Câmara do Seixal presents music at Christmas and New Year

In December and January, Seixal City Council is holding a set of concerts alluding to Christmas and New Year.

They include the 33rd edition of the Christmas Concerts, as well as the Christmas concert Sopros de Natal e uma Guitarra Portuguesa and the New Year’s Concert by the Sinfonietta de Lisboa, both at the Municipal Auditorium of the Cultural Forum of Seixal.

«Seixal celebrates this season with culture. The City Council of Seixal invites, at the end of the year and at the beginning of 2023, all citizens and those who visit us to attend magnificent concerts in various spaces of excellence in our municipality», says the President of the City Council of Seixal, Paulo Silva.

33rd edition of the Christmas Concerts

Until the 18th of December, in the churches of the municipality and in the Moinho de Maré de Corroios, the following concerts will also take place:

December 17th, Saturday, 4:30 pm

• Polyphonic Choir by Fernão Ferro
• Fernão Ferro Church

December 18, Sunday, 5 pm

• AESCA Choir – Associação Espaço Sociocultural Adorar Artes
• Church of Arrentela

Sopros de Natal e uma Guitarra Portuguesa is the Christmas concert, with free admission, by the Ensemble de Sopros da Associação das Filarmónicas do Concelho de Leiria. It takes place on the 16th of December, Friday, at 9.30 pm, in the Municipal Auditorium of the Cultural Forum of Seixal.

The Ensemble de Sopros da Associação das Filarmónicas do Concelho de Leiria is a group formed by professionals who still maintain connections with their philharmonic bands in the region of Leiria. Its objectives are the dissemination of reference works for wind and percussion ensembles, with a special focus on original Portuguese music for these formations. In 2020, marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of L. V. Beethoven, he recorded a large part of this composer’s wind repertoire. In 2021, marking the centenary of Alfred Reed’s birth, he recorded some of his landmark works. He performed in the large Gulbenkian auditorium in 2021 on the occasion of the Young Musicians Festival. Currently, the artistic director is maestro, Alberto Roque. The concert they present in Seixal also features a soloist on the Portuguese guitar.

Program:

• Tradicional Elvas/ arr. C. Bochmann/ orq. A. Roque – «Eu hei de me ir ao Presépio»
• Frigyes Hidas – «Divertimento»
• Miguel Amaral – «Histórias do Oriente» (Guitarra Portuguesa – Miguel Amaral)
• Robert Spittal (1963) – «Consort for 10 Winds»
• Tradicional Elvas/ arr. C. Bochmann/ orq. A. Roque – «Olhei para o Céu»

The New Year’s Concert will be with the Lisbon Sinfonietta

January 8th at 5pm. +info

Founded in 1995, the Sinfonietta de Lisboa is based on 29 string instrumentalists, being able to integrate woodwinds or other instruments according to the requirements of the programs to be performed. Its direction is in charge of Vasco Pearce de Azevedo (principal conductor) and António Lourenço (assistant conductor).

One of the main objectives of the Sinfonietta de Lisboa, as a member of Associação Musical Ricercare, is to disseminate music from the 20th century, in particular by contemporary Portuguese composers. It is in this context that the various premieres that have been made of works commissioned from composers such as Eurico Carrapatoso, Bernardo Sassetti, Sérgio Azevedo, Carlos Fernandes, Vasco Pearce de Azevedo, Carlos Caires, Pedro Faria Gomes, and Ivan Moody are inserted. Also noteworthy are some of the first auditions in Portugal carried out by the Sinfonietta de Lisboa of works by 20th-century composers, such as Alexandre Delgado, Eugénio Rodrigues, and Luís Tinoco.

Program:

• W. A. Mozart, «Abertura “As Bodas de Fígaro” KV 492»
• F. Mendelssohn, «Noturno do Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão»
• L. v. Beethoven, «Abertura “As Criaturas de Prometeus”» Op. 43
• F. Mendelssohn, «3.º Andamento, da Sinfonia n.º4 “Italiana”» Op. 90
• L. v. Beethoven, «Abertura “Coriolano”» Op. 62
• F. Schubert, «III.º Entreacto de Rosamunde», D. 797
• J. Haydn, «3.º Andamento (Minueto) da Sinfonia nº 101 em Ré Maior “O Relógio”»
• J. Brahms, «Dança Húngara n.º 5»
• J. Strauss, «O Danúbio Azul»

Always confirm with the concert hall or promoter the conditions of access, confirmation of the date or time, tickets place of sale, price, and availability.

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