About the composer
Frantisek Ignác Antónin Tuma (1704 - 1774) was born in Kostelec nad Orlici, Czechia. He
lived the largest part of his life in Vienna, first as director of music for Count Franz
Ferdinand Kinsky, later for the widow of Emperor Karl VI. He was an organist and a very
good theorbe player. Among his sacred music works we find some 65 masses, 29 psalms and 5
Stabat Maters. Tuma composed in the traditional, quasi-Palestrinian style, as well as in a
more baroque style. Not much of his vocal works has been published, but one of these is
the "Stabat Mater a 4 voci e basso continuo"
| Date | ±1750? |
| Performers | Mixed choir and continuo (double bass, organ) |
| Length | 20.51 minutes (CD 1), resp. 21.26 minutes (CD 2) |
| Particulars | The composition is divided into 11 sections. In the last section Tuma uses a grand fugue, all in the baroque tradition. oem by adding the first line of the last stanza to the stanza before it. In CD 1 not a choir is used in parts 2 and 9, but a quartet of soloists (see the colorbar). |
| Textual variations | The "Vatican"-version of the text is
used, but with following changes: - Stanza 6, line 2: not "Christi Matrem" but "Pia Matrem" - Stanza 18, lines 1 and 2: not "Flammis ne urar succensus, per Te, Virgo, sim defensus" but "Flammi orci ne succendar, per Te, Virgo, fac defendar" |
| CD 1 | Accent ACC 95108 D: Frantisek Tuma: Miserere Dei Meus - Stabat Mater |
| About this CD | Dedicated to sacred works of Tuma. I prefer this
interpretation of the Stabat Mater, compared to the one at CD 2. Recorded at the Zentrum Bovendonck, Hoeven, the Netherlands, in March 1995. I bought this CD in a record shop in the Netherlands, 1997 |
| Orchestra | Currende |
| Choir | Currende |
| Soloists | Cristel de Meulder, soprano Sytse Buwalda, countertenor Jan Van Elsacker, tenor Job Boswinkel, bass |
| Conductor | Erik van Nevel |
| Other works | Cum invocarum (psalm 4) In te Domini speravi (psalm 70) Miserere Mei Deus (psalm 50) |
| Addded | 1997 (TUM 01) |
| CD 2 | Mitra Cd 16 290: Stabat Mater |
| About this CD | Another excursion into the world of Stabat Mater settings. As
the CD contains 5 Stabat Mater settings, it should be a "must" for every
collector, especially as it has the only Gaffori registration that I know of. Recorded at the St.Martinus church, Euskirchen-Kirchheim, in July 1995. I bought this CD in a record shop in the Netherlands, 1998 |
| Orchestra | |
| Choir | Figural Chor Köln |
| Conductor | Richard Mailänder |
| Other works | Dom Fonteinnes, Gregorian chant Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Stabat Mater Franchino Gaffori, Stabat Mater Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, Stabat Mater |
| Added | 1998 GAF 01 |
E-mail:
stabatmater@dds.nl