O quarteto "Cartas Íntimas", de Janáček, é dito "manifesto de amor". Inspirado pela paixão do compositor por uma jovem casada, 38 anos mais jovem do que ele. Amor espiritual, que alimentou uma longa correspondência. Janáček escreveu a ela sobre este quarteto: "Você está por trás de cada nota, você, viva, forte, amorosa. A fragrância do seu corpo, o brilho dos seus beijos - não, realmente dos meus. Essas notas minhas beijam você inteira. Elas a chamam apaixonadamente ... "

String Quartet 101

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - String Quartet No.19 in C major, K.465

Antonio Carlos Gomes - O ciel di Parahyba, from Lo schiavo (1889)
Suzy Amaral - soprano 
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Paraíba river - Ederaldo Paulini

Antonio Carlos Gomes - O ciel di Parahyba, from Lo schiavo - São Paulo - 2022

Richard Wagner - O du, mein holder, from Tannhäuser (1889)
Isaque Oliveira - bariton
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Caspar David Friedrich

Richard Wagner - O du, mein holder, from Tannhäuser-  São Paulo - 2022 -

Jacques Offenbach - Scintille diamant, from Les contes d'Hoffmann (1875/1904)
Isaque Oliveira - bariton
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Vintage cluster of diamonds

Jacques Offenbach - Scintille diamant, from Les contes d'Hoffmann - São Paulo - 2022

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Dove sono, from Le nozze di Figaro (1786)
Higla Noel - Soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Antoine Watteau - Sanguine

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Dove sono, from Le nozze di Figaro - São Paulo - 2025 -

Georges Bizet - Habanera, from Carmen (1875)
Lyrics by Henri Meilhac e Ludovic Halévy
Luciana Simões - Mezzo-soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Eugène Giraud - Spanish woman

Georges Bizet - Habanera, from Carmen - São Paulo - 2025

Manuel Fernández Caballero - Balada y Alborada, from El Senor Joaquin (1898)
Lyrics by Julián Romea Parra
Luciana Simões - Mezzo-soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Eduardo Rosales Gallinas - Spanish landscape

Manuel Fernández Caballero - Balada y Alborada, from El Senor Joaquin -São Paulo - 2025

Giacomo Puccini - Quando m'en vo, from La Bohème - 1896
Lyrics by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Elisa Furtado - soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Fashion Plate Of A Lady In Evening Dress, Advertisement From Modes De Paris,1825

Giacomo Puccini - Quando m'en vo, from La Bohème - São Paulo - 2025

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Solitudini amiche, from Idomeneo - 1781
Lyrics by Giambattista Varesco
Elisa Furtado - soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Hubert Robert

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Solitudini amiche, from Idomeneo - São Paulo - 2025 -

Stanisław Moniuszko - Szumia jodly, from Halka - 1854
Lyrics by Włodzimierz Wolski
Vitorio Scarpi - tenor
Daniel Gonçalves - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Dan McGregor - Summer sketchbook: view from our balcony, Zakopane, Poland.

Stanisław Moniuszko - Szumia jodly, from Halka - São Paulo - 2025 -

Debussy, Fauré & Ravel: String Quartets

String Quartet, M. 35: II. Assez vif - Très rythmé

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 - Moderato e semplice

Leoš Janáček - String Quartet No. 2 - "Intimate Letters" (1928)
Andante - Con moto - Allegro
Adagio - Vivace
Moderato - Andante - Adagio
Allegro - Andante - Adagio
Pražák Quartet
Václav Remeš, violin
Vlastimil Holek, violin
Josef Klusoň, viola
Michal Kaňka, cello
Live Recording - Espaço Cultural BankBoston, São Paulo, Brazil - June 8, 2004
Illustration - Johannes Vermeer

Leoš Janáček - String Quartet No. 2 - "Intimate Letters" -  Live - Pražák Quartet - São Paulo - 2004

Recital recording at Imagineering Studios, Inc. in Arlington Heights, IL. Contact at 847-640-6411

String Quartet No. 64, Op. 76 No. 5 in D major, Hob. III:79, II. Largo cantabile e mesto, Joseph Haydn

Antonio Carlos Gomes - Fosca - 1873/75
Live recording - Theatro Municipal de São Paulo - April 28 1996
Fosca - Gail Gilmore
Paolo -  Roumen Doykov
Delia - Krassimira Stoyanova
Cambro - Niko Issakov
Gajolo - Svetovar Ranguelov
Doge - Soil Georguiev
Michele - Peter Bakardzhiev
Sophia National Opera Orchestra
Conductor - Luiz Fernando Malheiro
Sophia National Opera Choir - Choirmaster Violeta Tontcheva
Illustration - Gustave Moreau

Leoš Janáček - String Quartet No. 2 - "Intimate Letters" - Live - Pražák Quartet - São Paulo - 2004

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