Composer: Óscar da Silva
Performer: Luis Pipa
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0576
Release: 2020
Size: 800 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Images, Op. 6
01. I. Indécision
02. II. Naïveté
03. III. Constance
04. IV. Découragement
05. V. Espérance
06. VI. Passion
07. VII. Coquetterie
Embalos
08. I. Tempo di berceuse
09. II. Tempo di berceuse
Românticas
10. I. Romance
11. II. Nocturnal
12. III. Canção triste
Dolorosas, Op. 11 (Musique intime)
13. I. Lento serio
14. II. Andante malinconico
15. III. Andante sostenuto
16. IV. Andante non molto
17. V. Allegretto
18. VI. Quasi adagio
19. VII. Andante dolento
20. VIII. Lento funereo
The Portuguese composer and pianist Óscar da Silva (1870–1958) was one of the major figures in Portuguese and Brazilian musical life in the first half of the twentieth century He left an extensive legacy of compositions for his instrument, cast in a soft and sultry Romanticism somewhere between Chopin and Rachmaninov. All four of the collections recorded here concentrate on delicacy of tone-colour, expressing a particularly Portuguese sense of human emotion.