Lyvro da Ilha de Mactan – Música de Natal Ibérica e da Diáspora dos Séculos XV e XVI · Sete Lágrimas
More that 500 years after the departure of Fernão de Magalhães (1480-1521) for the first circumnavigation of the globe (1519-1522), Lyvro de Ilha de Mactan shares the voyage of Magalhãens and Elcano and its sounds. The fleet made a stopover in the Canary Islands, reaching the coast of South America. After many misfortunes, he entered the waters of the South Sea, baptizing this ocean as Pacific in contrast to the difficulties encountered in the Strait. The journey proceeded always with great difficulty. He looked at the sky and was the first European to identify two irregular dwarf satellite galaxies of our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye only in the southern hemisphere and later called “Magellan Clouds”. Magalhães died in battle on Mactan Island, in the Philippines, in 1521, at the hands of Lapu-Lapu (1491-1542), governor of the Island... But this would be another journey, as if Magellan had followed other paths inspired by another science or instinct... as if I hadn’t died...
Programme
Lyvro primeiro: Jornada da Europa
San Giuseppe e la Madonna, traditional (Itália/Lombardia)
Senhora del mundo, vilancico anónimo (séc. XVI)
Folia, Gaspar Sanz (ca.1640-1710)
Pues que veros, Filipe Faria and Sérgio Peixoto about anonymous poem (séc. XVI)
Lyvro segundo: Jornada da América
Xicochi conetzintle, Gaspar Fernandes (1570-1629)
Magos que a palacio vais, Gaspar Fernandes (1570-1629)
Variação sobre Seguiriya, traditional (Andaluzia)
Lyvro terceiro: Jornada da Oceania
Ko le le mai, traditional (Timor)
Lyvro quarto: Jornada da Ásia
Jizuki-Uta, traditional (Japão)
O Divan de Mogará, traditional (Goa/Índia)
Lyvro quinto: Jornada de África
Yamukela, traditional (África do Sul/Moçambique) about arrangement of Arnaldo Taveira Araújo
Salelaka mokonzi, traditional (Congo)
Lyvro último: Jornada que não chegou...
Mosé salió de Misraim, anonymous novel
Ysabel y mas Maria, Filipe Faria and Sérgio Peixoto about anonymous (séc. XVI)
Tarantella, traditional (Italy), arrangement Tiago Matias
El noi de la mare, traditional (Spain/Catalonia)
El pesebre, Filipe Faria and Sérgio Peixoto about text of Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
Sete Lágrimas
Filipe Faria and Sérgio Peixoto, artistic direction
Inês Lopes, choir conductor
Filipe Faria, voice, percussion
Sérgio Peixoto, voz voice
Joana Devesa, recorder
Tiago Matias, vihuela, baroque guitar, romantic guitar, theorbo
João Hasselberg, double bass
Juan de la Fuente, percussion
Inês Tavares Lopes, soprano
Mónica Beltrão, soprano
Sofia David, soprano
Bianca Varela, alto
Estrela Martinho, alto
Jorge Leiria, tenor
Simão Pourbaix, tenor
Henrique Coelho, bass
Miguel Carvalho, bass
Miguel Jesus, bass
Founded in Lisbon, in 1999, by Filipe Faria and Sérgio Peixoto, Sete Lágrimas focuses on dialogues between Early and Contemporary Music – and erudite music with centuries-old traditions – and brings together musicians from different musical backgrounds. It is considered by critics as one of the most relevant and innovative European projects in the field of Early Music. In 2024, Filipe Faria and Sérgio Peixoto create the project L3 Leipzig Lisboa Luanda (after Bach), premiered at both the GREC Festival and the Bachcelona Festival, and expanded into a series of screendances directed by Filipe Faria with Angolan dancer Fábio Krayze. The project is the 16th title in the consort's discography. In 2025 and 2026, Sete Lágrimas will release, in a trilogy, the complete Cancioneiro de Elvas, a Portuguese manuscript from the 16th century and one of the most important sources profane music in the Iberian Peninsula.
Sete Lágrimas have been sponsored by the Ministry of Culture (Portuguese Government) and the Directorate General for the Arts, and, since 2012, by the Municipality of Idanha-a-Nova – UNESCO Creative City of Music.
Church of São João de Deus Inaugurated in 1953, designed by architect Antonio Lino, the structure stands out in three separate naves, converging towards the main altar, lit by a central tower. It has collected part of the assets of the old Church of Socorro, destroyed during the demolitions of Martim Moniz (several cult implements and furniture, including the chest in use in the sacristy). Also worth mentioning is its contemporary artistic collection, made up of sculptures by Leopoldo de Almeida and Soares Branco (several statues, including that of the Patron Saint and two archangels suspended on the main exterior wall), paintings by Domingos Rebelo (triptych of the main altar , with episodes from the life of S. João de Deus) and by the ceramics of Jorge Barradas (colored ceramic relief on the baptismal font, representing the baptism of Christ).