Musical Direction: Purcell & more

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I'm the musical director of several groups. My work is progressing around vocal music, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque.

Dido & Æneas is small masterpiece: the last opera by Henry Purcell (1659-1695). He have divulged the englishman's opera throughout all of Portugal.

I have a particular appreciation for the Italian seicento with its fantasy.
Dario Castello (ca. 1590–ca. 1630) is one of my favourites.

The music from the Iberian Peninsula from the Age of Troubadours (11th-14th centuries) is another of my singled out areas. Moreover, there are not abundant opportunities to listen this music performed by portuguese musicians. Even if we share the same southwestern extremity of Europe, we are apart from the spaniards in our way of life.

Dido & Æneas: Pursue thy conquest love

Dido & Æneas: Remember me

La Nave Va
Soloists

• Dido: Maria Luísa Tavares
• Æneas: Armando Possante
• Belinda: Sónia Alcobaça

Orchestra

• Dennys Stetsenko & Raquel Cravino: baroque violin
• Lúcio Studer: viola
• Duncan Fox: violone
• Marta Vicente: double bass
• Jenny Silvestre: harpsichord

Choir: Grupo Vocal Olisipo.
recorder & musical direction: António Carrilho.

Martin Codax: Ondas do Mar de Vigo

Soprano: Rosa Caldeira.

Alfonso X: Como poden per sas culpas

Soprano: Raquel Alão.

Dario Castello: Sonata X

Banchetto Musicale Lusitania

• voice: Rosa Caldeira, Raquel Alão, José Pedro Bruto da Costa
• lute & ud: José Manuel Tavares
• viola da gamba: Kenneth Frazer
• harp: Ana Isabel Dias
• percussion: Rita Caldeira Cabral
• dulcian: Hughes Kestermann
• recorder, voice & musical direction: António Carrilho