On this page we present two articles on Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater Op. 53 - by Polish Music Information Center (2004) and by Piotr Deptuch (2002). Polish Music Information Center: Karol ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the cross her station keeping stood the mournful mother weeping, Close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, All his bitter anguish bearing, Lo! the piercing sword had passed ...

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 ...