Karl Jenkins - Stabat Mater

Following the success of This Land of Ours", a set of arrangements for brass band and male voice choir that took Britains 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 composers 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.

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[Luneyune]

Does anyone know the name of the song at 1:03? Thanks! :D

[anettehallstrom]

My dream is to sing Karl Jenkins. And one day, I am going to! ;-)

[MissRubberDukkie]

@Luneyune Sancta Mater

[anettehallstrom]

@sharbas :) Are you getting info from The Really Big Choir? I think that is where I will join someday and sing Karl. In Denmark, hardly anyone knows, let alone sings Karl Jenkins. Tried to change that, but nobody is open for suggestions.

[sharbas]

@anettehallstrom Me too :)



[Luneyune]

@Alfobi thanks! :D

[77BAan]

Wij voeren binnenkort deze prachtige Stabat Mater op van Jenkins!

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Komt allemaal luisteren:

vrijdavond 20 mei in de Geertekerk in Utrecht, Geertekerkhof 23, 3511 XC Utrecht

aanvang 20.00 uur - deuren open: 19.30 uur.

zondagmiddag 22 mei Ionazaal Antropia - Driebergen

Hoofdstraat 8 3972 LA Driebergen

aanvang 15.30 uur - zaal open 14.30 uur

[Alfobi]

@Luneyune Yes, it's Number 5 of Karl Jenkins "Stabat Mater" and it's called "Sancta Mater"

[allycat358]

@Luneyune np