Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and Graham Ross – Stabat Mater dolorosa: Music for Passiontide (2014) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and Graham Ross – Stabat Mater dolorosa: Music for Passiontide (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:56 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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The second album from the choir of Clare College, Cambridge in their series based on the major festivals in the Anglican calendar and, like „Veni Emmanuel“, produced by John Rutter.

In this richly varied Passiontide sequence, polyphonic settings of the great texts of Holy Week are interwoven with a plainchant rendition of the mournful „Stabat Mater“: the traditional medieval poem meditating on the death of Jesus and the grief of his mother.

Following on from last November’s „Veni Emmanuel: Music for Advent“, the choir under the direction of Graham Ross turn their attention towards the music of Holy Week, featuring a diverse range of works from Victoria, Lassus and Tallis to Bach, Stainer and Duruflé interwoven with a plainchant rendition of the mournful Stabat mata – the traditional medieval poem meditating on the death of Jesus and the grief of his mother.

‘Warm, yet pure-toned emotion pours from these 27 voices, and a fine corps of basses grounds the whole with exemplary gravitas’ (Choir & Organ)

Tracklist:
01. Stabat Mater dolorosa
02. O vos omnes
03. Tristis et anima mea
04. O quam tristis et afflicta
05. In ieunio et fletu
06. God so loved the world
07. Quis est homo qui non fleret
08. Caligaverunt oculi mei
09. Ut tecum lugeam
10. Pro peccatis suae gentis
11. The Reproaches
12. Eia, Mater, fons amoris
13. Crucifixus a 8
14. Sancta Mater, istud agas
15. Er nahm alles wohl in acht
16. Ave verum corpus
17. Fac me tecum pie flere
18. Salvator mundi I
19. Christus factus est
20. Virgo virginum praeclara
21. Ne irascaris/Civitas sancti tui
22. Fac me plagis vulnerari
23. Precor te, Domine
24. Christe, cum sit hinc exire
25. Ubi caritas