[Guest]

Wow, Anna sure seems to have come a long way from this:

 

[quack]

I usually can't answer questions like this but this one is easy, Dvorak's setting is some of the most beautiful heart-rending choral writing I know. That's despite him not really being a favourite composer of mine.

If you like Cornysh and Browne's settings then you might want to give Richard Davy's version a listen to, from the same era part of the Eton Choirbook

 

[Xaltotun]

Dvorak's is a bewildering cornucopia of different emotions, with more drama than most operas... an incredible piece. The Liszt is also very good.

 

[Vinyl]

The one I've heard most times is Dvorak. Very emotional.
Yesterday I heard for the first time a recording of Boccherini's Stabat Mater, played by La Follia under Miguel de la Fuente, and I liked it a LOT.
I don't know whether it was Tamara Hert or Kumiko Oshita, but at least one soprano impressed me.

 

[cjvinthechair]

3 lovely examples:

Alphons Diepenbrock (who has 2 !)
Gyorgy Orban
Somei Satoh

On You Tube - do try one !

 

[Guest]

After my initial listen, I have to say that, like many on here, I really enjoy the Pergolesi Stabat Mater. That said, after that, it is really the renaissance Stabat Maters that I most enjoy, especially over the Rossini, Poulenc, and the Szymanowski. I still mean to try the Dvorak.

 

[TxllxT]

My favourite Stabat Mater & my favourite interpretation with Riccardo Muti. Rossini has composed quite 'merry' tunes to the texts that mostly are said to be 'sad', maintaining a quite undogmatic approach to this Church music. Personally I like the uplifting mood of Rossini's music pervading the whole work.

 

[Vaneyes]

Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Op. 53. I'm pleased to see that so many agree.

My preferred recording is Polish State PO/Stryja et al (Marco Polo, Naxos, rec. 1988). Soloists are superbly positioned and caught. Stryja's reading is high energy. I can't imagine better performance or atmosphere for this work. Therefore, I've declared it a Certified Perfect Recording.:tiphat:

 

[Morrelli]

I recently purchased Marco Rosano`s, Stabat Mater with Andreas Scholl, on mp3. Great in the car . I think my next purchase will be, Vivaldi`s Stabat Mater, Andreas Scholl, Ensemble 415 and chiara banchini

 

[starthrower]

I have the Poulenc and Penderecki, but I haven't even listened to them. Shame on me! Will rectify that. The Szymanowski sounds beautiful.

 

[Benny]

Poulenc - esp. with Serge Baudo.

 

[Bloosman]

I only possess the Szymanowski...

Simon Rattle and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra...good stuff.

 

[Mandryka]

Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Josquin. There's a fine performance by Herreweghe which IMO is completely aligned with the emotional meaning of the hymn.

Another good one is by Lassus -- there's a nice performance by the Hiliard ensemble if I remember correctly, but I can't find it.

 

[maestro267]

Of the standalone compositions, I've only heard the Dvorák and Szymanowski (a recent purchase).

There's also the Penderecki setting that he used as part of his St. Luke Passion.

 

[HaydnBearstheClock]

I've only heard Haydn's Stabat Mater fully so far, and really liked it. I'll need to check out the other ones .

 

[SteveSherman]

Unknown to me until I sang it a couple of years ago: the Stabat Mater of Josef Rheinberger. No idea if there's a recording.

It's worth noting that there is a textual intersection between the Stabat Mater and The Seven Last Words, of which I've sung settings by Schütz, Dubois and Franck--and especially love the last named.

 

[hocket]

Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Josquin. There's a fine performance by Herreweghe which IMO is completely aligned with the emotional meaning of the hymn.

IMHO the version by the Dufay Ensemble blows the Herreweghe out of the water.

 

[science]

1. Szymanowski
2. Pergolesi
3. Steffani
4. Browne
5. Josquin
6. Palestrina
7. Astorga
8. Anerio
9. Caldara
10. Dvorak
11. Rossini

 

[JCarmel]

A difficult one, this...I do love a good Stabat Mater...just like putting on a Requiem is the very best thing to cheer you up?!

I think that I'd have to choose Poulenc's...I love the grave introduction & first intonations to the 'Stabat Mater' poem and then the shapely musical phrasing to the word 'dolorosa'. It immediately knicks me into a certain mood that is both serious and deeply felt. It reminds me of my Catholic upbringing I suppose... 'Once a Catholic, always a Catholic' et al....a truism, methinks.

BBC's Cd Review considered Vivaldi's... the other Saturday if anyone is interested and can listen to same where they are...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01wys2g

 

[Rach d minor]

Rossini is mine (Although the text setting is horrible)