Stabat Mater Pergolesi

Stabat Mater is a 13th Century Catholic hymn about Marys sorrows

during Christs crucifixion. It has been set to music by many
composers, one of the most famous being Pergolesis setting.
Mirinesse Singers
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) wrote it during the final present
weeks of his life and it was composed for the Confraternit dei
Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo, a Neopolitan Confraternity. A Concert of
Stabat Mater - Chorus
Cujus Animam Solo (Alison Corfield)
Marian Music
O Quam Tristis Chorus
Quae Moerebat Soprani
Quis Est Homo Duet (Jo Wheatley & Sue Stott)
Pro Peccatis Chorus
Vidit Suum Solo (Justyna Galkowska)
Eja Mater Contralti
Fac Ut Ardeat Chorus
Sancta Mater Chorus
Fac Ut Portem Solo (Alison Corfield)
Inflammatus Chorus
Quando Corpus Amen - Chorus

Mirinesse Singers
Tessa Hancox, Jane Hill,
Maxine Richardson, Jo Wheatley
Sarah Chadd, Justyna Galkowska,
Charlotte Gernert, Julia Knight
Alison Corfield, Sally Harrison,
Glenis Malkin, Sue Stott, Ann Wright
Samantha Graper Peter Graper Organ

Thanks
We would like to thank then Revd. Adrian Mason and everybody at
Fleet Church for welcoming us into their church and allowing us to
perform our second concert here.

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7:30pm
St. Mary Magdalene Church, Fleet
Sequence: Victimae Paschali Laudes - Wipo of Burgundy Hodie Aperuit Hildegard of Bingen
Wipo of Burgundy (c.995 c.1048) was a priest and writer. He was This is one of Hildegards shortest antiphons. It uses the common
chaplain to the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II, whose biography he twelfth century metaphor of vowed virginity as an enclosed garden.
wrote in chronicle form, Gesta Chuonrai II Imperatoris. Amongst his This is particularly striking as Hildegard was a renowned herbalist.
other writings, he wrote a lament in Latin on Conrads death, and is Interest in Hildegard has steadily grown because the songs she wrote
believed to have written this famous sequence for Easter. (77 in total) are, in many ways, atypical of the music of the time. She
often explores huge vocal ranges and her music is very florid and
Laudamus Virginem & Splendens Ceptigera from the Llibre Vermell melismatic.
de Montserrat
The Llibre Vermell de Montserrat or Red Book of Montserrat" is a O Virtus Sapientiae Hildegard arr. Liz Johnson
manuscript collection of devotional texts containing, amongst others, Liz Johnson is a composer, teacher and music workshop leader based
some late medieval songs. The 14th-century manuscript was compiled in the Midlands. Her richly diverse music ranges from luscious choral
in and is still located at the monastery of Montserrat, Spain. and vocal works to delicately layered and complex chamber music. Her
Laudamus Virginem Splendens Ceptigera music has been broadcast on Radio 3 and been performed by many
Let us praise the virgin Mother Shining Sovereign, well-known ensembles, including The Brodsky Quartet, The
and her son Jesus. Be our advocate, Fitzwilliam Quartet and the BCMG. This piece takes the melody and
Let us steadfastly mourn our sins, Virgin Mother, lyrics composed by Hildegard and turns it into a beautiful and
constantly hoping in Jesus. Beating our breast
atmospheric piece, with complex layers of sound created from the
Confessing our guilt
Let us be in the highest. original medieval line.

Sancta Mater Gracie/Dou Way Robin Ave Maris Stella Samantha Caroline Graper
This is an English two-part motet from around the 13th Century. The This piece has been written specifically for the Mirinesse Singers. It is
upper part is a melismatic and virtuosic, through-composed chant to really enjoyable writing for specific voices and I have exploited the
the Virgin Mary, in Latin. The lower part is a simple, rhythmic and clarity of the high notes the sopranos produce and the richness of the
repeated secular song. altos timbre. I like to write close harmonies because I think,
particularly when sung, they have a magical quality. This was
Virgen Madre Groriosa (340) from the Cantigas de Santa Maria important for my setting of these lyrics, as I wanted it to reflect the
The Cantigas de Santa Maria or Canticles of Holy Mary are 420 poems idea of stella or star.
with musical notation, written in the Medieval Galician language during
the reign of Alfonso X El Sabio (12211284). It is one of the largest Ave Maria Rebecca Clarke
collections of monophonic (solo) songs from the Middle Ages and is Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) was a Composer and Violist. This three-
characterized by the mention of the Virgin Mary in every song, with part setting of the traditional Marian hymn was her first piece of choral
every tenth song being a hymn. music to be published and was written around 1937. Clarkes work had
Virgen Madre Groriosa been largely ignored and, indeed, much of it is still yet to be published.
Glorious Virgin Mother, However, in 2000, the Rebecca Clarke society was established to
Daughter and bride of God promote the study and performance of music and her music is
Holy, noble and precious, beginning to be recognised for its compositional skill.
Who is wise or fit enough to praise you?
For because of our sinful nature INTERVAL
We could not see the face of God,-
Who is our light and day,
Without you, who are our dawn.
 Stabat Mater
1. Mother, bowed with grief appalling,
Must Thou watch, with tears slow
falling,
On the cross Thy dying Son!
2. Through Thy heart, thus sorrow
riven,
Must that cruel sword be driven,
As foretold oh Holy One!
3. Oh, how mournful and oppressed
Was that Mother ever-blessed,
Mother of the Spotless One:
4. She, who grieving, was perceiving,
Contemplating, unabating,
All the anguish of her Son!
5. Is there any, tears withholding,
Christs dear Mother thus beholding,
In woe like no other woe!
Who that would not grief be feeling
For that Holy Mother kneeling
What suffering was every so?
6. For the sins of every nation
She beheld His tribulation,
Given to scourgers for a prey:
7. Saw her Jesus foully taken,
Languishing by all forsaken,
When His spirit passed away.
8. Loves sweet fountain, Mother
tender,
Haste this hard heart soft to render,
Make me sharer in Thy pain:
9. Fire me now with zeal so glowing,
Love so rich to Jesus flowing,
That I favour may obtain.
10.Holy Mother, I implore Thee,
Crucify this heart before Thee
Guilty is it verily!
Hate, misprision, scorn, derision,
Thirst assailing, failing vision,
Railing, ailing, deal to me.
In Thy keeping, watching, weeping,
By the cross may I unsleeping
Live and sorrow for His sake:
Close to Jesus, with Thee kneeling,
All Thy dolours with Thee feeling,
Oh, grant this the prayer I make.
Maid immaculate, excelling,
Peerless one, in heavn high
dwelling,
Make me truly mourn with Thee;
11.Make me sighing bear Him dying,
Ever newly vivifying
The anguish He bore for me:
With the same scars lacerated
By the cross enfired, elated,
Wrought by love to ecstacy:
12.Thus inspired and affected
Let me, Virgin, be protected
When sounds forth the call for me.
May the sacred cross defend me,
He who died there so befriend me,
That His pardon shall suffice!
13.When this earthly frame is riven,
Grant that to my soul be given
All the joys of Paradise. Amen
Stabat Mater
1. Mother, bowed with grief appalling,
Must Thou watch, with tears slow
falling,
On the cross Thy dying Son!
2. Through Thy heart, thus sorrow
riven,
Must that cruel sword be driven,
As foretold oh Holy One!
3. Oh, how mournful and oppressed
Was that Mother ever-blessed,
Mother of the Spotless One:
4. She, who grieving, was perceiving,
Contemplating, unabating,
All the anguish of her Son!
5. Is there any, tears withholding,
Christs dear Mother thus beholding,
In woe like no other woe!
Who that would not grief be feeling
For that Holy Mother kneeling
What suffering was every so?
6. For the sins of every nation
She beheld His tribulation,
Given to scourgers for a prey:
7. Saw her Jesus foully taken,
Languishing by all forsaken,
When His spirit passed away.
8. Loves sweet fountain, Mother
tender,
Haste this hard heart soft to render,
Make me sharer in Thy pain:
9. Fire me now with zeal so glowing,
Love so rich to Jesus flowing,
That I favour may obtain.
10.Holy Mother, I implore Thee,
Crucify this heart before Thee
Guilty is it verily!
Hate, misprision, scorn, derision,
Thirst assailing, failing vision,
Railing, ailing, deal to me.
In Thy keeping, watching, weeping,
By the cross may I unsleeping
Live and sorrow for His sake:
Close to Jesus, with Thee kneeling,
All Thy dolours with Thee feeling,
Oh, grant this the prayer I make.
Maid immaculate, excelling,
Peerless one, in heavn high
dwelling,
Make me truly mourn with Thee;
11.Make me sighing bear Him dying,
Ever newly vivifying
The anguish He bore for me:
With the same scars lacerated
By the cross enfired, elated,
Wrought by love to ecstacy:
12.Thus inspired and affected
Let me, Virgin, be protected
When sounds forth the call for me.
May the sacred cross defend me,
He who died there so befriend me,
That His pardon shall suffice!
13.When this earthly frame is riven,
Grant that to my soul be given
All the joys of Paradise. Amen