Nuno Côrte-Real, Ensemble Darcos & Coro Ricercare
Release Date: 10 January 2020
Label: Odradek Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0859024006075
Genres: World Music European
Description
Ensemble Darcos and Nuno Côrte-Real return to Odradek with 'CANTE', which continues their exploration of Portuguese music and culture, in this case in pieces lovingly sourced and transcribed by Maria Rita Ortigao Pinto Cortez, whose essential work in Portuguese ethnomusicology has brought together a rich collection of music from the city of Serpa. Her findings represent an eclectic range of traditional folk songs and poetry that could be heard in that region up until the middle of the 1980s, in a form known today as Cante. Nuno Côrte-Real has made faithful arrangements of these works for this album, for which Ensemble Darcos is joined by the exceptional Portuguese choir, Coro Ricercare.
For Côrte-Real: "The traditional music of Portugal is amongst the most beautiful and varied of any in the world… This diversity and musical richness had a marked influence on my development as a composer, going back to 1996 when I began to work regularly on collections of arrangements that I called 'Novíssimo Cancioneiro', the first two books of which are presented here on this album."
Ensemble Darcos is one of the most prestigious Portuguese chamber groups working today. It was created in 2002 by composer and conductor Nuno Côrte-Real for the interpretation of great European composers of chamber music, as well as the music of Côrte-Real himself.
Nuno Côrte-Real has established himself as one of the most important Portuguese composers and conductors of today. He has won both 2018 and 2019 prizes for Best Classical Music Work of the Portuguese Society of Authors, with the song cycle 'Agora Muda Tudo' and the opera 'Canção do Bandido' respectively.
Coro Ricercare stands out as a benchmark choir in Portugal. Since its inception, Coro Ricercare has devoted a large part of its activity to the interpretation of new Portuguese music, and has premiered more than 60 works by young Portuguese composers.
Tracklisting
Nuno Côrte-Real, Ensemble Darcos & Coro Ricercare
Artur Pizarro, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Julia Jones
Ingibjorg Azima
Jenaer Philharmonie, Simon Gaudenz
Carion Wind Quintet
Johannes Fleischmann
Tony Addison Sextet
Vasco Pimentel Trio
ZRI
Peppe Frana, Masih Karimi & Ciro Montanari
Clara Graziano
Camilla Barbarito
Katerina Papadopoulou & Aegean Arc
Springsteen, Bruce
El Bes Galili
Don Kipper
