Portuguese Music For Cello & Orchestra
) | Label: NAXOS Catalog: 8573461 Format: CD BORRALHINHO ORQUESTRA GULBENKIAN NEVES, BRUNO BORRALHINHOThis recording brings together for the first time some of Portugal’s leading composers in a unique programme dedicated to their works for cello and orchestra. The impressionistic and luxuriant harmonies of Luiz Costa’s Poema contrast with Fernando Lopes-Graca’s somber and austere Concerto da Camera, a commission from Mstislav Rostropovich. Luis de Freitas Brando’s Cena Lirica is an early, romantically expressive piece, while the Concerto by his eminent pupil Joly Braga Santos is a hauntingly poetic symphonic masterpiece.  Price: $19.98 |