Coro Perosi is a non-profit making music organization established since 1997. Since then, we had organized several concerts and had been invited for performances in Hong Kong and Zhongshan. By year 2002, we had participated in the 6th International Music Festival in Beijing, China; and had won the copper prize. Besides regular practices, we also invite individual voice soloists to train our members. We are an energetic choir in Macau.
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Coro Perosi Annual Concert 2026 Echoes of Harmony: Renaissance to Baroque (弦 • 延)
Coro Perosi will present its annual concert, Echoes of Harmony: Renaissance to Baroque (弦 • 延), on Saturday, 21 November 2026 and Sunday, 22 November 2026, at 8:00 p.m. in the Church of St. Joseph’s Seminary (accessible via the entrances on Rua de São Roque or Largo do Seminário).
Through sacred music masterpieces from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the concert explores the tension between humanity’s deepest longings and enduring faith as expressed through music.
The entire program unfolds like a single emotional string, stretching from hushed whispers to soaring exaltation. Each work continues a shared musical spirit, weaving together an extended poetic narrative of voices and organ music. Strings • Continuum invites audiences on a journey through contemplation, struggle, hope, and triumph.
The 2026 annual concert of Macau’s Coro Perosi centers on this theme, presenting sacred music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras that reveals how music carries profound human aspirations and convictions. Like a resonant string extending through time, the program traces an emotional arc from intimacy to grandeur.
The first half focuses on a cappella Renaissance sacred music, featuring several works by Portuguese composers. The program opens with Tantum Ergo, followed by compositions by Cardoso, Martins, and Melgaz, whose serene harmonies portray the soul’s struggles and solitude. Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus then offers a contrasting moment of luminous clarity, expressing a yearning as fervent as the deer’s longing for flowing waters. Lobo’s Audivi Vocem de Caelo evokes a heavenly voice through vivid choral sonority, while Escobar’s Clamabat Autem Mulier Chananea presents a dramatic dialogue of faith and supplication, creating a profoundly spiritual atmosphere.
The second half moves into the Baroque period, where the music gains heightened dramatic power. Purcell’s Jehova, Quam Multi Sunt Hostes Mei and Gluck’s De Profundis continue the emotional theme of crying out from the depths. The mood then shifts toward joy and illumination with Monteverdi’s Cantate Domino and Pachelbel’s Magnificat. Bach’s Jesu, Meine Freude speaks of the comfort and consolation found in faith. The concert concludes with Handel’s magnificent Hallelujah, whose brilliance forms a powerful emotional and aesthetic counterpart to the quiet contemplation of the first half.
Together, these works create a journey of spiritual reflection and musical transcendence, linking the introspective beauty of the Renaissance with the expressive grandeur of the Baroque.
