Composer: Sérgio Azevedo, Eurico Carrapatoso, Fernando Lapa, Telmo Marques
Performer: Matosinhos String Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8579114
Release: 2023
Size: 212 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Carrapatoso: Llaços, contradanças e descantes
01. No. 1, Searas
02. No. 2, Rabatida
03. No. 3, Ninho
04. No. 4, Encomendação
05. No. 5, Malhadas
Marques: Ilhas Afortunadas
06. I. Mare nostrum
07. II. Baile da meia volta
08. III. Conde da Alemanha
09. IV. Charamba
Azevedo: Popularuskia I
10. No. 1, Quodlibet. Quase um madrigal (In Memory of Joly Braga Santos)
11. No. 2, Rimanço (In Memory of Joly Braga Santos)
12. No. 3, Não se me dá que vindimem I (In Memory of Fernando Lopes-Graça)
13. No. 4, Não se me dá que vindimem II (In Memory of Béla Bartók)
14. No. 5, Ó ó menino ó (for my dear friend Eurico Carrapatoso)
Lapa: Suite Mirandesa (Version for String Quartet)
15. I. Por beilar el pingacho
16. II. Mirandum se fui a la guerra
17. III. Cum ró-ró
18. 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.