About the composer
József Karai was born in Budapest, Hungary, November 8, 1927. He is specially dedicated
to choral works and has written about 200 choral settings of Hungarian poems. He uses
texts in different languages, Latin, English, German, Italian and Spanish. He is regarded
as a renewer of choral sound, using aleatory, improvisation and repetition techniques, but
always pays attention to the possibilities of the human voice.
About the Stabat Mater
| Date | 1984 |
| Performers | Mixed choir |
| Length | 6.52 minutes |
| Particulars | The work is divided into three sections, and the first two end in descending glissandos on the words "gladius" and "filio". At some stages use is made of aleatorically resolved passages, producing the effect of a rhythmically delivery of words that sounds like a crowd murmuring. |
| Textual variations | It is not exactly clear to me what stanzas are sung. I detected stanzas 1, 8, 2, 7, 5, 6, 9 and 20, which appear in this order, but I may have missed one. |
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CD information
| CD | Hungaroton HCD 31348: József Karai, Choral Works |
| About this CD | The CD offers a choice from the later choral works of Karai. Recorded in the Catholic Church of Blessed Eusebius in Békásmegyer, Budapest, in 1996. |
| Choir | Budapest Academic Choral Society |
| Conductor | Gábor Hollerung |
| Other works | De Profundis(Psalm 130) Virágsirató (Lament for a Flower) Ein Frülingsabend Evening Waterfall Éjszaka (Night) Ave Maria II Wie fällt der Regen Ave maria stellis Alleluja Hodie Christus natus est Tavaszi ujjongás (Spring Rejoicing) |
| Added | Unknown - KAR 01 |
E-mail:
stabatmater@dds.nl