The NOVA Choir returns to Concerts with the recital “Nativitas Domini – Music from Advent to Epiphany”, a Christmas programme that brings together some of the most expressive and evocative pieces from the Nativity celebrations and the period of reflection and hope that precedes them.
The concerts are free of charge and take place on the following dates
Friday 29 November, 21:30 – Church of Boa Hora, Ajuda
Saturday 30 November, 5pm – Noble Hall of the Academy of Sciences, Lisbon
Sunday 1st December, 3pm – Church of Santo António de Lisboa, Lisbon
This is a journey through songs that some of the greatest composers in the history of music have created over the last 500 years, from the 16th century to the present day, to celebrate Christmas. Some of these works have become universal hymns, while others, although less well known, are also little jewels of great beauty.
Among the composers, the Iberian polyphonists Tomás Luís de Vitoria and D. Pedro de Cristo stand out; Felix Mendelsohn, one of the exponents of Romanticism in music; Max Reger and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who were at the forefront of their time, the transition from the 19th to the 20th century; and their contemporaries John Rutter, from the British choral tradition, and the American Peter Anglea, with his infectious music. The programme also includes a work by Diogo Gonçalves, principal conductor of the Coro da NOVA.
The concerts will be conducted by Diogo Gonçalves, with Nicholas McNair at the piano.
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