Pedro Sousa Silva
Vicente Lusitano, Arte Minima
Performer & director
Released on 4 September 2026 by the German label note 1 music, this double album presents the sixteen five-part motets of Vicente Lusitano's (c.1520–c.1561) Liber primus epigramatum. It concludes the recording cycle begun with the six- and eight-part motets, released in 2025, completing the first ever integral recording of this collection — printed in Rome in 1551 by Valerio and Luigi Dorico — and covering all but three of Lusitano's surviving works, the overwhelming majority of his output.
Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti
Recorder — soloist · artistic director
Recorded after a two-year tour with Gli Incogniti, the album features Pedro Sousa Silva as first recorder in the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto. He also assisted Ottavia Rausa in the artistic direction of the recording.
Vicente Lusitano, Arte Minima
Performer & director
The first instalment in the recording of the complete motets of Vicente Lusitano's Liber primus epigramatum, presenting the six- and eight-part motets. The cycle was completed in 2026 with the release of the five-part motets.
Capella Sanctæ Crucis, Tiago Simas Freire
Performer
A collaboration with Tiago Simas Freire's Capella Sanctæ Crucis, featuring repertoire drawn entirely from the manuscripts of Santa Cruz de Coimbra.
Pedro Sousa Silva
Recorder — soloist
A sonic exploration of an instrument built by Fernando Paz, using a chant from a fifteenth-century manuscript.
Pedro Sousa Silva
Recorder — soloist
Two improvisations recorded in the studio during lockdown, following readings on ornamentation in fifteenth-century plainchant treatises.
Pedro Sousa Silva
Recorder — soloist
Sesquialtera, Pedro Sousa Silva
Performer & director
Originally conceived for the MEDREN 2021 conference in Lisbon, organised under the auspices of CESEM and ESMAE, the project paired live performances with academic papers. When Covid forced a change of plans, the works were recorded instead — and the results were released as an album of varied repertoire, reflecting the breadth of the conference programme rather than a single narrative thread.
Arte Minima
Performer & director
A challenge and an experiment for a renewed Arte Minima: recording an album without prior rehearsal, reading the works directly from manuscript sources.
Vozes Alfonsinas
Performer
Recorded in 2001 but released only in 2019, this was Pedro Sousa Silva's first collaboration with Vozes Alfonsinas — an ensemble with whom he has continued to perform ever since.
Arte Minima
Performer & director
The recording that marked the official founding of Arte Minima — made in response to a commission to record a sixteenth-century work for inclusion in a museum's permanent collection.
A Imagem da Melancolia
Performer & director
The fruit of Pedro Sousa Silva's doctoral research: an exploration of manuscript Braga 964, performed on his then newly acquired HIERS consort of recorders built by Adrian Brown, with an international ensemble of musicians he had studied and taught alongside at various points in his career.