Aproveitai a azeitona - F. Lopes Graça

Performed by Kamerkoor JIP
www.kamerkoorJIP.nl

Subtitles available in Portugues, English and Dutch
Conductor | Jonathan Ploeg
Video | Felipe Pipi

APROVEITAI A AZEITONA
Composer | F. Lopes Graça (1906–1994)

Fernando Lopes Graça was perhaps the most important Portuguese composer in the twentieth century. This olive harvest song comes from Beira Baixa and was originally sung only by women.

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.