Freitas Branco

Alessio Bidoli, Bruno Canino, Alain Meunier - Freitas Branco - Complete Violin Sonatas and Piano Trio (2022)

Alessio Bidoli, Bruno Canino, Alain Meunier - Freitas Branco - Complete Violin Sonatas and Piano Trio (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:16:34 | 343 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Sony Classical

Alessio Bidoli As a soloist he has performed in prestigious concert seasons, including: MITO Settembre Musica, Società del Quartetto and Società dei Concerti of Milano, Furcht-Bocconi University, Amici del Loggione del Teatro alla Scala, Fondazione Musica Insieme di Bologna, Amici della Musica di Sondalo, Arvedi Auditorium in Cremona, Bergamo Culture Festival.
He had a leading role with Vittorio Sgarbi at the Teatro di Chiasso, Switzerland, in the theatre project Il Fin la Maraviglia, a report about the Baroque age through images and sounds.

Trío Pangea - Portuguese Piano Trios, Vol. 2 (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 13, 2019
Trío Pangea - Portuguese Piano Trios, Vol. 2 (2019)

Trío Pangea - Portuguese Piano Trios, Vol. 2 (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 282 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 143 Mb | 01:02:03
Classical | Label: Naxos Records

Chamber music played a substantial role in the renewal of Portuguese music that took place during the 20th century. Freitas Branco’s kaleidoscopic Trio has an experimental feel, brimming with his typical rhythmic fluidity and sweeping melodic style, while Frederico de Freitas’s Preludio, coral e fuga is both colorful and technically impressive. Braga Santos’s infectious lyricism is evident in his Trio, and the origins of Delgado’s Trio Camoniano as a sequence of songs connects the worlds of classical music and fado. Volume 1 of Trio Pangea’s ‘superbly played’ (MusicWeb International) Portuguese Piano Trios can be heard on Naxos as well.
Camerata Atlântica, Ana Beatriz Manzanilla - Bows Up!: Portuguese Music for Strings (2021)

Camerata Atlântica, Ana Beatriz Manzanilla - Bows Up!: Portuguese Music for Strings (2021)
FLAC tracks | 56:57 | 281 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Portuguese orchestral music was scarce until the 20th century, when composers were able to build on the great legacy of Luís de Freitas Branco. António Fragoso died young, and the Concerto romântico is a new adaptation of his Suite romantique, orchestrated to reflect influences from Fauré and early Debussy. Joly Braga Santos’s Concerto in D Minor is one of his best-loved early works, blending Alentejo folk songs with the sophistication of Vaughan Williams and Walton. Sérgio Azevedo is renowned for his neo-Classical style, shaping a narrative of darkness to light in the Sinfonietta, and reviving the concerto grosso in his homage to Bartók, the Music for Strings.
Bruno Borralhinho, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Pedro Neves - Portuguese Music For Cello & Orchestra (2016)

Bruno Borralhinho, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Pedro Neves - Portuguese Music For Cello & Orchestra
Classical, Orchestral | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 65:04 min | 252 MB
Label: Naxos | Tracks: 08 | Rls.date: 2016

This recording brings together for the first time some of Portugal's leading composers in a unique programme dedicated to their works for cello and orchestra. The impressionistic and luxuriant harmonies of Luiz Costa's Poema contrast with Fernando Lopes-Graça's sombre and austere Concerto da Camera, a commission from Mstislav Rostropovich. Luís de Freitas Branco's Cena Lírica is an early, romantically expressive piece, while the Concerto by his eminent pupil Joly Braga Santos is a hauntingly poetic symphonic masterpiece.
Bruno Monteiro & João Paulo Santos - Szymanowski / Bloch / Korngold: 20th Century Expressions (2023)

Bruno Monteiro & João Paulo Santos - Szymanowski / Bloch / Korngold: 20th Century Expressions (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 244 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 150 Mb | 01:05:01
Classical | Label: Etcetera Records

One of Portugal´s leading classical musicians, Bruno Monteiro is herald by Opus Klassiek as a “top violinist” and by Musical Opinion as an “admirable artist”.
Bruno Monteiro & João Paulo Santos - Franck & Grieg: Debut (2023)

Bruno Monteiro & João Paulo Santos - Franck & Grieg: Debut (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 210 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 121 Mb | 00:52:38
Classical | Label: Etcetera Records

One of Portugal´s leading classical musicians, Bruno Monteiro is herald by Opus Klassiek as a “top violinist” and by Musical Opinion as an “admirable artist”.
Bruno Monteiro & João Paulo Santos - Brahms / Fauré / Respighi / De Sarasate: in Recital (2023)

Bruno Monteiro & Joao Paulo Santos - Brahms / Fauré / Respighi / De Sarasate: in Recital (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 301 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | 01:04:21
Classical | Label: Etcetera Records

One of Portugal´s leading classical musicians, Bruno Monteiro is herald by Opus Klassiek as a “top violinist” and by Musical Opinion as an “admirable artist”.
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1998)

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 65:11 | 290 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Marco Polo | Catalog: 8.225087

There has not been much of a symphonic tradition in Portugal, but this century has thrown up two symphonists of some significance – Luis de Freitas Branco (brother of the conductor Pedro), who is absent from the catalogues, and, more importantly, his pupil Joly Braga Santos, whose own protege Alvaro Cassuto is opening our eyes and ears to his stature. His First and Fifth Symphonies (Marco Polo, 7/98) came as something of a revelation: here again we have one work from each of his two contrasting compositional periods.
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 (1998)

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:16 | 310 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Marco Polo | Catalog: 8.223879

Hearty thanks to Marco Polo for finding another lost gem. Braga Santos (1924-1988) was born in Portugal and, through his teacher, Luis de Freitas Branco, inherited a fondness for music that mixed elements of Modernism with Portuguese Renaissance polyphony. Yet Vaughan Williams is the greatest influence in Braga Santos's music. Braga Santos, like Vaughan Williams, hunted down and extensively used folk melodies, folk songs, and anonymous sacred compositions for church services.

Aldina Duarte - Contos De Fados (2011)  Music

Posted by SuniR at June 23, 2017
Aldina Duarte - Contos De Fados (2011)

Aldina Duarte - Contos De Fados (2011)
EAC | FLAC (log,tracks+cue) -> 234 Mb (5% Rec.) | Mp3 CBR320 Kbps -> 95 Mb (5% Rec.) | Scans -> 44 Mb
Folk, World, Fado | Label: Roda-La Music, #: 0249-2 | 0:40:36

Contos De fados, the title of the fourth album from Aldina Duarte. Made of eleven original songs written from literary works, Portuguese and foreign, in various styles, all sung in traditional melodies of fado, Aldina Duarte is accompanied by the musicians Carlos Manuel Proença, viola, and José Manuel Neto on guitar Portuguese Paulo Ferreira Parreira Roger and Miguel Ramos. Books translated into traditional fado. Thus one can summarize the fourth album Aldina Duarte, entitled [Contos De Fados] "Tales of Fates."