Stabat mater / Bruno Coulais (Laurent Korcia, violin ; Claire Desert, piano ; Robert Wyatt, narrator ; Marie Kobayashi, mezzo-soprano ; Guillaume Depardieu, vocals ; Aicha Redouane, vocals ; Slim Pezin, guitar ; Marc Chantereau, percussion ; Loic Pierre, conductor ; Quatuor a cordes ; Mikrokosmos Chamber Chorus).
Note
For vocal soloists, solo violin, string quartet, piano & harpsichord (one player), electric guitar, percussion, and chamber choir.
"In this ... text from the thirteenth century ... I have chosen to emphasise a mother's grief at the death of her child, rather than the account of the Virgin lamneting the death of Christ"--Insert, p. 13.
"Les textes chantées par Aïcha Redouane [i.e. 1st, 15th, and 21st sections] sont extraits de 'La passion de Rābiʻa,' poèmes soufis de Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawīyya (VIIIe siècle) sur une composition originale d'Aïcha Redouane et Habib Yammine"--Insert, p. 3.
Event (note)
Live recording, June 28 2005, at the Basilique de Saint-Denis (Festival de Saint-Denis).
Language (note)
Sung in Arabic and Latin.
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
Coulais, Bruno.
Title
Stabat Mater [electronic resource] / Bruno Coulais.
Imprint
[France] : Naïve, p2005.
Performer
Aïcha Redouane, Guillaume Depardieu, Marie Kobayashi, singers ; Robert Wyatt, pre-recorded and electronically altered voice ("voix off enregistrée") ; Laurent Korcia, solo violin ; Claire Désert, harpsichord, piano ; Slim Pezin, guitar ; Marc Chantereau, percussion ; Christophe Guiot, Elisabeth Pallas, violins ; Françoise Gneri, viola ; Jean-Philippe Audin, violoncello ; Chœur de chambre Mikrokosmos ; Loïc Pierre, conductor.
Event
Live recording, June 28 2005, at the Basilique de Saint-Denis (Festival de Saint-Denis).