Portuguese Music for Piano Duo
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96095
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 15th January 2021
Contents
Works
Sonatina for piano 4 handsBalada, op.126 (para uma crianca que vai nascer)
Storyboard
Melodias rusticas portuguesas, Book 3
Erinnerungen (Souvenirs), op.7
Artists
Luis Duarte (piano)Ligia Madeira (piano)
Works
Sonatina for piano 4 handsBalada, op.126 (para uma crianca que vai nascer)
Storyboard
Melodias rusticas portuguesas, Book 3
Erinnerungen (Souvenirs), op.7
Artists
Luis Duarte (piano)Ligia Madeira (piano)
About
The album opens fittingly with a set of Portuguese Folk Melody treatments by Lopes-Graça, the third in his three-volume set being dedicated exclusively to piano four hands. Immediately, the national colour welcomes listeners to the distinct ethnicity of Europe’s far southwestern corner, a historic and pre-historic crossroads for Celtic, Roman, Gothic and Moorish cultures. This is followed by the Sonatina of his student, Sérgio Azevedo, bristling with the Neoclassicism he inherited from Lopes-Graça. Then to the wellspring, Viana da Mota’s Opus 7 singing with a Mendelssohnian lyricism, yet nonetheless tinged with the innate longing of the Portuguese soul. The expressionistic, effusive atonality of Lapa’s Storyboard returns the listener to the modern era, and to finish, Victorino d’Almeida’s heartfelt Ballad (for a child about to be born) embraces melody and tonality once again, from a post-modern vantagepoint.
The fascinating liner note positions this multi-generational story of composers against the political backdrop of 20th-century Portugal, chronicling the struggles of many of them against the oppression of the Salazar dictatorship, and how the restrictions and subsequent freedoms after the ‘Carnation’ Revolution shaped their careers and creative output.
The piano duo of Luís Duarte and Lígia Madeira are at the vanguard of a young generation of world-class performers and music educators active in the cultural dynamo of Greater Porto, in the north of Portugal. Among their many individual activities is their duo collaboration, which they have enjoyed since 2008.
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