“Put aside any prejudice you may have about the accordion, and carefully listen to this compilation of Marian music assembled by master accordionist Henry Doktorski. With the skill of a poet, Doktorski has arranged 25 hymns and presented them with varied textures, in every imaginable genre from simple melodic chant, to melody with accompaniment, to all out accordion panache. In the fingers and hands of Doktorski, the cherished melodies soar with lyric fluidity, all the time keeping sight of the reason for their existence-to honor the Mother of God.”-Kenneth G. Danchik, Associate Organist, Saint Paul Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Track 11 Stabat Mater (Sorrowful mother, also known as At The Cross Her Station Keeping) is a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic sequence attributed to Jacopone da Todi (c. 1230-1306). Its title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa (The sorrowful mother was standing). The tune was published in Maintzisch Gesangbuch (1661).
Stabat Mater, one of the most powerful and immediate of extant medieval poems, meditates on the suffering of Mary during her son’s crucifixion, and is sung regularly today at Stations of the Cross during Lent. This hymn is also found in some Protestant hymnals.
Stabat Mater has been set to music by many composers, among them Joseph Haydn, Antonín Dvorák, Antonio Vivaldi, Emanuele d’Astorga, Gioacchino Rossini, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles Gounod, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Karol Szymanowski, Alessandro Scarlatti, Pedro de Escobar, Arvo Pärt, and Giuseppe Verdi.
This setting of Stabat Mater by Henry Doktorski was composed as a canon for three voices, reminiscent of the famous Kanon in D by Johann Pachelbel, and recorded with an accordion quartet.
On this CD Henry Doktorski performs beautiful and artistic arrangements of 25 beloved Marian hymns from the 11th through the 20th centuries, including five different settings of Ave Maria. Truly a treasure for lovers of the classical accordion, connoisseurs of sacred music, and devotees of our Blessed Mother.
For program notes, see henrydoktorski.com/recordings/cdmarianhymnsnotes.html
To listen to all 25 tracks, go to this playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLy9CI0idY74qnqIfr2wXgyW53XB1cQyXe.
20 июн 2024
