Name: Shapes (excerpt) by goncalogato
Duration: 33 s
Description: An excerpt of the piece 'Shapes' (2011) played by the Ligeti Quartet live at The Forge, Camden, London, on the 20th November.

Acoustic guitar track composed for the second episode of Blues in Boxes, a series of short theatre plays by Dutch writer Anna van der Kruis.

Taken | Blues in Boxes II soundtrack

The Deeper Breath To Follow

De Angelis (R.Smith Brindle - arrangement by F.Guiomar)

"I could not think of thee as piecèd rot"
for soprano and orchestra

conductor - Magnus Lindberg
soprano - Inês Simões
Gulbenkian Orchestra

composer - Nuno da Rocha
words by - James Joyce & Fernando Pessoa

Sleep now, O sleep now, 
   O you unquiet heart! 
A voice crying 'Sleep now' 
   Is heard in my heart. 

The voice of the winter 
   Is heard at the door. 
O sleep, for the winter 
   Is crying 'Sleep no more.' 

My kiss will give peace now 
   And quiet to your heart - 
Sleep on in peace now, 
   O you unquiet heart! 
(James Joyce)

I could not think of thee as piecèd rot,
Yet such thou wert, for thou hadst been long dead;
Yet thou liv'dst entire in my seeing thought
And what thou wert in me had never fled.
Nay, I had fixed the moments of thy beauty -
Thy ebbing smile, thy kiss's readiness,
And memory had taught my heart the duty
To know thee ever at that deathlessness.
But when I came where thou wert laid, and saw
The natural flowers ignoring thee sans blame,
And the encroaching grass, with casual flaw,
Framing the stone to age where was thy name,
    I knew not how to feel, nor what to be
    Towards thy fate's material secrecy.
(Fernando Pessoa)

premiere at ENOA's Concert - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 12th September 2014.

recorded by Antena 2.
(photo by Márcia Lessa)

I could not think of thee as piecèd rot - for soprano and orchestra

Poesia de Herberto Helder lida por Vasco Gato, acompanhada de improvisação musical de Gonçalo Gato (guitarra) e Rui Gato (theremin e monotron).

Poetry from Herberto Helder read by Vasco Gato with live improvisation by Gonçalo Gato (guitar) and Rui Gato (theremin and monotron).

Performance na Pecha Kucha Night #20

An excerpt of the piece 'Shapes' (2011) played by the Ligeti Quartet live at The Forge, Camden, London, on the 20th November.

Shapes (excerpt)

A dark ballad of an unknown soul. Featuring vocals, guitar, violins, electric piano, bass and drums.

Ballad Of An Unknown

Maio maduro maio - emmy Curl Cover

Gonçalo Gato is one of the Panufnik Composers associated with the London Symphony Orchestra, working towards a new orchestral piece. Under the supervision of Julian Anderson and Paul Newland, he completed doctoral studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Recent works include 'Vacuum Instability', an octet premiered by BBC Symphony Orchestra musicians, conducted by Richard Baker at Maida Vale Studios, 'A Walk in the Countryside', for flute, premiered by Ensemble Recherche's Martin Fahlenbock, 'Canti Firmi', premiered by Guildhall New Music Ensemble conducted by James Weeks and 'Comendador u m'eu quitei', premiered by Ensemble MPMP, conducted by Jan Wierzba,
His music has been played in United Kingdom, Germany, France, Portugal and Brazil.

Shapes (excerpt)

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