Agenda Municipal / Music Orchestra XXI
Sun 27 Apr
Music for Families 2025 Programme - 8th Promenade Concert Cycle at Casa das Artes de Famalicão
Casa das Artes | Grand Auditorium - 17h00
Admission: 4 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (aged 65 and over): 2 euros | Rating: M/4 | Running time: 70 mins
In April, the Choir and Orchestra XXI celebrate Easter with a programme based on one of the great landmarks of late Romantic religious music: Gabriel Fauré's Requiem. Deviating from the dominant currents of his time, Fauré uses a vocal approach reminiscent of Gregorian chant and impressionistic harmonies to create a work that points to an intimate and contemplative vision of death. To open this concert, the orchestra will also perform Johannes Brahms' Serenade No. 2 - dedicated to Clara Schumann and considered by many to be his first orchestral work. Separating these two larger pieces, Coro XXI will bring to the stage Manuel Cardoso's six-voice motet Sitivit anima mea - a short reflection on death that will serve as a prelude to the Requiem, while honouring one of the leading authors of the golden age of Portuguese sacred polyphony.
Programme
Johannes Brahms — Serenade Nr 2 in A Major, Op. 16
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo. Vivace – Trio
III. Adagio non troppo
IV. Quasi menuetto – Trio
V. Rondo. Allegro
Manuel Cardoso — Sitivit anima mea
Gabriel Fauré — Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48
I. Introït et Kyrie
II. Offertoire
III. Sanctus
IV. Pie Jesu
V. Agnus Dei
VI. Libera me
VII. In Paradisum
Artistic profile
Choir and Orchestra XXI
Dinis Sousa, Musical Direction
Leonor Amaral, Soprano
Diogo Mendes, Baritone
23 readings