Sete Lágrimas

The spoken and sung word has, throughout the ages, shaped gestures of devotion - from the intimacy of daily prayer to the splendour of communal celebrations. It is at this meeting point, between individual and collective experience, that an intense spirituality is revealed, built from simple, direct expression, but also from silences, repetitions, and echoes. At the second concert in the Music in the Churches series, Sete Lágrimas looks back to the time when the word was already a prayer before it became a song, and the song became an echo of each community’s life. In both the church and the street, Iberian devotion will reveal itself in solemn, deeply emotional expressions.

This is the second concert from Música nas Igrejas, a program designed by Filipe Faria. Supported by a poetic narrative around the themes of birth, beginning and nativity, between the popular devotional of the 16th and 17th centuries and the sacred erudite from the 17th to the 20th century, it started with O dia – Entre a luz e a sombra no Barroco ibérico (The day - between the light and shadow of Iberian Baroque), by Concerto Campestre. The third concert is A beleza - Louvor no barroco italiano (Beauty – Praise in the Italian Baroque), by the ensembles Altos do Bairro and Coro Alto; and, to close, A noite - Mistério e Luz do Natal no mundo (The night – Mystery and light at Christmas around the world), by the Coro de Câmara do Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa.

Filipe Faria e Sérgio Peixoto artistic direction

Filipe Faria voice and percussion;
Sérgio Peixoto voice;
Pedro Castro flutes, baroque oboe, bagpipes;
Tiago Matias baroque guitar, romantic guitar, vihuela;
Mário Franco double bass;
Juan de la Fuente percussion