Intimate concerts in the early morning

Lamentations 2020

Lamentations 2020 Lamentations 2020

The background

Lamentations 2020

For years, the Netherlands Bach Society has been performing lamentations in the early morning of Good Friday and Holy Saturday, prior to the St Matthew Passion.

Heart-rending words from the Book of Jeremiah.“

In 2020, some of the singers in our ensemble will perform a programme compiled by João Moreira. He has selected some wonderful Portuguese late-Renaissance music for Holy Week, including works by Estevão Lopes Morago, Duarte Lobo, Filipe de Magalhães and Francisco António de Almeida.

The concert

Works and Performance

Works

ESTEVÃO LOPES MORAGO
Versa est in luctum
De profundis

FREI MANUEL CARDOSO
Nos autem gloriari oportet
Lamentations for Maundy Thursday
Mulier Quae Erat in Civitate Peccatrix

DIOGO DIAS MELGÁS
In jejunio et fletu

DUARTE LOBO
Pater Peccavi

FILIPE DE MAGALHÃES
Commissa mea pavesco

FRANCISCO ANTÓNIO DE ALMEIDA
Lamentations for Holy Saturday

DUARTE LOBO
Audivi vocem de caelo

Performers

Singers of the Netherlands Bach Society