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Love Stories
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Love Stories is a musical and poetic journey from the Renaissance to the present day and, at the same time, a tour through the diversity of love stories. Our journey will take us considerably further afield: from the carnal love to the divine love, from the platonic love to the conjugal love, from the unrequited love to the eternal love, the palette of amorous colours that opens up before our ears is wide, very wide. It's curious that, at very different times, the approaches to the theme sometimes have great similarities. Societies change, human beings change, but the importance of love in our lives remains unchanged. As Jorge Luis Borges wrote, “It seems easy to live without hatred, which I have never felt, but to live without love I find impossible.”
Programme
Cipriano de Rore (c. 1515–1565)
Ancor che col partire
Carlo Gesualdo (c. 1560–1614)
Io pur respiro in così gran dolore
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Sì, ch’io vorrei morire hora ch’io bacio amore, SV 89
John Dowland (1563–1626)
Can she excuse my wrongs
John Farmer (c. 1570–c. 1601)
Fair Phyllis
John Lennon (1940–1980) / Paul McCartney (1942), Arr. Keith Abbs
Can’t buy me love
Pierre Passereau (c. 1490–c. 1547)
Il est bel et bon
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Die Harmonie in der Ehe, Hob.XXVc:2
Franz Schubert (1797–1828), Arr. Carlo Marenco
Die schöne Müllerin, D.795
20.Des Baches Wiegenlied
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
3 Chansons de Charles d’Orléans, CD 99
1. Dieu ! qu’il l’a fait bon regarder !
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
3 Chansons, M.69
2. Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis
Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
Notre Père, Op. 14
Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
Five Part-Songs, H61
5. Come to me
Eric Whitacre (1970- )
A boy and a girl
Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906–1994)
Três Líricas Castelhanas de Camões, LG 25
1. Ojos, herido me habéis
Cole Porter (1891–1964), Arr. David Blackwell
Let’s do it, Let’s Fall in Love, from the musical Paris
Performers
Sérgio Fontão, musical direction
Claire Rocha, Marisa Figueira, Susana Duarte e Verónica Milagres da Silva, sopranos
Joana Nascimento, Marta Queirós, Patrícia Mendes e Rita Morão Tavares, altos
Artur Afonso, João Custódio, João Manuel de Barros e Pedro Miguel, tenors
José Bruto da Costa, Manuel Rebelo, Pedro Casanova e Rui Bôrras, basses
Partnership: Município de Leiria + Leiria Cultura + Castelo de Leiria
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Claire Rocha, Marisa Figueira, Susana Duarte e Verónica Milagres da Silva, sopranos
Joana Nascimento, Marta Queirós, Patrícia Mendes e Rita Morão Tavares, altos
Artur Afonso, João Custódio, João Manuel de Barros e Pedro Miguel, tenors
José Bruto da Costa, Manuel Rebelo, Pedro Casanova e Rui Bôrras, basses