JULY 14 / Friday / 21h30
ÁTRIO DA CÂMARA MUNICIPAL DE TORRES VEDRAS
2 FINALIST WORKS IN COMPETITION
C. Debussy (1862 – 1918)
Sonata no 2 para flute, viola and harp
I. Pastorale
II. Interlude
III. Finale
E. Carrapatoso (n. 1962)
Cinco canciones para ensemble y voz emocionada
I. Preludio de la noche
II. Canción (primera)
III. Rasgos
IV. Canción (segunda)
V. Pórtico
The first edition of the Darcos International Composition Prize is a transversal invitation to the community, without any age or language limit. In the wake of commissions to various composers, which have been a constant feature of the Darcos Musical Season, the challenge is now open to all those who make composition their métier. All the works in the competition have as their starting point the same musical effect of Cinco canciones para ensemble y voz emocionada, op.68, by Eurico Carrapatoso (b. 1962). Premiered on November 13, 2015, they resulted from a commission by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, and were dedicated to the memory of Jorge Peixinho (1940-1995) on the twentieth anniversary of his death. The sorrowful poetry of Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) gains an elegiac dimension in the affectionate lyricism drawn by Carrapatoso. To the emotional timbre of a middle-soprano, with its contrasting vocal nuances, unfolds an emotional instrumental counterpoint, full of character, true poetry without words. Close to this ambience is the sonata for flute, viola, and harp by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). In 1914, at the suggestion of the famous editor Jacques Durand (1865-1928) he started a cycle of 6 sonatas in honor of 6 French composers of the 18th century. XVIII CENTURY FRENCH COMPOSERS. However, the project was never completed because of Debussy’s death in 1918. The second of the Six sonatas for different instruments was composed in 1915, during World War I, and presents an emotionally ambiguous musical landscape. Sometimes melancholy, sometimes joyful, hazy and shimmering, it seems to fly over a world beyond emotion. Confronted with why these moods, Debussy would reply “I can’t say whether one should laugh or cry. Perhaps both at the same time?”.