Ensemble São Tomás de Aquino & Coro Regina Coeli de Lisboa

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Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Regina Coeli Choir and the 10th anniversary of the São Tomás de Aquino Ensemble, we unite the two groups in a tribute to choral music, evoking the beginning of the Portuguese and Italian Baroque period. We propose three significant works by the composers Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Antonio Lotti (1667-1740), and João Rodrigues Esteves (1700-ca.1751), thus evoking polychorality: a common characteristic of the three works – Crucifixus for eight voices, Stabat Mater for ten voices, and Miserere for three choirs (twelve voices). Scarlatti and Esteves have a connection with Rome and Lisbon, where both studied, lived, and worked in the first decades of the 18th century, in the exchange of musicians that the royal court proposed. Possibly, the two composers coexisted in our city, at a time when sacred music proliferated in these ecclesiastical and royal environments. The concert will begin with the masterful polyphonic piece by the Venetian composer Lotti, reciting a part of the Creed relating to the crucifixion of Jesus. This is followed by the sequence The sorrowful mother stood by the cross, and we will end with Psalm 51, Have mercy on me, Lord, a work by João Rodrigues Esteves that is rarely performed, being a splendid piece of Portuguese Baroque, magnificent for its three-choral structure.

Programme

A Lotti (1667-1740)
Crucifixus a 8 vozes

D. Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Stabat mater a 10 vozes

J.R. Esteves (1700-ca.1751)
Miserere mei a 3 coros

Performers
André Ferreira, César Gonçalves & Marta Vicente, basso continuo
Maria de Fátima Nunes, musical direction

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