Stabat Mater dolorosa: Music for Passiontide

In this rich Passiontide sequence, polyphinc 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.
“Warm yet pure-toned emotion pours from these 27 voices, and a fine corps of basses grounds the whole with exemplary gravitas” – Choir and Organ
 
“carefully chosen, elegantly sequenced, excellently sung: one of the most attractive new Easter recordings of the year” – BBC Radio 3 ‘Building a Library’
 
“This is an outstanding disc. … I find it hard to believe that the music has ever been better sung than in this searing performance by the Clare choir” – MusicWeb International
 
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross | director