About the composer
Peter Zagar was born in 1961 in Bratislava, Slovakia. He studied composition at the
Acadamy of Music and Drama, then worked some years as recording supervisor at the
Slovakian radio and as editor for the Slovak Philharmonic. Since 1994 he works as a
free-lance artist.
| Date | 1988 |
| Performers | Mixed Choir |
| Length | 8.32 minutes |
| Particulars | Zagar himself writes: "I wrote Stabat Mater after the
sheer, almost mystic beauty of plain-chant, which I consider to be one of the world's
miracles. Plain-chant demonstrates that the quality of musical experience depends greatly
not on the expressed, but on what is left unexpressed". This is reflected in his music, as in the first stanza the melody of the chant is twice used. |
| Textual variations | The "Vatican"-version of the text is used, but only the stanzas 1, 12, 17 and 20. |
| CD | Kultur Kontakt SF 0017 2131: De Profundis III |
| About this CD | Third CD in a project "De Profundis", sponsored by
the Ministry of Education and Art of Austria. Recorded in Slovakia, probably in 1993. |
| Choir | Slovak Chamber Choir of SLUK |
| Conductor | Pavol Procháska |
| Other works | Egon Krák: Pulcherrima ad honorem Sancti Augustini
memoriae Vladimír Godár: Sequence for Violin and Piano Martin Burlas: 7th Day Record Iris Szeghy: Hommage ŕ Rodin |
| Added | ZAG 01 |
E-mail:
stabatmater@dds.nl