Lopez-Graça: Complete Music for String Quartet and Piano, Vo

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
May 27, 2014
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LOPES-GRACA, FERNANDO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Quarteto Lopes-Graca
    • PERFORMER
      Prats, Cunha D?Almeida, Pimentel, Strynckx
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 27, 2014
    • UPC
      5060113442536
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0253
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. O Canto Amor e de Morte

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

      Performer: Olga Prats

    2. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

    3. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

    4. III. Scherzo-Fantasia

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

    5. IV. Giocoso

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

    6. V. Epilogo - Adagio

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

    7. I. Melancolico

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

    8. II. Danzante

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

    9. III. Scherzoso

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

    10. IV. In modo di Ninna Nanna

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça

    11. V. Gaio

      Composer: Fernando Lopes-Graça

      Ensemble: Quarteto Lopes-Graça


•As a committed socialist and Communist Party member, the Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906–94) faced repression during the years of Prime Minister's Salazar’s right-wing dictatorship (1932-1968). His works were banned and he was stripped of his official positions. Lopes-Graça responded in music, evolving a feisty, wiry Bartókian style that drew on Portuguese folk-music. This recording features Lopes-Graça’s own Bechstein piano, played by Olga Prats, who worked closely with him.