Video: The concert was broadcast live for the first time from the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Known for its stunning acoustics and Michelangelo's frescoes, the Sistine Chapel organized the first live broadcast of the evening concert on 22 April for the first time ever. A modern interpretation of the cantata "Stabat mater" ("Mother of sorrow"), written by 59-year-old J. Macmillan, a musician of Scottish origin, was broadcast on the screens of a million-strong audience. As a Catholic, Macmillan is fond of writing spiritual compositions, mainly for choral performance.
The concert was performed by the Cambridge Chamber Orchestra Britten Sinfonia, the British Choir The Sixteen under the direction of conductor Harry Christophers. The medieval Catholic composition "Stabat mater" consists of twenty three-line stanzas, the authorship of which is traditionally attributed to the Italian poet Jacopone da Todi (1230-1306). Another version says that the true creator is Pope Innocent the third or Bonaventure.
The very first chants and verses of the cantata are dated in sources from the 13th century. Until the middle of the 16th century, the composition was among the Roman Missal, and it was performed between Hallelujah and the Gospel. However, in the same 16th century, a ban was imposed on the performance of this sequence at the Cathedral of Trent, and it was lifted only in 1727.
The name of the sequence comes from the incipit "Stabat mater dolorosa". The first half of the text tells about the suffering that the Virgin Mary had to experience during the crucifixion of her son, Jesus Christ. The second part is the sinner's prayer to the Mother of God, and ends with a request that the Virgin Mary give a saving paradise.
Interpretation by Scottish composer Macmillan was first dubbed in 2016 at the Barbican Center (London). Cardinal Vincent Nichols liked the result so much that he convinced the composer to present his interpretation at the Vatican.
However, the most popular and greatest version of the Stabat mater is the cantata, written in the 18th century by the Italian musician and composer Giovanni Batista Pergolesi.
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