Ensemble São Bernardo

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The Sacred and Eternal programme offers a journey through sacred music, from the Romantic to the contemporary period, through the prism of choral music.
This concert will celebrate various European composers, from Franz Schubert to Giocchino Rossini, passing through northern Europe as well as the east, invoking composers such as Ola Gjeilo and Ēriks Ešenvalds.
The leitmotif of prayer and asking for salvation is constant throughout the programme, alluding to the troubled times the world is going through, in a joint desire for peace shared by the musicians and the audience.
Sacred and Eternal is therefore also a plea for peace and rest in eternity for all those affected by the conflicts in the world, through the beauty and redemption conveyed by music.
The Ensemble São Bernardo will be directed by conductor Nuno Margarido Lopes, performing pieces accompanied by the piano and a capella.
We would also like to highlight the presence of Gabriel Fauré's music in this concert, in the year that marks the centenary of his disappearance.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Psalm 23, Op. 132

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Salve O Vergine Maria

Edward Grieg (1843-1907)
Ave Maris Stella

Ola Gjeilo (1978- )
Ubi Caritas
The Ground

Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Abendlied

Andrej Makor (1987- )
O Lux Beata Trinitas

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Ave Maria

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Ubi Caritas

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Cantique de Jean Racine

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
I Waited for the Lord
Verleih ins Frieden Gnädiglich

Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977- )
The Earthly Rose

Gustav Holst (1874-1874), arr. Z. Randall Stroope
Homeland

Artists
Marta Assunção e Carina Matias Ferreira, sopranos
Madalena Barão, Carmo Pereira Coutinho, contraltos
João Pedro Afonso, Tiago Caldas, tenors
Diogo Lopes, Frederico Paes, basses

Nuno Margarido Lopes, piano and musical direction

Partnership: 

Concert included in the programme "Arouca - History of a Monastery: Historical recreation"

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