Almeno Gonçalves (tenor)

Cupertinos, Luís Toscano

Lôbo, D: Audivi vocem de caelo
Lôbo, D: Missa Sancta Maria
Lôbo, D: Hodie nobis caelorum rex
Lôbo, D: Hodie nobis de caelo
Lôbo, D: Quem vidistis pastores?
Lôbo, D: O magnum mysterium
Lôbo, D: Beata Dei genitrix
Lôbo, D: Sancta et immaculata
Lôbo, D: Beata viscera
Lôbo, D: Verbum caro
Lôbo, D: Missa Elisabeth Zachariae
Lôbo, D: Alma redemptoris mater

No fewer than three important first recordings of works by Duarte Lobo feature on an album which is set to enhance Cupertinos’ burgeoning reputation. This is music with which they feel a natural kinship, as these intense, idiomatic performances attest.

"Directed by tenor Luís Toscano, Cupertinos is highly responsive to Lobo’s subtly varied settings which, in turn, reflect the nuances of text and liturgy...Throughout, the ensemble’s candid, unwavering sound, chiselled diction and incisive articulation reveal Lobo’s masterly contrapuntal writing." - BBC Music Magazine, November 2020
***** (Performance) / ****(Recording)