João Rodrigues Esteves has been played on NTS in shows including The Monolith w/ PBDY, featured first on 27 June 2017. Songs played include Stabat Mater Dolorosa.

João Rodrigues Esteves was a Portuguese composer of the early eighteenth century and a key practitioner of Latin sacred composition whose surviving works number about 100. All of his manuscripts are located in Portuguese libraries, the majority of them in the Lisbon Cathedral archive. All that is known about Esteves is found in the marginalia of these manuscripts; the first mention of him dates from 1719, when he was sent to Rome under the aegis of King João…