SOND’AR-TE ELECTRIC ENSEMBLE – VOL. IV PORTUGUESE CHAMBER MUSIC OF THE XXI

 1. Asper - Ricardo Ribeiro                                       09:23
2. Instabile Tempus  -  Patrícia Sucena de Almeida              13:46
3. Le Navigateur du Soleil Incandescent - Quatrième Lettre - Isabel Soveral         14:36
4. Purity 1 -  Paulo Ferreira-Lopes      10:44

Total time               48:29

 LIVE-RECORDINGS

1. Pedro Carneiro (conductor), Sílvia Cancela (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Vítor Vieira (violin), Luís André Ferreira (cello), Elsa Silva (piano)

2. Petter Sundkvist (conductor), Sílvia Cancela (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Luís André Ferreira (cello), Elsa Silva (piano), Paula Azguime (electronics), Joana Marta Salgado and Diogo Carvalho (recorded voices)

3. Pedro Neves (conductor), Sílvia Cancela (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Luís André Ferreira (cello), Elsa Silva (piano), Paula Azguime (electronics), Miguel Azguime (recorded voice)

4. Pedro Neves (conductor), Sílvia Cancela (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Luís André Ferreira (cello), Elsa Silva (piano), Paula Azguime (electronics), Nikita Lia Charlotte (recorded voice)

 Program notes about each of the works in this CD are available on-line at www.mic.pt (The Portuguese Music Research and Information Centre)

For more informations about the ensemble visit the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble website: www.sondarte.com

 PORTUGUESE CHAMBER MUSIC OF THE XXI – Vol. IV
This CD is the fourth volume of live recordings with pieces commissioned to Portuguese composers by the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble. 4 composers born between 1961 and 1972, each one with a distinctive voice, and clearly representative of the rich, refined and unique new music currently being composed in Portugal. 4 works composed within the last 10 years, most of them gathering electronic means with the acoustic instruments of the core ensemble: flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano.

DIZ-CONCERTO - TEATRO MUSICAL - SOND'AR-TE ELECTRIC ENSEMBLE

1. Toc, Toc, Toc                                                                        João Madureira / Hélia Correia                                           14:17

2. Ao Desconcerto do Mundo                                           Ângela da Ponte / Luís de Camões                                    10:40

3. Sonho                                                                                      Daniel Martinho / Fernando Pessoa                                08:36

4. Fala do Velho do Restelo ao Astronauta                Sofia Sousa Rocha / José Saramago                                  06:20

5. Quando Eu Nasci                                                               Pedro Rebelo / Isabel Minhós Martins                           10:44 

                                                                                                                                                                                Total time               50:37

LIVE-RECORDINGS

1. Pedro Neves (conductor), Rosinda Costa (reciter), Raquel Lima (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Filipe Quaresma (cello), Elsa Silva (piano)

2. Pedro Neves (conductor), Miguel Azguime (reciter), Sílvia Cancela (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Luís André Ferreira (cello), Elsa Silva (piano), Paula Azguime (electronics)

3. Pedro Neves (conductor), Ágata Mandillo (reciter), Sílvia Cancela (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Luís André Ferreira (cello), Elsa Silva (piano), Paula Azguime (electronics)

4. Pedro Neves (conductor), Miguel Azguime (reciter), Sílvia Cancela (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Luís André Ferreira (cello), Elsa Silva (piano), Paula Azguime (electronics)

5. Ágata Mandillo (reciter), Sílvia Cancela (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Luís André Ferreira (cello), Elsa Silva (piano) - unconnected

thanks to Fundação José Saramago, edições Planeta Tangerina and Isabel Minhós Martins.

Program notes about each of the works in this CD are available on-line at www.mic.pt (The Portuguese Music Research and Information Centre)

For more informations about the ensemble visit the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble website: www.sondarte.com

DIZ-CONCERTO

A live-recording chamber music performance by the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble with works by Portuguese composers together with texts and poems by Portuguese writers, following on the tradition of such works as “Peter and the Wolf” by Prokofiev, or “Carnaval des Animaux”  by Saint-Saëns.

A musical and scenic space that joins a reciter to the instruments of the ensemble aimed at conveying new music to the youngsters.

Among the composers featured in this disc, you’ll find both established names side by side with a new generation of emerging composers. All the works in this disc were commissioned by the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble and are world première recordings.

SOND’AR-TE ELECTRIC ENSEMBLE –VOL. II & III - XXI CENTURY PORTUGUESE CHAMBER MUSIC

world première recordings

CD 1 – duração total: 73:41

Miguel Azguime (1960) "De Part et d’Autre" ** (2011), Laurent Cuniot, CCC-Março 2014, 17:42

flauta - Sílvia Cancela; clarinete - Nuno Pinto; violino – Vítor Vieira; violoncelo – Filipe Quaresma; piano – Elsa Silva; electrónica – Miguel Azguime

Tiago Cutileiro (1967) "um silêncio a somar-se ao silêncio" *** (2010), Laurent Cuniot, CCB-MV 2011, 23:13

flauta - Monika Streitová; clarinete - Nuno Pinto; violino – Suzanna Lidegran; violoncelo – Nelson Ferreira; piano – Joana Gama; electrónica – José Grossinho

António de Sousa Dias (1959) “Variação Sobre Glosa” * (2013), Laurent Cuniot, CCC-Março 2014, 09:50

flauta - Sílvia Cancela; clarinete - Nuno Pinto; violino – Vítor Vieira; violoncelo – Filipe Quaresma; piano – Elsa Silva; electrónica – António de Sousa Dias

Bruno Gabirro (1973) "but I have many friends, and some of them are with me" * (2012), Guillaume Bourgogne, CCC-Junho 2012, 22:56

flauta - Raquel Lima; clarinete - Nuno Pinto; violino – Suzanna Lidegran; violoncelo – Filipe Quaresma; piano – Elsa Silva; electrónica – Bruno Gabirro e Luís Soldado

 

 

CD 2 – duração total 69:24

Cândido Lima (1939) "ETRAS - cantos de sonhi ma" **** (2009), Jean-Sébastien Béreau, CCB-MV 2009, 16:01

flauta - Monika Streitová; clarinete - Nuno Pinto; violino – Suzanna Lidegran; violoncelo – Nuno Abreu; piano – Hisako Hirata; electrónica – Miguel Azguime

Ângela Lopes (1972) “Gárgulas d'Arga” * (2013), Laurent Cuniot, CCC-Março 2014, 11:15

flauta - Sílvia Cancela; clarinete - Nuno Pinto; violino – Vítor Vieira; violoncelo – Filipe Quaresma; piano – Elsa Silva; electrónica – Ângela Lopes

Rui Penha (1981) "Pendulum" ****** (2012), Guillaume Bourgogne, Goethe-MV 2012, 07:47

flauta - Sílvia Cancela; clarinete – Luís Gomes; violino – Suzanna Lidegran; violoncelo – Nelson Ferreira; piano – Joana Gama; electrónica – Rui Penha

Ricardo Ribeiro (1971) "In Limine" ***** (2011), Franck Ollu, CCC-Dez 2011, 10:20

flauta - Sílvia Cancela; clarinete - Nuno Pinto; violino – Suzanna Lidegran; violoncelo – Nelson Ferreira; piano – Elsa Silva; electrónica – Gilberto Bernardes

António Chagas Rosa (1960) "Música de cena para Santo Antão" * (2012), Guillaume Bourgogne, CCC-Junho 2012, 13:16

flauta - Raquel Lima; clarinete - Nuno Pinto; violino – Suzanna Lidegran; violoncelo – Filipe Quaresma; piano – Elsa Silva

Luís Tinoco (1969) "O Silêncio e as Pedras" ******* (2008), Jean-Sébastien Béreau, CCB-MV 2009, 10:45

flauta - Monika Streitová; clarinete - Nuno Pinto; violino – Suzanna Lidegran; violoncelo – Nuno Abreu; piano – Hisako Hirata; electrónica – José Luís Ferreira

 

* - encomenda do Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble

** - encomenda do Ministério da Cultura Francês

*** - encomenda da Câmara Municipal de Lagos e da Miso Music Portugal

**** - encomenda da Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos

***** - encomenda de CIVILCASA e Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble

****** - encomenda do Goethe-Institut Portugal e do Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble

******* - encomenda da Miso Music Portugal

MIGUEL AZGUIME - CHAMBER MUSIC


De Part et d’Autre
  (2011)           17:43
Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
Laurent Cuniot
- conductor; 
Sílvia Cancela
- flute; Nuno Pinto - clarinet; Vítor Vieira - violin; Filipe Quaresma - cello; Elsa Silva - piano; Miguel Azguime - live-electronics; Paula Azguime - sound design 
Commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture.
Recorded live by Miso Studio at Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, March 2014

Conver(say)tions  (2011)           12:57
Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
Suzanna Lidegran - violin; Elsa Silva - piano; João Dias - percussion keyboard controller; Miguel Azguime - live-electronics
Commissioned by The California EAR Unit with a grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Recorded by José Vasco Carvalho at Universidade Católica Portuguesa / CITAR, Porto, December 2012

Águas Marinhas  (2005)           14:11
Camerata Aberta
Guillaume Bourgogne -
conductor; 
Cassia Carrascoza - flute; Alexandre Ficarelli - oboé; Diogo Maia - clarinete; Fábio Cury - bassoon; Nikolay Genov - horn; Adenilson Telles - trumpet; Carlos Freitas - trombone; Charles Augusto - percussion; Lídia Bazarian - piano; Martin Tuksa - violin; Simona Cavuoto - violin; Peter Pas - viola; Johannes Gramsch - cello; Pedro Gadelha - doublebass Commissioned by JSCM (Japanese Society for Contemporary Music)
Recorded by Clement Zular in São Paulo, August 2011

Derrière Son Double  (2001)           20:52
Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
Pedro Amaral
- conductor; 
Monika Streitova - flute; Nuno Pinto - clarinet; Suzanna Lidegran - violin; Jorge Alves - viola; Marco Pereira - cello; Ana Telles - piano; Miguel Azguime - live-electronics
Commissioned by Porto 2001 / Casa da Música.
Recorded by Miso Studio at Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, December 2008