Performed by Kamerkoor JIP
www.kamerkoorJIP.nl

Subtitles available in Portugues, English and Dutch
Conductor | Imre Ploeg
Solo speaker | Pepijn Groenendaal
Video | Felipe Pipi

ROMANCE D'OCATIVO
Composer | F. Lopes Graça (1906–1994)

Fernando Lopes Graça was perhaps the most important Portuguese composer in the twentieth century. The melody of this song comes from the south of the Algarve, an area strongly influenced by the Moors from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. It describes the grieving for one of the most important losses in Portugal's history: King Sebastian lost a battle in Morocco, in which 14,000 soldiers died and 10,000 were captured.

JIP Chamber Choir is a project choir from Utrecht, the Netherlands, founded in 2013 by brothers Jonathan and Imre Ploeg. JIP wants to present new and unknown choir music from all over the world, brought together in surprising, engaging and fundamental themes like war and peace, the nomadic life, the refugee crisis and the ecological crisis.

For this project we worked together with the fantastic ensemble The Windsor Consort. We have immersed ourselves in the culture, language and music of Portugal.

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