Lopes-Graça: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 28, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LOPES-GRAÇA
    • PERFORMER
      Matthias Bamert, Orquestra Sinfonica Do Porto Casa Da Música, Eldar Nebolsin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 28, 2013
    • UPC
      747313281770
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572817
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Concertos
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto - Casa da Música

      Performer: Eldar Nebolsin

      Conductor: Matthias Bamert

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto - Casa da Música

      Performer: Eldar Nebolsin

      Conductor: Matthias Bamert

    3. III. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto - Casa da Música

      Performer: Eldar Nebolsin

      Conductor: Matthias Bamert

    4. I. Tempo giusto

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto - Casa da Música

      Performer: Eldar Nebolsin

      Conductor: Matthias Bamert

    5. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto - Casa da Música

      Performer: Eldar Nebolsin

      Conductor: Matthias Bamert

    6. III. Vivo quasi cadenza

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto - Casa da Música

      Performer: Eldar Nebolsin

      Conductor: Matthias Bamert


The music of Fernando Lopes-Graca, one of the most significant Portuguese composers of the twentieth-century, went through several phases of development. Though rooted in folk music, it absorbed influences not only from much earlier composers such as Scarlatti and Seixas, but from contemporaries such as Bartok. These influences are potent in the Piano Concerto No. 1 of 1940, a highly personal, atmospheric and superbly orchestrated work imbued with bittersweet romanticism. Though the Iberian Baroque permeates it's finale, the Piano Concerto No. 2 is a much darker and more ambivalent work, marking a new milestone in his development.