"Joy for Europe" - Gaudeamus

At the age of 80, Maestro António Victorino d'Almeida decided to design a unique work in all respects (it is believed that it was unpublished worldwide, given its theme) - a work that represents his fraternal embrace and love for all the peoples and cultures of the countries that make up the European Union…

Gaudeamus” – Cycle of Songs for Europe for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, is his Op. 100 and consists of 30 songs in all the languages ​​of the European Union countries on the theme of “Joy” - something that Europe is so in need of today - having for this purpose composed songs for poems by some of the most prestigious poets of these countries. : Yves Bonnefoy (France); Rainer Maria Rilke (Austria); Rainis (Latvia); Veselin Hanchev (Bulgaria); Anise Koltz and Michel Lenz (Luxembourg); Dobrisa Cesaric (Croatia); Einari Vuorela (Finland); Maria von Ebner Eschenbach and J.W. Goethe (Germany); Dun Karma Psaila (Malta); Albert Verwey (Netherlands); Jean Mogin (Belgium - French); Lucian Blaga (Romania); Xenophanes (Greece); Frederico Garcia Lorca (Spain); Wislawa Szymborska (Poland); Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (Portugal); William Buttler Yeats (Ireland – English); Kostas Mondis (Cyprus); Marie Under (Estonia); Milan Rufus (Slovakia); Kazys Binkis (Lithuania); Steen Steensen Blicher (Denmark); Herman van Snick (Belgium – Flemish); Maja Vidmar (Slovenia); Jaroslav Seifert (Czech Republic); Hjalmar Gullberg (Sweden); William Blake (England); Petofi Sandor (Hungary) and St. Francis of Assis (Italy).