Stabat Mater | ||||
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Studio album by Karl Jenkins | ||||
Released | 10 March 2008 | |||
Recorded | 2007 | |||
Genre | Classical | |||
Length | 62:02 | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Producer | Karl Jenkins | |||
Karl Jenkins chronology | ||||
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Stabat Mater is a 2008 composition for choir and orchestra by Karl Jenkins, based on the 13th-century prayer Stabat Mater. Like much of Jenkins' earlier work, the work incorporates both traditional Western music (orchestra and choir) with ethnic instruments and vocals, this time focusing on the Middle East. The first recording features the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, along with two soloists, Lithuanian mezzo-soprano Jurgita Adamonyte, and English musician Belinda Sykes, who both sings and performs on the duduk, an Armenian reed instrument.