Lançamento do “Fazendo” na Ilha Terceira

  By Luís Henriques | 18 de Maio de 2013 - 2:47 pm | ,
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Lançamento Fazendo TerceiraO Fazendo, boletim cultural para o qual colaboro, lança o seu número 85 hoje, pelas 21:30, em Angra do Heroísmo. Este tem sido um projecto com que venho colaborando há já uns quantos números. Apesar de ser uma ligação meramente virtual, potenciada pela troca de emails, sinto uma forte empatia com este periódico que, apesar das vicissitudes do momento, não só tem sobrevivido mas tem-se expandido para fora dos limites geográficos do Faial (primeiro Pico, e agora Terceira) e desenvolvido uma actualização de conteúdos e aspecto gráfico. Um projecto a não perder de vista. (mais…)

Gesualdo Year

  By Luís Henriques | 16 de Maio de 2013 - 10:00 am |
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Carlo GesualdoIt might sound as if I forgot that this year is Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613) anniversary. Not at all, since his music was among the first Renaissance works I began to listen. This will be the first of a series featuring music by Gesualdo, starting from the sacred repertoire to the six books of madrigals.

How to describe Gesualdo’s music? Well, Gesualdo is… Gesualdo. A unique composer with a particular unorthodox way of writing music, almost insane (some say). (mais…)

Christopher Page – The Christian West and It’s Singers

  By Luís Henriques | 15 de Maio de 2013 - 5:09 pm | ,
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The Christian West and It’s Singers: The First 1000 Years

A renowned scholar and musician presents a new and innovative exploration of the beginnings of Western musical art. Beginning in the time of the New Testament, when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background, Christopher Page traces the history of music in Europe through the development of Gregorian chant – a music that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear – to the invention of the musical staff, regarded as the fundamental technology of Western music. (mais…)

Tomas L. de Victoria’s “O Sacrum Convivium”

  By Luís Henriques | 24 de Abril de 2013 - 12:34 pm | ,
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VictoriaSuggested by a friend (who didn’t know the amazing work she was singing…), here is one of the most interesting motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria I have ever listen to. What amazed me most in this work was its – I may called it – micro polychoral structure. The motet is set for six voices (SAATTB) but, in this texture another polychoral texture emerges, with 3 or even 4 paired voices, that gives a whole new dimension to this work. It is a good example of the mastery of six-voice settings by late mannerist composers. The motet was published in the 1572 book of motets and in the the following books. (mais…)