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| SYMPHONIC / 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES ( 1 CD ) |
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Luis de Freitas Branco, who had studied with Désiré Pâque, César Franck and Humperdinck, was one of Portuguese music’s dominant figures during the first half of the 20th century. Joly Braga Santos is undoubtedly the most important Portuguese symphonist of the past century. Both musicians are present in this first CD of the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra.
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| VMS MUSICAL TREASURES - VMS 158 |
| Freitas Branco / Braga Santos |
| Orchestral and concertante works |
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Alexandre da Costa, violin
Orquesta Sinfónica de Extemadura
Conductor: Jesús Amigo |
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Luis de Freitas Branco (1890-1955)
Violin Concerto (1916)
Joly Braga Santos (1924-1988)
Encruzilhada (Crossroads) (Ballet, 1968)
Divertimento n.1 (1960)
1 CD - DDD - TT: 69:28 |
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Luis de Freitas Branco, who had studied with Désiré Pâque, César Franck and Humperdinck, was one of Portuguese music’s dominant figures during the first half of the Twentieth Century. From the 1920s onwards, he turned to a new diatonism and a personal form of neoclassicism, already present in his Violin Concerto from 1916. Freitas Branco opened a window to musical modernism in Portugal, including an atonal micro-poliphony that foresaw the techniques used after World War II.
Joly Braga Santos, who became the favourite disciple of Luis de Freitas Branco at the Music Conservatory of Lisbon, is undoubtedly the most important Portuguese symphonist of the Twentieth Century. During his initial creative phase, the Portuguese polyphony of the First and Second Renaissance and the Alentejo folklore were defining elements of the formation of his style. Then he turned to a free chromatism (Divertimento nº 1), and finally he was absorbing the leading influences of the Post Second World War Period, which is reflected in the music he composed after 1960. |
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