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”.
In Minas Gerais, a region which still enjoyed great opulence in the late eighteenth century thanks to the discovery of gold there, Antonio dos Santos Cunha practised a vivid style of composition, with all the hallmarks of Baroque rhetoric combined with musical resources deriving from Italian opera, and spiced with a tropical ‘Sturm und Drang’, thus adding his own dramatic and intense setting to the canon of Passion music.
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”.
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”.
One of this year's most exciting salsa releases came out of the Bay Area. A mostly young group plays the kind of expanded Latin-jazz that too often goes unnoticed amid a host of tipico recordings. Roots it has, in Afro-Cuban religion and in the music of groups from Machito to Irakere. A sleeper, it also has imagination, verve and skill.
This selection of chamber music by leading Portuguese composer Pedro Faria Gomes was written between 2007 and 2018. The works encompass themes of memory, change and waiting, with the concept of time being a central preoccupation. Though he has drawn on music from his country’s folk traditions – in Memória and in the Sonata – it is always with new harmonic insights and subtlety, creating undeniably invigorating additions to contemporary chamber music repertoire.
Une approche totalement nouvelle de l'Holocauste où J.R. dos Santos donne la parole à ceux qui l'ont perdue.
Le grand magicien Herbert Levin, sa femme et son fils ont été déportés à Auschwitz où ils tentent de survivre. Le soldat Francisco Latino a réussi à se faire engager dans l'armée SS pour tenter de retrouver sa fiancée russe enfermée, elle aussi, dans les camps de la mort. …
"J'ai lu des centaines de livres sur ce sujet, mais celui-ci est dfifférent.
J.R. dos Santos apporte des éléments nouveaux et encore inconnus sur la vie dans les camps d'extermination." - Márcio Pitliuk, directeur de l'association pour Yad Vashem au Brésil