Christmas Connection

Arcangelo Corelli’s Fatto per la Notte di Natale, better known as “The Christmas Concert”, brings us the pleasing sounds of the Baroque’s musical and harmonious dynamics. Romanticism will also feature, with Ave Maria from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Otello. In a world premiere, the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Pedro Teixeira da Silva, is a work of extreme beauty where the cello dialogues with the orchestra. The concert ends with Schubert’s Ave Maria (voice and string orchestra version).

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Concerto for Two Violins Nº8 Op. 6, Fatto per la notte di Natale

I. Vivace - Grave

II. Allegro

III. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio

IV. Vivace

V. Allegro

VI. Pastorale ad libitum: Largo

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Ave Maria (Otello Opera)

Pedro Teixeira da Silva (b. 1971) Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

I. Andante

II. Allegro com brio

III. Larghetto

IV. Allegro vivace

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Ave Maria (Pedro Pires arrangement)

Pedro Teixeira da Silva artistic direction

Délio Gonçalves conductor

Soloists

Pedro Meireles, Vitor Vieira violins

Rafaela Albuquerque soprano

Hugo Paiva cello

ORQUESTRA ORBIS

Pedro Meireles, Luís Santos, Carla Santos 1st violins

Vítor Vieira, Sónia Carvalho 2nd violins

Leonor Fleming, Teresa Beatriz Abreu violas

João Valpaços, Sofia Gomes cellos

Margarida Afonso double bass

Francisco Rodrigues production (orchestra)