GL52 Da Vinci's Sketches

Performed and Recorded by Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble
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花非花
白居易

花非花 雾非雾
夜半来 天明去
来如春梦几多时
去似朝云无觅处

flower isn’t flower
By BAI Juyi

Flower? No flower.
Mist? No mist.
At midnight comes,
At dawn leaves.
Comes like a spring dream, for how long?
Leaves like morning clouds, nowhere to be found.
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Flower Isn't Flower

CCM Chorale

Maestro - Gonçalo Lourenço

Gonçalo Lourenço - GL 60, Shakespeare Thoughts, para Coro a Cappella

CCM Choral
Maestro - Matthew Swope

Obra encomendada pelo Santuário de Fátima para o VI concerto evocativo dos três pastorinhos de Fátima, por ocasião da celebração do centenário da morte de Santa Jacinta Marto.

Gonçalo Lourenço - GL 27, Nº7: Fecha os Olhos

Cetóbriga Chamber Choir
Maestro: Gonçalo Lourenço

Convento de Jesus 04.2022

Rick Arnest - Universal Language

Gonçalo Lourenço's Oratorio "From the Ashes", for Orchestra, SATB Chorus, SATB soloists, Evangelist and Projection.

Duration: 40:00
Instrumentation: (2.2.2.2, 0.0.1.1, Timp., 3 perc., harp, piano, organ, SATB choir, SATB soloists, recitant, projection and strings)

Composer - Gonçalo Lourenço
Libretto - Pedro Jorge
Projection - André Alves

Soprano - Martha Eason
Mezzo - Amber McKoy
Tenor - Travis Bloom
Baritone - Edward Graves
Evangelist - Serena Künzler

IU Chorale
IU Conductor's Orchestra
Maestro - Gonçalo Lourenço

Video - Willy Michel

The oratorio From the Ashes, GL 29, was inspired by the Sílabas de Apocalípse (Syllables of the Apocalypse) by the Portuguese poet Pedro Jorge (b. 1936). My musical voice was inspired by the goal of fusing various harmonic languages and idioms of  Western classical music: tonal, atonal, modal, and serial approaches to harmonic organization, and the use of leitmotifs and folk songs.

Influenced by the Book of Revelation, Jorge’s apocalypse uses a similar framework but with different images and events. In the Book of Revelation, John writes seven letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor. In Jorge’s Sílabas de Apocalípse (Syllables of the Apocalypse), the unidentified protagonist (perhaps Jorge himself) writes seven letters to the peoples of the world: the slums of the north, the barrios of the south, and so on. The letters warn that the earth will be destroyed because of the selfishness and incompetence of human leaders. There are no biblical figures or references, and salvation is ultimately achieved through the birth of the sunflower.
In the Book of Revelation, the Lamb with the seven horns and seven eyes appears on earth and calls seven heavenly creatures who will be given seven trumpets to destroy everything that lives. In Jorge’s vision it is a chameleon who is sent to destroy the planet. Each of the seven times the chameleon opens its mouth, it emits evil in the form of a grotesque animal - War, Fear, Disease, Greed, Pollution, Anguish and Oppression - which helps it to complete the task of destruction.
In John’s vision, “the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it [the New Jerusalem]”   are rescued from the destruction and will become part of the New Heaven, New Earth and New Jerusalem. In the Sílabas, the survivors gather near a charred  tree. From that tree a Sunflower (which may or may not be a reference to Christ)  bursts, and mankind is reunited around it. 


Oratorio, "From The Ashes", for Orchestra, Choir, Soloists, Evangelist and Projection, GL 29

Gonçalo Lourenço, Conductor 
陳乃嘉Nai-Chia Chen, solo soprano

Female Choir
Brooke Emily Vance, Synthia Steiman, Cecilia Ratna, Rebecca Ehren, Sulgi Kim, Gabrielle L. Reed, soprano
Ruthie Chase, Kaitlyn Kdubbs Williams, Jenna Stewart, Annie Chester, Patricia Wallinga, Yulin Yu, Bridget Foley, alto

江城子Jiang Cheng Zi for solo soprano and female choir

Ensemble Polaris

Sop: Joana Camacho, Rebeca Bento, Raquel Pedra, Sofia David
Alt: Maria João Abreu, Ana Sofia Saraiva, Frederico Costa
Ten: João Castelo Branco, Mário RIbeiro
Baixo: Manuel Rebelo

Dir: Gonçalo Lourenço

Andys Skordis - Me...ti...me...

Pegadas na Maresia

Poemas de José Grácio


1. Praia

“A vaga branca dissolvendo a curva d’areia”


2. Verbum

“Sou a nossa vontade feita luz,
o som inicial do Universo”


3. Colo

“No riso breve da tua pele em flôr,
a seiva da vide enlaça como um rio,
frescura salgada do teu sereno amor”


4. Abraço

“No embalo, vem a fria madrugada.
Afagas a barba, ainda desperta.
Canto a ternura pela noite encoberta
e voas sorrindo na minha almofada”


5. Dança

“Salta para o mar dos vossos braços,
em alegria constante que a faz crescer.
Dançando sobre a espuma do anoitecer
os tempos soltam-se dos compassos,
no manto de Estrela feita Mulher”

Gonçalo Lourenço - Pegadas Na Maresia, GL62 - Alexandra Bernardo, Soprano  Gonçalo Simões, Piano

Duo Concêntrico

Violino - Josefina Alcaide
Piano - Gonçalo Simões

"Ao mesmo tempo, é uma cor e uma não-cor. Quando a luz reflecte no preto, transforma-a e transmuta-a. Abre um campo mental próprio" (Pierre Soulages).

 O artista plástico Pierre Soulages, também é conhecido como "o pintor negro". Vê na luz uma matéria com a qual trabalhar; esticando a superfície preta de suas pinturas, permite que o preto saia da escuridão para a luz, tornando-se assim numa cor luminosa. 
Nesta peça, dedicada ao Duo Concêntrico, o conceito é o mesmo: transformar o negro em luminoso através de diferentes texturas, timbres e tessituras. Iniciando no âmbito grave dos dois instrumentos (Violino e Piano), a música vai subindo de intensidade e de altura, chegando ao clímax no oposto da tessitura, aguda e estridente, dando a ideia de que, ao trabalhar texturas sonoras, também é possível modificar o negro em luz.

GL 61, Outrenoir, para Violino e Piano

Coro Misto da Universidade de Coimbra

Maestro - Rodrigo Carvalho

Oratorio, "From The Ashes", for Orchestra, Choir, Soloists, Evangelist and Projection, GL 29

Goncalo Lourenco