Stabat Mater (Jenkins)

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Stabat Mater is a composition for choir and orchestra by Karl Jenkins , which was premiered in Liverpool in 2008 under his direction. The Welsh composer set the Stabat mater , a 13th-century prayer that Mary contemplates under the cross, to music. He supplemented the Latin prayer with in-depth texts in several languages. As in many of his other works, there is traditional Western music as well as other ethnic influences in instruments and singing styles, especially from the Middle East .

background

Jenkins composed the work in 2006 and 2007. The Stabat mater is a prayer in 20 stanzas that begins with the line “Stabat Mater dolorosa” (The mother stood in pain). It looks at the suffering caused by the crucifixion from the mother's point of view and asks her for community of suffering and intercession. The prayer was often set to music, the multi-sentence work by Jenkins is one of the longest.

Text and music

Jenkins structured his composition in twelve movements. Six of them are based exclusively on the text of the Stabat Mater. One movement is Ave verum , a choral movement based on the Ave verum corpus prayer that Jenkins first wrote for Bryn Terfel . Another sentence, And the mother did weep, contains this one line that is sung in English, Latin, Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew at the same time . The text for the sentence Lament was written by Jenkins' wife, Carol Barratt. Incantation is sung to a text that partly contains early Arabic. Jenkins has a few lines sung in Aramaic and Old Arabic and thus creates a connection to the environment of Mary and Jesus. The Armenian pipe wind instrument Duduk (or Nay) reinforces the reference with a dark sound. Jenkins also uses local drums such as Darabuca, Daf , Moholla and Riq .

sentences

Stabat Mater is divided into twelve movements. Unlike in the Requiem, each sentence either only contains text from the prayer (1, 3, 5, 8, 11 and 12) or it does not. The following table contains the beginning of the text ( incipit ), the text source, the abbreviated language (s): la (Latin), ar (Arabic), en (English), am (Aramaic), he (Hebrew) and gr (Greek), and the voices, with a distinction between oriental singing (vocalist) and western singing ( mezzo-soprano ).

Incipit text Languages) be right
1. Cantus lacrimosus Stabat Mater 1-4 la Choir, chamber choir
2. Incantation Traditional texts ar vocalist
3. Vidit Jesum in tormentis Stabat Mater 5-10 la Chamber choir
4th lament Carol Barratt's poem en Mezzo-soprano
5. Sancta Mater Stabat Mater 11-14 la Choir, chamber choir
6. Now my life is only weeping Poem by Rumi en on Mezzo-soprano, vocalist, chamber choir
7. And the mother did weep Line from Jenkins en he la am gr Mezzo-soprano, vocalist, chamber choir
8. Virgo Virginum Stabat Mater 15 la Chamber choir
9. Are you lost out in darkness? Epic of Gilgamesh en on Mezzo-soprano, vocalist, chamber choir
10th Ave verum Ave verum corpus la Chamber choir
11. Fac, ut portem Christi mortem Stabat Mater 16-17 la Chamber choir
12. Paradisi Gloria Stabat Mater 18-20 la Choir, chamber choir

World premiere and recording

The world premiere took place on March 15th, 2008 in Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral , in connection with the celebration of Liverpool as European Capital of Culture . The composer conducted the choir and orchestra of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a 65-minute performance. Two soloists, Jurgita Adamonyte and Belinda Sykes, also sing and play Duduk . A recording was made with the same musicians, reinforced by members of the choir EMO from Helsinki, and was released in March 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jenkins, Karl: Stabat Mater (2006-07) 62 '/ for contralto solo, SATB chorus and orchestra (German / English) , Boosey . Retrieved March 27, 2017. 
  2. ↑ a b David Eddins: Karl Jenkins: Stabat Mater ( English ) AllMusic. March 17, 2008. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  3. Jump up ↑ David Flanning: Karl Jenkins: Triumph of banal manipulation (English) . In: The Telegraph , March 17, 2008. Retrieved March 27, 2017. 
  4. ^ Karl Jenkins: Stabat Mater / (March 2008) (German / English) , Boosey . Retrieved March 27, 2017. 

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