Quarteto de Matosinhos - Raízes: Portuguese Chamber Music (2023)

Tracklist

01. Llaços, contradanças e descantes: No. 1, Searas
02. Llaços, contradanças e descantes: No. 2, Rabatida
03. Llaços, contradanças e descantes: No. 3, Ninho
04. Llaços, contradanças e descantes: No. 4, Encomendação
05. Llaços, contradanças e descantes: No. 5, Malhadas
06. Ilhas Afortunadas: I. Mare nostrum
07. Ilhas Afortunadas: II. Baile da meia volta
08. Ilhas Afortunadas: III. Conde da Alemanha
09. Ilhas Afortunadas: IV. Charamba
10. Popularuskia I: No. 1, Quodlibet. Quase um madrigal (In Memory of Joly Braga Santos)
11. Popularuskia I: No. 2, Rimanço (In Memory of Joly Braga Santos)
12. Popularuskia I: No. 3, Não se me dá que vindimem I (In Memory of Fernando Lopes-Graça)
13. Popularuskia I: No. 4, Não se me dá que vindimem II (In Memory of Béla Bartók)
14. Popularuskia I: No. 5, Ó ó menino ó (for my dear friend Eurico Carrapatoso)
15. Suite Mirandesa (Version for String Quartet): I. Por beilar el pingacho
16. Suite Mirandesa (Version for String Quartet): II. Mirandum se fui a la guerra
17. Suite Mirandesa (Version for String Quartet): III. Cum ró-ró
18. Suite Mirandesa (Version for String Quartet): IV. Senhor Galandum

Raízes (Portuguese for ‘roots’) features new works commissioned by the Matosinhos String Quartet, in which composers were invited to write works inspired by melodies, dances and stories from Portuguese traditional folklore. Returning to their heritage in North Portugal, Eurico Carrapatoso and Fernando C. Lapa both draw inspiration from Mirandese landscapes, dances and melodies. Telmo Marques’s Ilhas Afortunadas alludes to the mythologies surrounding the islands of the Azores and Madeira, and Sérgio Azevedo pays homage to Fernando Lopes-Graça and Béla Bartók’s pioneering work recording folk music in the field with his Popularuskia I

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