I added two new contemporary composers from Italy: Alberto Schiavo and Stefano Lentini. Alberto Schiavo contacted me to inform about his compostion from 2016. He was so kind to send me the files and some more information. Lentini’s Stabat Mater(2013), has been composed for the movie The Grandmaster (2013) by Wong Kar-Wei. It is only 3.02 minutes! The Grandmaster is a Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts drama film based on the life story of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man. The film was directed and written by Wong Kar-wai and stars Tony Leung as Ip Man.

I just added the Stabat Mater by Josef Bohuslav Foerster. Theresia Stössel was so kind to send me this CD: Jubilate Deo from the Chamberchoir of the German Catholic Youth Movement. This Movement has been organising a musical project each summer for more than two decades. This album is the result! On the CD is religious music from several ages: Mendelsohn, Victoria, Olsson, Bruckner and other composers. The Stabat Mater by Foerster is for mixed choir and organ.

I just added three composers to my Stabat Mater collection: Jan Mul, Herman Strategier and Albert de Klerk all recorded on the CD Heavenly Beauty from the Netherlands. It is the recording of the 17th concert organised by the Dutch Stabat Mater Foundation, at the Sint Petrus Church in Oirschot, in March 2015. Hendrik Andriessen is on this CD with his Miroir de Peine, a composition for soprano and organ. He wrote this song-cycle in 1923 as a setting of texts by the French poet Henri Ghéon. The sonnets deal with the suffering of Christ, but viewed from the perspective of his mother Mary. I did not add this piece to my collection, I have doubted, but for me it is not a Stabat Mater. The picture below (four composers) is from the CD-booklet.

I just added the Stabat Mater from Robert Hejnar, a composer from Czechia. I received this Cd from Jan Pivoňka from Czechia. Thanks a lot!

I just added the Stabat Mater from a completely unknown Spanish composer: Miguel de Ambiela. It is a part of a very special CD with a very special title: La Oreja de Zurbaràn. Zurbaràn was a Spanish painter from the 17th century. “The ear of Zurbaràn” was produced by Paul van Nevel and his Huelgas Ensemble at the occasion of an exhibition of Zurbaràns paintings in 2014 in Brussels. Ignace pointed me to this CD. I bought the CD in 2014 at JPC in Germany. The CD-booklet contains several pictures of the paintings from Zurbaràn: