Released March 2025, local composer Clive Osgood's latest album Stabat Mater has hit the shelves and streaming services. 

This setting of the Stabat Mater, a 13th century hymn to the Virgin Mary, is written for soprano, tenor and bass soloists as well as chorus, strings and piano. The work was composed in 2009 and divides the original twenty stanzas of the text into ten movements. It describes the grief-stricken Mother of Jesus standing at the foot of cross, on which he is suffering an agonising death.

Gramophone Magazine featured a Video Of The Day taken from the album, where the sublime soprano, Grace Davidson, sings "O Quam Tristis". It is beautiful. 

Clive won the Bach Carol Competition on 2024 and he adapted this work for The Queen's Six to perform a six part version of the carol for the first time in Haslemere in December 2024, hosted by HHH Concerts. Mr Osgood also attended the premiere last year in Haslemere of a work from his last album, Chamber Works, performed by The Tippett Quartet. 

Coming up in Haslemere, at The Dolmetsch Festival Centenary Celebration, Clive Osgood has composed a new piece to be rehearsed in the Dolmetsch workshops and it will be performed at an informal concert on Sunday 18th May at the end of this two day festival. In addition, Clive has composed the anthem for Haslemere Festival's choral evensong service. It marks the 1,700th anniversary of the creation of the Nicene Creed in 325AD.