Pergolesi’s Stabat mater is a transcendently beautiful and deeply personal musical meditation on suffering and redemption, written by the 26-year-old composer as he himself lay dying. The composer of ...

Premiered in Paris in 1842, Rossini’s Stabat Mater was immediately popular with the public. Deemed by some to be too operatic or even lightweight to be taken seriously as sacred music, Rossini brushed ...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra audiences are accustomed to Riccardo Muti’s signing off for the season on a grandly upbeat note, such as he did last year when he closed the subscription series with a ...

Music and sadness is an endless and much too studied subject. Does sad music make us feel better by first making us feel worse, like, say, having a tooth pulled? Or do we feel better simply because we ...

The words of the Stabat Mater come from an ancient Latin text describing Mary weeping at the cross over her son, Jesus. While the Catholic poem has been set to music by many — from Vivaldi to Arvo ...

It was singing in a children’s’ choir in Prague that gave Jirí Belohlávek a life-long love of Dvorák’s dark and lyrical Stabat Mater. Now a recording of the work forms a noble testament to the Czech ...

Vladimir Jurowski, the much sought-after conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, discusses his personal interpretation of Szymanowski's Stabat Mater in an exclusive interview with Culture.pl.

The impact of the 18th-century choral reworking of a 13th-century hymn about the Virgin Mary's sorrow at the cross. From 2013. Show more The Stabat Mater's imagines the sufferings of the Virgin Mary ...