STABAT MATER SATB VOCAL SCORE

Karl Jenkins: Stabat Mater Vocal Score

for Contralto Solo, Chorus & Orchestra

Boosey & Hawkes edition M060119521

Looking outside the purely Western European tradition for inspiration and freshness, Karl Jenkins sets the 13th-century Stabat Mater text in Latin and English and has extended it to a universal depication of grief with six other texts, some of them from ancient sources, in a variety of languages. The scoring is for voices and modern sumphony orchestra augmented by indigenous instruments such as the darabuca (hand drum) and riq (small tambourine), and the mey (woodwind). 

The work has been recorded by EMI Classics, performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, the EMO Choir of Helsinki, with soloists Jurgita Adamonyte and Belinda Sykes, conducted by the composer.