Clive Osgood: Stabat Mater

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Composer: Clive Osgood

Choir: The Choir of Royal Holloway

Orchestra: London Mozart Players

Director: Rupert Gough

This setting of the Stabat Mater, a 13th century

hymn to the Virgin Mary, is written for soprano,

tenor and bass soloists as well as chorus, strings

and piano. The work was composed in 2009 and

divides the original twenty stanzas of the text

into ten movements. It describes the grief-stricken

Mother of Jesus standing at the foot of cross,

on which he is suffering an agonising death.

The overall shape of these movements

provides something of an arch structure,

with similar music at the beginning and end.

Similarly, a slower variation of the second

movement is used for the penultimate movement.