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Queen's College Chapel
The Queen's College
High Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 4AW
England
Programme
Manuel Mendes – Asperges me
Duarte Lobo – Missa de beata virgine Maria
Duarte Lobo – Audivi vocem de caelo
Aires Fernandez – Circumdederunt Me
Diogo Dias Melgás – Salve regina
Luis de Aranda – Quomodo sedet sola
Joan de Avila – Circumdederunt me
Estêvão de Brito – Heu Domine
Manuel Leitão de Aviles – Lamentations
Manuel Leitão de Aviles – In jejunio et fletu
Manuel Leitão de Aviles – Non est inventus
Manuel Leitão de Aviles – Adjuva nos
Performers
Owen Rees – Conductor
Contrapunctus
Programme Note
Oxford’s renowned early-music consort Contrapunctus brings to life masterworks of the rich Portuguese musical tradition of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the heart of the programme is Duarte Lobo’s radiant Missa de beata virgine, a masterpiece from the chapelmaster of Lisbon Cathedral. Alongside it are motets by Manuel Leitão de Aviles—an intriguing figure who worked in Granada—uncovered by the ensemble’s director, Owen Rees.
A rare opportunity to experience the splendour, expressiveness, and devotion of Portugal’s golden age of sacred music.
