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Rains over Faith and Sorrow is a small mirror in which our reality and our history as humanity are reflected through music. Centuries of marginalization and subjugation have left deep and sometimes, dark imprints on our collective memories. But music has the power to transform all that may appear desolate and disconsolate, into a celebration of mankind’s passion and strength in its battle against daunting adversities.

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On the one hand, the album places us in medieval Europe, in which the Codex Buranus (S. XII-XIII) conveys the life and truth of those who remained marginalized in society. The boldness, courage and intensity of these songs express their strength. On the other hand, medieval monastic singing proclaims charity through the pure and simple works composed by the Doctor of the Church, Hildegard V. Bingen (S. XII) as well as by other medieval poems that also evoke charity as the axis of human integrity and unity. Entering the colonial Spanish-American period, indigenism and slavery raise their voices in the Peruvian Codex of Martinez Compañón (S. XVIII) and in the work of the Spanish Juan de Arañés (S. XVII).

LISTEN TO OUR FVERY FIRST ALBUM.

  A Documentary on the life of the Goan Activist, Aquino Braganza. The GU CHOIR has recorded the original soundtracks for this documentary which has won important awards at a number of film festivals around the world. Original music composed by our Artistic Director, Santiago Lusardi Girelli. A film by the Goan filmmaker Nalini De Sousa.

Live recordingin February 2019, of two of the longest pieces of Western choral music:  the Choral Fantasy and  Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig Van Beethoven, at the Jamshed Baba Hall, NCPA-Mumbai, conducted by the acclaimed Maestro Martin Brabbins.

 A Documentary by the Spanish Filmmaker, Sandor Salas which describes the co-existence experience lived by artists from different religions and cultures during the first edition of the Ketevan Sacred Music Festival, celebrated at the UNESCO Heritage City of Old Goa in Feb 2016. The GU CHOIR hosted more than 70 artists from around 15 countries that attended this spectacular festival of Cultural and Musical co-existence.