"Há algum tempo eu pensava em como expressar na música as impressões que Nova York me fez. Meu sentimento geral era que ali havia uma cidade que se orgulhava de ser moderna e progressiva, mas que, no entanto, mantinha uma qualidade antiquada deliciosa. O conjunto destina-se a refletir essas impressões." Jim Parker

British Composers

LeRoy Anderson - Sleigh Ride (1948)
Arrangement by Andrew Gentile
Fabio Luz - Piano
Live recording - Auditorium of the Art Institute - Unicamp - April 28 2022
Illustration - Peder Mørk Mønsted —  A Sleigh Ride Through a Winter Landscape

LeRoy Anderson - Sleigh Ride - Luz - Campinas - 2022

Heitor Villa-Lobos - A manhã da Pierrete, from O carnaval das crianças -   Pierrette’s Morning, from The Children’s Carnival – - 1920
Fabio Luz - Piano
Live recording - Auditorium of the Art Institute - Unicamp - April 28 2022
Illustration - Pierrette - Royal Doulton Figurine

Heitor Villa- Lobos - O carnaval das crianças - A manhã da Pierrete - Luz - Campinas - 2022

Gian Carlo Menotti - The Consul, opera in three acts - 1950
Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
JOHN SOREL
Leonardo Neiva
MAGDA SOREL
Carla Filipcic Holm
Secretary of the consulate
Adriana Mastrángelo
Mother, mother to John Sorel
Virginia Correa Dupuy
Secret Police Agent
Héctor Guedes
NIKA MAGADOFF
Pablo Urban
MR. KOFNER
Alejandro Spies
Foreign Woman
Marisú Pavón
ANNA GOMEZ
Marina Silva
VERA BORONEL
Rocío Arbizu
ASSAN
Sebastián Sorarrain
Live recording - Teatro Colón - Buenos Aires - Argentina -  May 8th 2022
Illustration - Government Bureau (1956) by George Tooker

Gian Carlo Menotti - The Consul - Buenos Aires - 2022

Cécile Chaminade – Arabesque nº 1, op. 61, in G Major - 1892
Piano - Diego Caetano
Live recording - Auditorium of the Art Institute - Unicamp - Mai 18 2022
Illustration - Pierrette - Michael Parkes

Cécile Chaminade – Arabesque nº 1, op. 61 - Caetano - Campinas - 2022

Cécile Chaminade – Sonate in C minor op. 21 - 1895
I. Allegro appassionato
 II. Andante (lá bemol maior)
III. Allegro (dó menor
Piano - Diego Caetano
Live recording - Auditorium of the Art Institute - Unicamp - Mai 18 2022
Illustration - Henri Fantin-Fantin Latour

Cécile Chaminade - Sonate in C minor op. 21 - Caetano - Campinas - 2022

Francis Poulenc – Intermezzo nº 3, in A flat minor- 1943
Piano - Diego Caetano
Live recording - Auditorium of the Art Institute - Unicamp - Mai 18 2022
Illustration - Pierre Bonnard

Francis Poulenc – Intermezzo nº 3  - Caetano - Campinas - 2022

Francis Poulenc – Soirées de Nazelles - Nazelles Evenings - 1936
Préambule
Prélude — Prelude
Variations
Variation 1 : Le comble de la discrétion — The Height of Discretion
Variation 2 : Le cœur sur la main — Heart on One’s Sleeve
Variation 3 : La désinvolture et la grâce — Casualness and Grace
Variation 4 : Le contentement de soi — Self-Satisfaction
Variation 5 : Le goût du malheur — A Taste for Misfortune
Variation 6 : L’invitation au voyage — Invitation to the Voyage
Variation 7 : Le goût du malheur (reprise) — Taste for Misfortune (reprise)
Variation 8 : Le contentement de soi (reprise) — Self-Satisfaction (reprise)
Cadences & Final
Cadence — Cadence
Final — Finale
Piano - Diego Caetano
Live recording - Auditorium of the Art Institute - Unicamp - Mai 18 2022
Illustration - Édouard Vuillard

Francis Poulenc – Soirées de Nazelles - Caetano - Campinas - 2022

Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in D-flat major, Op. 27, No. 2 - 1836
Piano - Diego Caetano
Live recording - Auditorium of the Art Institute - Unicamp - Mai 18 2022
Illustration - Odilon Redon

Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in D-flat major, Op. 27, No. 2 - Caetano - Campinas - 2022

Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes  - Opera in three acts - (1945)
Libretto by Montagu Slater
Peter Grimes, a fisherman	tenor	Fernando Portari
Ellen Orford, a widow, Borough schoolmistress	soprano	Daniela Carvalho
Auntie, landlady of The Boar	contralto	Thalita Azevedo
Niece 1	soprano	Maria Sole Gallevi
Niece 2	soprano	Dhijana Nobre
Balstrode, retired merchant skipper	baritone	Homero Velho
Mrs Sedley, a rentier widow	mezzo-soprano	Carla Rizzi
Swallow, a lawyer	bass	Anderson Barbosa
Ned Keene, apothecary and quack	baritone	Vinicius Atique
Bob Boles, fisherman and Methodist	tenor	Daniel Umbelino
The Rev Horace Adams, rector	tenor	Wilken Silveira
Hobson, carrier	bass	Emanuel Conde
Coral do Amazonas
Amazonas Filarmônica
Conductor - Luiz Fernando Malheiro
Live recording - Teatro Amazonas - Manaus - AM - May 20, 2022
Illustration - J. M. W. Turner: Fishermen at Sea

Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes - Portari - Carvalho - Manaus - 2022 05 20

Giuseppe Verdi - Ah si, ben mio and Di quella pira, from Il Trovatore (first piano rehersal) - 1853
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano 
Tenor - Enrique Bravo
Piano - Marcelo de Jesus
Live recording - Palácio Rio Negro - Manaus AM - Brazil - May 21 2022
Illustration - Luigi Morgeri

Giuseppe Verdi - Ah si, ben mio and Di quella pira, from Il Trovatore (first piano rehersal) - Enrique Bravo - Manaus - 2022

Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 65 (1919)
Cello - Antonio Menezes
Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
Conductor - Roberto Minczuk
Live recording - Theatro São Pedro - 1998 May 28
Illustration -Sir John Lavery

Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor - Live - Antonio Meneses - São Paulo - 1998

Michael Head - The Singer (1939)
Lyrics by Bronnie Taylor
Solo - Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Live recording - Walter Reade Theater - Lincoln Center - New York - USA - January 25, 1999
Illustration - Phil Rogers

Michael Head - The Singer - Evans - Live - New York - 1999

Donald Swann - A Word on My Ear
Lyrics by  Michael Flanders
Solo - Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Piano - Craig Rutemberg
Live recording - Walter Reade Theater - Lincoln Center - New York - USA - January 25, 1999
Lyrics:
(Intro)
A prisoner to rapture by arduous duty pressed
A slave to the longing which lingers in my breast
Farewell, my friends, adieu
I cannot stay with you
Farewell, farewell, farewell

(Verse 1)
Before I deliver my seventh encore
There's something I'd like to make clear
They say I've brought pleasure to millions or more
They say that my singing half won the last war
When I sang to the troops in the rear
I'm a dame with a name
At the peak of my fame
I'm known as the Empress of Song
The critics bravo
And the critics should know
But I cannot help feeling they're wrong
I'm lauded, applauded, recorded, but list!
I've a musical flaw that they seem to have missed
That they seem to have missed
That they seem to have missed

(Chorus 1)
I'm tone deaf
Music means nothing to me
It's only the way
My accompanists play
That makes it appear I'm in key
Stone tone deaf
Can't tell a key from a clef
I stand by the pianist watching his face
For he's told me to start when he comes to the place
Where he'll give me a whacking great (*discordant crash in the piano*) in the bass
Because I'm tone deaf

(Chorus 2)
I'm tone deaf
Never could understand pitch
Some people I know
Will sing sol-fa-ti-do
And claim they can tell which is which
Stone tone deaf
Can't tell a B from an F
Colin Davis once said, "Now I don't want to carp
But if that's a B natural played on the harp
Then you're either B-flat, dear, or bloody B-sharp!"
But then I'm tone deaf

(Verse 2)
My technique is perfect (aah!) and likewise my larynx
Paolozzi once sculpted a bust of my pharynx
While lovers of music all praise with conviction
My phrasing, my timbre, my perfection of diction
Made trilling made Klemperer swoon (aah!)
But I just can't remember the tune

(Chorus 3)
I'm tone deaf
But in most modern works for the voice
The note that I hit
Doesn't matter a bit
So it's purely a personal choice
Stone tone deaf
Musically D-E-A-F
Perhaps Covent Garden can do without me
But while I live on an Equity fee
I'll always get work from the dear BBC
Because I'm tone deaf
Yes I'm tone deaf

Flanders And Swann - A Word On My Ear - Live - Evans - New York - 1999

Dilys Elwyn-Edwards - Caneuon Natur (Nature Songs) - (1977)
Y Mynydd (The Mountain)
Deilen (Leaves)
Noson o Haf (Night of Summer)
Solo - Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Piano - Craig Rutemberg
Live recording - Walter Reade Theater - Lincoln Center - New York - USA - January 25, 1999
Illustration - Kyffin Williams

Dilys Elwyn-Edwards - Caneuon Natur (Nature Songs) - Evans - New York - 1999

Henry Purcell -  "Sweater Than Roses" from incidental music to Richard Norton's play Pausanias, the Betrayer of His Country (1695)(Tippett/Bergmann edition)
Solo - Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Piano - Craig Rutemberg
Live recording - Walter Reade Theater - Lincoln Center - New York - USA - January 25, 1999
Illustration - Peter Lely
Lyrics
ACT III.
SCENE I. Pandora in her Apartment.
SONGS. After which Argilius enters.
SWeeter than Roses, or cool Evening's breeze,
On a warm Flowery Shore,
Was the dear Kiss, first trembling made me freeze,
Then shot like Fire all o're;
What Magick has Victorious love!
For all I touch, or see,
Since that dear kiss, I hourly prove,
All, all is Love to me.

Henry Purcell -  Sweater Than Roses -  Evans - New York - 1999

Jim Parker - Three movements fromA Londoner in New York - Just Brass nº 58 (1983) -
1. Echoes of Harlem
As the title implies, this is a piece about Harlem as it was in the heyday of Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and other jazzmen. The style of playing should be relaxed but rhythmic.

2. The Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is one of the world's most elegant skyscrapers and until the completion of the Empire State Building it was the tallest in the world. The playing of the piece should be symphonic in style and should reflect the grandeur and decorative brilliance of this superb monument to Art Deco Architecture.

3. Grand Central
Although this movement is named after the station which features in many black and white films, the music is that of a steam locomotive. Once the piece is under way it should have a momentum which keeps its impetus regardless of dynamics, and it should at all times be as rhythmic as possible. (Comments by the author).
Conductor - Wagner Polistchuk
Orquestra Sinfônica de Campinas
Live recording - Centro de Convivência - Campinas - SP - Brazil - April 29 2005
Illustration - Red Grooms

Jim Parker - 3 movements from A Londoner In New York - Polistchuk - Campinas - 2005

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