Stabat Mater

[Dafydd y Garreg Wen]

It's Our Lady of Sorrows next Tuesday.

I know the Demessieux setting of the Stabat Mater chant. Any other pieces based on this that members recommend? Or other Marian pieces that are of a suitably dolorous character?

I shall be playing a small two-manual instrument, but should be interested for future reference to hear of pieces too that require something larger.

I suppose that music relating to Candlemass might also be appropriate ("Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also").

[Brizzle]

There’s a very pleasant ‘Variations and Fugue’ by Guilmant: 

http://ks4.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/e/ea/IMSLP03926-GuilmantL'OrganisteLiturgisteLivre3Op65.pdf

 

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[sjf1967]

The Suite Mariale by de Maleingreau has a ‘Sept Douleurs’ movement. It’s still in print (and in copyright)... but you may find it takes a while to get hold of it. 
 

[S_L]

I have a ceremony to play the organ for next Tuesday - it's for the installation of a Hermit within the Archdiocese of Bordeaux.

I was planning to improvise on the sequence 'Stabat Mater dolorosa' (page 1634 - Liber Usualis) - the phrasing and structure of the sequence does rather lend itself to an improvisation

[sjf1967]

And I think there’s a piece by Daniel Roth, Joies, douleurs et gloire  de Marie - I’ve never played it though....

[Vox Humana]

The first movement of Messiaen's Les Corps Glorieux is based on the Salve regina - not that you'd recognise it simply by listening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_NGyXvyER4&pp=QAA%3D

 

[sbarber49]

There's a Stabat Mater by Dandrieu (on IMSLP) - not very solemn, though.

There's a simple but, I think, very effective Salve Regina by Dupre (8 short Preludes on Gregorian Tunes), And there's the slow-moving solemn Ave Maris Stella ll  ("Jesus tender Mother, make thy supplication") in his 15 Pieces (Vepres du Commun).

There's an arrangement of the first movement of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater in OUP's Lent and Easter Organ Music for Manuals

[Vox Humana]

There's a very fine Salve regina by John Bull, although, strictly speaking, it's an alternatim setting requiring plainsong interpolations.

 

[Dafydd y Garreg Wen]

4 hours ago, Vox Humana said:

There's a very fine Salve regina by John Bull, although, strictly speaking, it's an alternatim setting requiring plainsong interpolations.

 

I suppose I could sing the plainsong bits ....

[Dafydd y Garreg Wen]

Thank you for all these interesting suggestions. Much to explore.