Ensemble São Tomás de Aquino

Vocal Ensemble

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The concert promotes an encounter between two archives that remain, almost always, incommunicable in concert programmes: the repertoire created for the Latin liturgical rites and the oral music, of popular roots, recreated by composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The expressiveness of Marian devotion, under the sign of the "sacred mother", is the place for this unusual encounter, proposed by the Ensemble São Tomás de Aquino.

António Correa Braga (c. 1695–1704)
Batalha de 6.º tom

Gregoriano
Haec est Regina

Harm. Maria de Lourdes Martins (1926–2009)
Senhora do Almu(o)rtão (Beira Baixa)

Improvisação sobre os passos de cantochão de Gaude Mater Ecclesia

Harm. Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906–1994)
Nossa Senhora das Preces (Beira Baixa)

Romance da Andorinha Gloriosa (Beira Litoral)

Manoel Rodrigues Coelho (c. 1555–1635)
Verso sobre os passos de cantochão de Ave Maris Stella

Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650)
Magnificat

Improvisação de meio registo sobre os passos de cantochão de Stabat Mater

Harm. Alfredo Teixeira
Nome de Maria (Ilha da Madeira)

António Carreira (1520/1530–1587/1597)
Stabat Mater

António Carreira
Canção a quatro glosada

Harm. Eurico Carrapatoso (1962)
Virgem da Lapa (Beira Baixa)

Duarte Lobo (c. 1565–1646)
Ave Regina Caelorum

Improvisação sobre os passos de cantochão de Salve Regina

Harm. Eurico Carrapatoso
Senhora do Amparo (Alentejo)

D. Pedro de Cristo (1545/1550–1618)
Ave Maria

Margarida Simões, Inês Pimentel and Teresa Duarte, sopranos
Mariana Cardoso, Marta Queirós and Patrícia Manso, altos
Francisco O'Neill Cortes, João Castelo Branco and João Custódio, tenors
David Cunha, João Líbano Monteiro and Pedro Morgado, basses

André Ferreira, organ
Maria de Fátima Nunes, direction

Partnership: Arouca City Council - Support: Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte | Real Irmandade da Rainha Santa Mafalda de Arouca | Arouca Monastery - Concert included in the programme "Arouca - History of a Monastery: Historical recreation"

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BPI/"La Caixa" Foundation and Égide – Associação Portuguesa das Artes are Patrons of the 31st edition of the Alcobaça Music Festival

The Cistercian Route programme has the patronage support of the Millennium BCP Foundation