Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
A dialogue with history
Music in dialogue with history. So did Berta Alves de Sousa — one of the first women to conduct an orchestra in Portugal — when in 1950 she premiered this piece evocative of the 16th century Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama at the Palácio de Cristal (Oporto). At different times, Thomas Adès (2006) and Maurice Ravel (1914–1917) offered diffuse impressions of Baroque music on the pretext of the figure of François Couperin, the most important French composer between Lully and Rameau. Adès indulged in a commotion of fragments. Ravel did so ironically, recalling lost friends from the First World War. Memories aside, it's also an opportunity to get to know the work that won this year's Francisco de Lacerda Composition Prize. The concert is conducted by Bruno Borralhinho.
Programme
Thomas Adès (1971–)
Studies from Couperin (2006)
I. Les amusemens
II. Les tours de passe-passe
III. L’âme-en-peine
Berta Alves de Sousa (1906–1997)
Vasco da Gama, symphonic poem (1936)
Huayma Tulian
Ilha Imaginária* (2023)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Le tombeau de Couperin, M.68a (1914–1917 / Orq. M. Ravel 1919)
I. Prélude
II. Forlane
III. Menuet
IV. Rigaudon
*Winner of the 3rd Edition of the Francisco de Lacerda Composition Prize
Artists
Bruno Borralhinho, musical direction
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