Raízes - Portuguese Chamber Music
Matosinhos String Quartet
They are all played with conviction and engagement. Just what you might expect from an ensemble who commissioned these works… all four are relaxed and often light of heart.
Raízes - Portuguese Chamber Music
Matosinhos String Quartet
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They are all played with conviction and engagement. Just what you might expect from an ensemble who commissioned these works… all four are relaxed and often light of heart.
About
Raízes (Portuguese for ‘roots’) features new works commissioned by the Matosinhos String Quartet, in which composers were invited to write works inspired by melodies, dances and stories from Portuguese traditional folklore. Returning to their heritage in North Portugal, Eurico Carrapatoso and Fernando C. Lapa both draw inspiration from Mirandese landscapes, dances and melodies. Telmo Marques’s Ilhas Afortunadas alludes to the mythologies surrounding the islands of the Azores and Madeira, and Sérgio Azevedo pays homage to Fernando Lopes-Graça and Béla Bartók’s pioneering work recording folk music in the field with his Popularuskia I.
Contents and tracklist
- Quarteto de Matosinhos
- Quarteto de Matosinhos
- Quarteto de Matosinhos
- Version for String Quartet
- Quarteto de Matosinhos
Awards and reviews
March 2023
They are all played with conviction and engagement. Just what you might expect from an ensemble who commissioned these works… all four are relaxed and often light of heart.
