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Lopes-Graça: Complete Music for String Quartet & Piano, Vol. 2

9/4/2015, 21 Tracks, 51:18

Featuring

  • Olga Prats
  • Luís Pacheco Cunha
  • Anne Victorino de Almeida
  • Isabel Pimentel
  • Catherine Strynckx
  • Quarteto Lopes-Graça
  • Fernando Lopes-Graça

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Composer Biography

Fernando Lopes-Graça, a Portuguese composer, was twice arrested for being an open dissident during the dictatorship of Salazar's Estado Novo.

Source: Booklet

Cultural Impact

Lopes-Graça collaborated with Corsican ethnologist Michel Giacometti to compile and publish the Antologia da Música Regional Portuguesa and the Cancioneiro Popular Português, which documented Portugal's oral music traditions.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

After World War II, much of Lopes-Graça's life was shaped by his militant membership in the Movement of Democratic Unity and the Portuguese Communist Party.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Lopes-Graça's artistic vision involved forging a compositional practice that drew heavily from local Portuguese traditions and forms of music-making, rather than solely embracing the European modernist mainstream.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Olga Prats, the pianist on this recording, is considered a foremost interpreter of Portuguese piano music, particularly that of Fernando Lopes-Graça.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in the Museu da Música Portuguesa, Monte Estoril, using Fernando Lopes-Graça's own Bechstein piano.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Quarteto Lopes-Graça is named after the composer and was formed by four teachers from the National Conservatoire School of Music in Lisbon.

Source: Booklet

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