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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kostas Smoriginas (baritone) Berlin Radio Chorus Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Gijs Leenaars (chorus director) Edward ...

Historical ensemble Figure and an excellent cast explore grief, compassion and hope through five women representing multiple generations Performed by Figure, and the brainchild of the ensemble’s ...

It was singing in a children’s’ choir in Prague that gave Jirí Belohlávek a life-long love of Dvorák’s dark and lyrical Stabat Mater. Now a recording of the work forms a noble testament to the Czech ...

There's much more to Pergolesi than his famous Stabat Mater and, even though this stupendous disc opens with one of the great recordings of that work, it's the two psalm settings, the monumental ...

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 ...