Vicente Lusitano
2022-06-17
There’s been a lot of buzz online since the publishing of several yesterday in some British media such as the BBC or The Guardian regarding the Portuguese-born composer Vicente Lusitano.Read more
Edition of Francisco José Perdigão’s motets for Advent
2021-10-07
The edition of Portuguese composer Francisco José Perdigão’s motets for Advent has been published. Francisco José Perdigão was born sometime in mid-eighteenth century and died in 1833. He was active both as dean of the choirboys school, master of the Claustra and chapel master at Évora Cathedral in the lastRead more
Book Chapter on Évora Historical Soundscapes
2020-06-03
I have published the text “A antífona Recordare, Virgo Mater: Prática musical mariana na Sé de Évora no final do século XVII e século XVIII” in the ebook Paisagens Sonoras Urbanas: História, Memória e Património, edited by Antónia Fialho Conde and Vanda de Sá and published in the Publicações doRead more
Diogo Dias Melgaz ❧ Salve Regina
2019-10-02
The motet Salve Regina, for four voices, is probably Diogo Dias Melgaz’s best-known work. Melgaz was born in the Alentejo village of Cuba in 1638 and died in Évora in 1700 and is one of the Évora Cathedral composers whose most musical output has survived to this day.Read more
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina • Assumpta est Maria
2019-08-14
No Renaissance composer and few later ones have been as proficient as Palestrina at writing positive, outward-going, major-key music, and in this context Assumpta est Maria represents one of the most important works of the period.Read more
Tomás Luis de Victoria – O Quam gloriosum
2019-07-09
One of my favourite motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria is the four-voice O quam gloriosum, a motet indicated for the feast of All Saints. It was one of his most published works with the first print in the 1572 book of motets with reprints in 1583, 1585, 1589 andRead more
Text on the motet Memento homo by Diogo Dias Melgaz
2019-06-10
I have recently published a brief text (in Portuguese) on the Portugueze online magazine InComunidade titled “Algumas notas sobre o motete Memento homo de Diogo Dias Melgaz”, in the issue 78 of last March.Read more
Estêvão Lopes Morago • O bone Jesu
2019-06-07
In late July and early August of 2012 I helped organizing the Festival Iberian Music 16th & 17th Centuries in Angra do Heroísmo (Terceira Island, Azores), a five-concert marathon during a week in the churches of the city that have organs. It combined the performance of Iberian organ music withRead more
Tomás Luis de Victoria • Ascendens Christus in altum
2019-05-30
The motet Ascendens Christus in altum by Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria was first published in his 1572 book of motets, one of his finest publications where one can find other motets such as the famous O magnum mysterium or the six-part Vidi speciosam.Read more
Alonso Lobo • Versa est in luctum
2019-04-04
To me, one of the finest examples of the relation and message that painting and music can communicate can be found in El Greco’s The Burrial of the Count of Orgaz and Alonso Lobo’s motet Versa est in luctum. Both works are pratically from the same period and both areRead more