FULL STABAT MATER (Salvador Brotons) Barcelona 2024 Marta Mathéu, Pau Armengol

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Stabat Mater   
• Composer: Brotons Salvador  
• Libretto: traditional  
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatre Auditori de Granollers, Barcelona, Spain  
• Recorded: May 19, 2024
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Marta Matheu, Roger Padullés, Pau Armengol
• Conductor: Salvador Brotons  
• Orchestra: Orquestra Simfònica Sant Cugat  
• Chorus: Cor de Cambra de Granollers, Cor Jove Amics de la Unió, Cor ArsInNova  
• Chorus Master: Josep Vila Jover, Marta Dosaiguas, Maria Maurí  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Cor de Cambra de Granollers  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Written in 1999 this 40 minutes piece, is a truly musical experience to listen to.

  Salvador Brotons was born in Barcelona in Spain in 1959. He studied flute, composition and conducting at the Barcelona Conservatory of Music. In 1985 he moved to the USA where he received his Doctorate in Music from Florida State University. Salvador Brotons composed mainly for orchestra and chamber groups, but also composed an opera and a musical. Of his more than 80 pieces some 15 were awarded prizes. He has been conductor of several orchestras in Spain and the USA and is conductor and musical director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra since 1991.

  This work, divided into seven parts, speaks of the human pain of a mother. It does so by investigating the drama of this pain –I. Stabat Mater Dolorosa–, the helplessness of someone who sees this sacrifice –II. Qui est homo–, the brutality and suffering that this torture generates –III. Pro peccatis–, but also the love, sweetness and tenderness that exist in this lament –IV. Eia Mater–. It continues to create parallels of character and returning to the theme of the first movement –V. Sancta mater–, continues with a contrapuntal choral fugue that speaks of the devotion felt by the mass –VI. Inflamatus et accensus– and ends with the culmination of the entire process: an ethereal, confused and remote vision of the eternal soul –VII. Quando corpus morietur.

  In this way, longer, denser movements of great dramatic intensity are interspersed with shorter, slower and more reflective ones performed by two vocal soloists: a baritone and a soprano. On the other hand, the parts for choir and orchestra are of great strength, fast tempo and extremely vibrant and explosive. Finally, says the composer, the last number is different from the rest: “isolated and in the manner of a conclusion, the music belongs to another world: the eternal world of infinity”. This work, written on the composer’s initiative and premiered in the United States with great public success and good reviews, had never been performed again; today, however, we will have the opportunity to hear it again on stage.

  The concert includes the popular zarzuela ‘Cançó d’amor i de guerra’.

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