Utrecht concert with standing ovation
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Officium Ensemble's concert in Utrecht Oudemusiek Festival, Saturday the 5th of September, was sold out since early July. Officium performed THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE TUDORS: BYRD, SHEPPARD AND TALLIS on a balanced and structured concert, getting a standing ovation for several minutes. Audivi vocem (Duarte Lobo) was the encore Officium Ensemble offered to the thrilled audience.
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\n\nIn our Utrecht Oude Muziek concert, Officium Ensemble focused on the splendour of Venice polyphony, around Adriaen Willaert’s Missa Quæramus cum pastoribus, which is based on the motet of the same name by his teacher Jean Mouton.
\n\nAs last year,we were touched at having received an enthusiastic prolonged standing ovation!
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Officium Ensemble, Ludovice Ensemble and Huelgas Ensemble teamed up to present "La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina", an opera by Francesca Caccini.
\n\nIn the words of the conductor Paul van Nevel, the opera La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina is an “almost unknown opera”, but also “a milestone in Italian music from the first half of the 17th century”.
\n\nWritten by Francesca Caccini, with a libretto by Ferdinando Saracinelli, this work had its première on 3 February 1625, at Villa di Poggio Imperiale, in Florence, on the occasion of the visit of Prince Wladyslaw Vasa, the heir to the Polish throne at that time. The work had been commissioned by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Maria Maddalena of Austria (who had married Cosimo de’ Medici), and, with this opera, whose libretto is full of references to both local and international political contexts of that time, her main aim was to make the Polish Crown Prince marry her daughter.
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\n\nThe concert was held during the 100th Anniversary of the Fatima Apparitions. Works by Alfredo Teixeira, Carlos Marecos, João Madureira, Nuno Côrte-Real, Rui Paulo Teixeira and Sérgio Azevedo, upon texts by Sister Lúcia, scored for 24 singers, accordion and piano.
\n\nOfficium Ensemble - Pedro Teixeira
\n\nAccordion: Octávio Martins
\n\nPiano: João Lucena e Vale.
\n\nGood job everyone!
\n\nCheck out a selection of photos of the performance here!
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\n\nOrgan | Sérgio Silva
\n\nDirector | Pedro Teixeira
\n\nIn this programme, Officium Ensemble focused on what many consider to have been the first global war. Portugal – under Habsburg Spanish rule since 1580 – tries to keep control of the Indies spice trade, while the Netherlands sends its own expeditions to take over one of the most valuable and profitable trade markets in the world at the time. Brazil and Africa were also targeted. During this period, Portugal regains its independency (1640) and manages to regain Brazil and Africa, but loses the Far East and South Asia.
\n\nThe concert revived these pugnacious times through a musical structure of period repertoire, interspaced by a series of sermons by Padre António Vieira (1608-1697). The Portuguese desire for independency, the struggle to keep an empire, and the political meanderings of such a troubled epoch were the key ingredients of this remarkable and surprising programme.
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