Gulbenkian Choir a cappella
Le Cantique des cantiques
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation- Inês Tavares Lopes Conductor
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Gulbenkian Choir
Coro Gulbenkian was founded in 1964 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as a full symphonic body of around 100 singers. The choir joins the Orquestra Gulbenkian and other orchestras to perform Classical, Romantic and Contemporary choral-symphonic repertoire, but can also perform a cappella. It has performed – and often premiered – many 20th century works by Portuguese and international composers.
Coro Gulbenkian has been invited to collaborate with major international orchestras, under the direction of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Colin Davis, John Nelson, Emmanuel Krivine, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Frans Brüggen, Franz Welser-Möst, Gerd Albrecht, Michael Gielen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, René Jacobs and Leonard Slatkin, among others.
Besides its regular season of concerts in Lisbon and frequent national tours, Coro Gulbenkian has repeatedly toured Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macao, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Uruguay.
Coro Gulbenkian has recorded extensively for Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, Cascavelle, Musifrance, as well as FNAC-Music, performing a wide range of repertoire, from Early-Renaissance polyphony to Xenakis. Several of these albums received international awards.
Michel Corboz was the Principal Conductor between 1969 and 2019. Jorge Matta and Inês Tavares Lopes are currently the Associate and Assistant conductors, respectively.
György Ligeti
Lux aeterna
Francis Poulenc
Quatre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise
Arvo Pärt
Magnificat
Nunc dimittis
Daniel-Lesur
Le Cantique des cantiques
O Cântico dos cânticos, também conhecido como Cânticos de Salomão, é um dos livros presentes nas Bíblias hebraica e cristã. Recheado de poemas de amor, o Cântico integra a espiritualidade com o amor humano, descrevendo-o como sendo “forte como a morte”. Daniel-Lesur utilizou sete passagens deste livro numa obra para doze vozes a cappella, obtendo um resultado pleno de diferentes cores, virtuosismo e intimidade.
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