Cupertinos
Rosa sine spinis
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Rosa sine spinis invites the audience to enter the soundscape of Marian devotion during the Golden Age of Portuguese polyphony. Centred on Duarte Lobo’s magnificent Missa Sancta Maria, based on Francisco Guerrero’s famous motet of the same name, the programme brings together some of the most inspired works dedicated to the Virgin Mary by Portuguese composers of the 16th and 17th centuries. From the works of Duarte Lobo, Manuel Cardoso, Estêvão de Brito, Estêvão Lopes Morago and Pedro de Cristo emerges music of extraordinary beauty, in which contrapuntal sophistication is combined with profound spiritual intensity. During a period marked by profound religious, cultural and political upheavals, culminating in the Restoration of Portuguese independence in 1640, these composers found in the figure of Mary an inexhaustible source of contemplation, hope and transcendence. Rosa sine spinis thus reveals the richness of a musical tradition that represents one of the most brilliant moments in the history of Portuguese music.
Programme
Marian devotion in Portuguese polyphonic music during the Restoration of 1640
Manuel Cardoso (1566 - 1650)
Asperges me, a 4
Francisco Guerrero (1528 - 1599)
Sancta Maria, a 4
Duarte Lobo (1565 - 1646)
Missa Sancta Maria, a 4
Kyrie
Gloria
Pedro de Cristo (1545 - 1618)
Regina cæli, a 4
Duarte Lobo
Missa Sancta Maria
Credo
Estêvão de Brito (1575 - 1641)
Sancta Maria succurre, a 6
Duarte Lobo
Missa Sancta Maria
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Estêvão Lopes Morago (1575 - 1630)
Ave Maris Stella, a 4
Duarte Lobo
Alma Redemptoris Mater, a 8
Pedro de Cristo
Ave Maria, a 8
Performers
Pedro Teixeira, musical direction
Raquel Mendes and Eva Braga Simões, cantus
Gabriela Braga Simões and Maria Bustorff, altus
André Lacerda and Tiago Sousa, tenor
Pedro Silva and Nuno Mendes, bassus
Partnership: Festival de Polifonia Portuguesa – Fundação Cupertino de Miranda
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