Duas Peças de Presente de Natal para as Crianças

Instrumentation: Children's Choir, Flute, Clarinet, Percussion (Tri, SusCym) and String Orchestra

Duration: 3 Minutes

Movements:

I. Os Pastores e o Menino

II. Caminham as Três Marias

Première: 30th November 2005

Igreja de São Roque, Lisbon, Portugal

Orchestra and Chamber Choir of the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília

Artur Carneiro (cond.)

Text: Traditional Portuguese Nativity texts (Portuguese)

From the original versions for children's choir and piano by Fernando Lopes-Graça  |  Orchestration by Pedro Faria Gomes

Commissioned by the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília