About this concert
The Stabat Mater, the medieval poem of Mary standing at the cross, has been set by composers from Palestrina to Dvořák. The choir performed Franz Schubert’s setting under Nayer Nagui with the soloists Mona Rafla, George Wanis and Reda Rafla, at the Basilica of Our Lady of Heliopolis.
Programme
- Work
- Schubert: Stabat Mater
About the music
Franz Schubert, Stabat Mater
- Schubert set the Stabat Mater twice, at 18 and 19: a short Latin setting in G minor (1815) and a larger one in F minor (1816).
- The F minor work, D 383, sets a German paraphrase by Friedrich Klopstock, “Jesus Christus schwebt am Kreuze”, for soloists, choir and orchestra, in twelve movements.
- The Stabat Mater itself is a 13th-century poem on Mary standing at the cross, set by composers from Palestrina to Dvořák.
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Photography: Miriam Benyamein
