Christmas Mirrors – University of Lisbon Youth Choir and Chamber Choir

A journey through Portuguese and English choral music, with works by Fernando Lopes-Graça, Eurico Carrapatoso, Richard Rodney Bennett and John Tavener. This will be a conversation between cultures, space and sound, body and voice, providing an opportunity to listen to pieces which include Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia, Op. 27.

Programme

Cantemus, Lajos Bardos (1899-1986)

Ya las sombras de la noche, António Marques Lésbio (1639-1709)

Es nascido, Villancico, Dom Pedro de Cristo (1545/1550-1618)

Sã qui turo, Villancico, Anonymous, Monastery of the Holy Cross, Coimbra (16^th century)

Coventry Carol, English, anonymous (16^th century)

O, do not move, John Tavener (1944-2013)

Sweet was the song, Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)

Beati quorum via, Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Estas casas são mui altas, Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-1994)

Senhora da Lapa, Eurico Carrapatoso (b.1962)

Estando a virgem à borda do rio, José Croner de Vasconcelos (1910-1974)

José embala o menino, Eurico Carrapatoso

Acordai pastorinhas, Fernando Lopes-Graça

Bendito do Menino, Fernando Lopes-Graça

The Lamb, John Tavener

Lullay mine liking, Richard Rodney Bennett

A Hymn to Saint Cecilia, Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Nativity Carol, John Rutter (b.1945)

Érica Mandillo Artistic Director of the University of Lisbon Youth Choir Luís Almeida Artistic Director of the University of Lisbon Chamber Choir