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Fernando LOPES-GRAÇA (1906–1994) Canções portuguesas Dos romances viejos • Oito canções da primeira cantata do Natal Três líricas castelhanas de Camões • Três canções corais Coro Casa da Música • Paul Hillier
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Fernando Lopes-Graça’s importance to 20th-century Portuguese music cannot be overestimated. His study of native songs and traditions has been compared to that of Bartók, and the soulful melodies of the Três canções corais are an early example of his highly effective integration of folk style into rigorous historically established forms. From the reverence and purity of the Christmas Cantata songs to the harmonic density of the Três líricas castelhanas de Camões , the powerful and often deeply moving combination of Lopes-Graça’s use of classical structure alongside his country’s musical heritage finds its zenith in his writing for voices. Key Features: • Paul Hiller ’s close to 200 recordings, including seven solo song recitals, have earned worldwide acclaim and won numerous prizes – Diapason d’or, GRAMMYs and Danish Radio P2 Prizes. Several have been Editor’s Choice in leading international music magazines, and they have been chosen as reference recordings in music anthologies. His books about Arvo Pärt and Steve Reich, together with numerous anthologies of choral music, are published by Oxford University Press. •
8.574309 Release Date: 14 Jun 2024 Companion Titles – Paul Hillier, Conductor
Coro Casa da Música has performed several world premieres, including works by Francesco Filidei, Michael Gordon, Gregory Rose, Manuel Hidalgo, Carlos Caires and a rediscovered work by Lopes-Graça. Its repertoire includes Portuguese premieres of prominent contemporary composers such as Birtwistle, Manoury, Dillon, Haas and Rihm, as well as other key figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, including Lachenmann, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Gubaidulina, Ligeti, Distler, Kagel and Cage.
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Click to listen to Três canções regionais portuguesas: Passarinha trigueira
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WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
Richard DANIELPOUR Songs in Three Languages – Songs of Love and Loss 1 Canti Della Natura 2 • Songs of My Father 3 (b. 1956)
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Hila Plitmann, Soprano 1–3 , Tambourine 1 • David Walther, Viola 3 Antonio Lysy, Cello 2 • Inna Faliks, Piano 2 • Marcia Dickstein, Harp 3 The Iranshahr Orchestra 1 • Shahāb Pāranj 1
Richard Danielpour has collaborated frequently with soprano Hila Plitmann, and this album features three recent works, two of which were written specifically for her. The song cycles heard here are sung in three languages central to the composer’s life. Songs of Love and Loss is in Farsi and sets the poetry of Rumi; Canti Della Natura , in Italian, takes sonnets attributed to Vivaldi in The Four Seasons ; while Songs of My Father is set to the English poems of Danielpour’s father. Each cycle features differing instrumentation and reflects Danielpour’s long-admired compositional subtlety and refinement. Key Features: • Richard Danielpour and Hila Plitmann have collaborated on no fewer than five different Naxos albums prior this one: Ancestral Voices on 8.578311-12, Darkness in the Ancient Valley on 8.559707, The Passion of Yeshua on 8.559885-86, Toward a Season of Peace on 8.559772 and String Quartet No. 7 on 8.559845. •
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Companion Titles – Richard Danielpour’s works featuring Hila Plitmann
Plitmann has sung many prestigious premiere performances under leading conductors. In February 2009, Plitmann was awarded the GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for her 2009 performance of Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan .
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Click to listen to Songs of Love and Loss: No. 2. Misterioso
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