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.
Tracklist
Artist details
Carrapatoso, Eurico
Llaços, contradanças e descantes
1 No. 1. Searas 04:12
2 No. 2. Rabatida 01:04
3 No. 3. Ninho 02:42
4 No. 4. Encomendação 02:20
5 No. 5. Malhadas 03:22
Marques, Telmo
Ilhas Afortunadas
6 I. Mare nostrum 04:00
7 II. Baile da meia volta 02:37
8 III. Conde da Alemanha 01:46
9 IV. Charamba 02:04
Azevedo, Sérgio
Popularuskia I
10 No. 1. Quodlibet: Quase um madrigal (in memory of Joly Braga Santos) 03:02
11 No. 2. Rimanço (in memory of Joly Braga Santos) 02:00
12 No. 3. Não se me dá que vindimem I (in memory of Fernando Lopes-Graça) 02:23
13 No. 4. Não se me dá que vindimem II (in memory of Béla Bartók) 01:33
14 No. 5. Ó ó menino ó (for my dear friend Eurico Carrapatoso) 04:02
Lapa, Fernando C.
Suite Mirandesa (version for string quartet)
15 I. Por beilar el pingacho 02:23
16 II. Mirandum se fui a la guerra 02:30
17 III. Cum ró-ró 04:04
18 IV. Senhor Galandum 02:54
Total Playing Time: 48:58
