About the composer
Ramona Luengen was born in Vancouver, Canada, in 1960. She studied composition and piano
at the University of British Columbia and received her doctorate in 1996 from the
University of Toronto. She has been conductor of many renowned choirs, at the moment the
Vocal Collegium Musicum Ensemble of the University of British Columbia. Her compositions
are mainly in the choral genre and her Stabat Mater composition for mezzo-soprano, women's
choir and orchestra was awarded "Choral Event of the Year 1995" by the
Association of Canadian Choral Conductors. She works also as an instructor of 20th century
music at the Simon Fraser University.
| Date | 1995 |
| Performers | Mezzo-soprano, female choir and orchestra |
| Length | 12.13 minutes (excerpt on this CD), over 80 minutes (complete work) |
| Particulars | As more modern composers have done, Ramona Luengen used the
Stabat Mater as a frame work in which other texts were inserted. Presented here is only
the fifth interpolation on a text by Edith Sitwell: A Mother to her dead Child Though the complete work is monumental, it is not the longest Stabat Mater ever, as the CD insert suggests. |
| Textual variations | As the CD does not contain any parts of the Stabat Mater text, no comment is made. |
As the work is incompletely recorded and does contain only one part, no colorbar is made.
| CD | CBC Records SMCD 5191: From the Diary of Anne Frank |
| About this CD | The title of this disc is a somewhat misleading. Though one
of the pieces bears that title, the CD is in fact a tribute to the singer, mezzo-soprano
Judith Forst, two of the pieces having been expressly composed for her. I bought this CD on the Internet, Amazon.com, 2001 |
| Orchestra | CBC Vancouver Orchestra |
| Conductor | Mario Bernardi |
| Soloists | Judith Forst, mezzo-soprano |
| Other works | Malcolm Forsyth: Sun Songs Oskar Morawetz: From the Diary of Anne Frank John Oliver: Unseen Rain |
| Added | 2001 (LUE 01) |
E-mail:
stabatmater@dds.nl