo Part until 18/12/2009, when i met for first time with his music in Rudolfinum, Prague (CZE). Czech Philharmonic Orchestra have played one of his piece :-)

And this one is something special....again :-)