Banda de Alcobaça Choir + String Ensemble

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This concert offers a musical and spiritual journey through three choral works that, despite their geographical and stylistic differences, share a common impulse: to give voice to memory, light and transcendence.
Eleanor Daley's Requiem interweaves liturgical texts with contemporary English poetry in a serene tribute to the departed. Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré is based on an old Christian hymn adapted by Jean Racine and expresses a luminous spirituality with melodic clarity and expressive restraint.
Ola Gjeilo's Sunrise Mass closes the programme with a contemporary approach to the Mass. Written for choir and string orchestra, it charts a symbolic journey from darkness to light. With influences from minimalism, choral music and the cinematic universe, Gjeilo creates an ethereal and contemplative atmosphere that invites inner elevation.

Eleanor Daley (1955- )
Requiem
1. Requiem Aeternam I
2. Out of the Deep
4. In Remembrance
7. Requiem Aeternam II
8. In Paradisum

Gabriel Fauré (1845- 1924)
Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11

Ola Gjeilo (1978- )
Sunrise Mass
1. The Spheres
2. Sunrise
3. The City
4. Identity

Artists
Rui Carreira, musical direction
Sérgio Varalonga, piano

String Ensemble
Nuno de Vasconcelos, ensemble director and violin I
Sofia Weffort, Gonçalo Godinho and Beatriz Morais, violin I
Sofia Ferreira, Maria Inês Oliveira and Lourenço Henriques, violin II
Cristiana Barreiro and Maria Inês Teixeira, viola
Mariana Rodrigues and Simão Lamego, cello
Jacinta Ferreira, double bass

Support: Parish of Pataias and Union of Parishes of Pataias and Martingança

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