Nancy Gustafson, soprano ; His Majestie's Clerkes ; Anne Heider, conductor
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For unaccompanied mixed chorus and soprano solo.
Title from image of compact disc cover on Web page (viewed July 10, 2007).
"World premiere recording"--Insert.
English texts from The Revised English Bible ("Prophecy of Simeon"); "The Trojan women," by Euripides, translated from the Greek by Richmond Lattimore; "The mother," by Padraic Pearse; four poems from "The death cycle machine," by Charlotte Mayerson, and "Elegy" by Sally M. Gall.
Duration: 54:37.
Includes program notes.
Recorded Aug. 18-20, 1999, at Mallinckrodt Chapel, Wilmette, IL.
Also available as compact disc; previously issued as Cedille Records CDR 90000 051.
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Work is based on the Stabat Mater text in Latin and five additional interpolated texts in English.
Introduction ["Prophecy of Simeon"] (1:44) -- Stabat mater (2:34) -- Cujus animam gementem (1:21) -- O quam tristis (1:02) -- Quae maerebat (2:28) -- Andromache's lament / Euripides (7:00) -- Quis est homo (0:59) -- Quis non posset (0:39) -- Pro peccatis (0:50) -- Vidit suum (2:32) -- The mother / Padraic Pearse (3:53) -- Eia mater (2:31) -- Fac ut ardeat (1:13) -- Sancta Mater (1:26) -- Tui nati (1:45) -- From "The death cycle machine": Layout (0:42) ; Haiku for an East Asian scholar (0:37) ; Ancho y ajeno (0:47) ; RSVP (1:07) / Charlotte Mayerson -- Fac me tecum (3:50) -- Juxta crucem (2:23) -- Virgo virginum (1:24) -- Fac ut portem (1:44) -- Elegy (2:54) / Sally M. Gall -- Fac me plagis (0:46) -- Flammis ne (0:48) -- Christe cum sit (1:32) -- Quando corpus (3:07)