Nicolás Ledesma: Stabat Mater | Septimæ Ensemble · MarchVivo

The confiscation failed to suppress the vitality of religious genres in Spanish musical life. The Stabat Mater composed in the 1830s by Nicolás Ledesma, chapel master of the Collegiate Church of Bilbao, occupies a prominent place in the panorama of 19th-century sacred music in Spain. Its annual performance on Good Friday in the capital of Vizcaya, as well as the posthumous tributes dedicated to the composer, attest to the notoriety achieved by this work, which until now had been unjustifiably forgotten.

Nicolás Ledesma (1791-1883)
Stabat Mater, for three voices and string quartet
00:00 Verse 1. “Stabat Mater”
03:27 Verse 2. “Cujus animam”
06:06 Verse 3. “O! quam tristis”
07:38 Verse 4. “Quae moerebat”
09:05 Verse 5. “Quis est homo”
11:48 Verse 6. “Quis non posset”
14:28 Verse 7. “Pro pecatis”
18:14 Verse 8. “Sancta mater”
20:03 Verse 9. “Fac me vere”
22:42 10th stanza. “Virgo virginum”
26:17 11th stanza. “Inflamatus et accensus”
28:53 12th stanza. “Quando corpus morietur”


Septimæ Ensemble
Paloma Friedhoff, soprano. Diego Blázquez, tenor. Víctor Cruz, bass.
Miguel Colom and Anne Matxain, violin. Olga González Cárdaba, viola. Josep Trescolí, cello.

Excerpt from the concert “Resurrection of a Stabat Mater,” from the series “Desolation in Music: the Stabat Mater”. In collaboration with the Bilbao Philharmonic Society.
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18 October 2025
Fundación Juan March, Madrid

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