Last week Mr. Hendrik Decker was so kind to contact me about Liszt’s transcriptions of Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Mr. Decker wrote: Today I assisted a performance by Albert Martínez-Lorente Romero (trombone) and Francisco Javier Jiménez Martínez (church organ) of an arrangement of the Cujus Animam movement of Rossini’s Stabat Mater by Franz Liszt, in the Jesuit church Iglesia del …
Parcival in Groningen
It is 8 pm and silence descends on the main auditorium of the Oosterpoort Theatre in Groningen (The Netherlands). On stage, a few hundred young people aged between 16 and 18 are lined up behind an orchestra. The youths are the students of the 10th, 11th and 12th grade of the Parcival College in Groningen, …
Stabat Sistine Chapel, Live-streamed
Mr. Marc Puckett from Oregon (US) was so kind to inform me about the performance of Sir James MacMillan’s Stabat Mater by British choir The Sixteen on April 22th. This concert will be live-streamed from the Sistine Chapel of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. It will be the first ever concert to be live-streamed from the Vatican! Read …
The end of an era
Visiting Oirschot for the annual Stabat Mater event has been a real highlight of the calendar, since its inception in 1999. This year the Stabat Mater foundation celebrated their 20th anniversary on the 17th and 18th March. We enjoyed the romantic Stabat Mater by Rheinberger and the Dutch premiere of James MacMillans composition, composed in 2016. The …