Historical Soundscape Tour through Évora
Last 18 May I gave a tour on the Historical Soundscapes theme through some of the city’s historical centre streets with focus on the religious institutions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Tag: Polyphony
Presentation at Baroque Symposium in Cáceres
Photo from my paper presentation at the IV Simpósio Internacional Jóvenes Investigadores del Barroco Iberoamericano, in Cáceres last April 10th, where I gave some perspectives of transition in the works of Évora Cathedral composers Diogo Dias Melgaz (1638-1700) and Pedro …
Polyphony for World Voice Day
The human voice is probably one of our most valuable treasures, to which so much wonderful music has been composed since the beginnings of our civilisation. April 16th was chosen since 1999 to celebrate worldwide the phenomenon of voice. Its …
Paper at Simposio de Jóvenes Investigadores del Barroco Iberoamericano
Tomorrow, April 10th, I’ll be presenting a paper at the first day of the IV Simposio Internacional Jóvenes Investigadores del Barroco Iberoamericano “Las orillas del Barroco”, in the beautiful city of Cáceres (Spain).
Alonso Lobo • Versa est in luctum
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 …
Tomás Luis de Victoria ❧ Ave Maria [a 8]
Together with Francisco Guerrero’s, Tomás Luis de Victoria’s double-choir setting of the Ave Maria (the only one actually by him) is probably one the “Ave Maria” settings from Iberian composers which I like more (although D. Pedro de Cristo’s setting is also …
Editions Performed in European Early Music Day
Tomorrow, March 21st, is seventh edition of the European Day for Early Music. I will be participating, although indirectly, with Grupo Vocal Olisipo for whom I have prepared several editions of eighteenth-century vocal polyphony by composers of Évora Cathedral.
Music Editions Performed in Madeira Island
Several of my editions of eighteenth-century sacred vocal polyphony were performed in concert last March 16th in Porto Moniz, Madeira Island, by Grupo Vocal Olisipo. The concert was part of the festival “Música a Norte – Ciclo de Música Barroca” …
Estêvão Lopes Morago • Oculi mei semper ad Dominum
On June 4th, 2014, I made some recordings with Ensemble Eborensis of the repertory we were singing at the time, taking advantage of the generous acoustic of the archaeology wing of the then Évora Regional Museum (now National Museum Fr. …
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Tomás Luis de Victoria • Super flumina Babylonis
This psalm-motet by Tomás Luis de Victoria has a powerful and strinking effect. His polychoral music began to appear around the same time as that of Palestrina and Super flumina Babylonis is a polychoral work, although the bassus parts are not always treated in …
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