18th Century Portuguese Love Songs

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18th Century Portuguese Love Songs
L'Avventura London, Zak Ozmo

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 20 December 2012

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"L'Avventura's performances tend towards the genteel, suggesting decorous courtly soirees rather than raunchy street theatre...These are, in short, charming accounts" (BBC Music)

"Stylistically, the songs are a curious fusion of polite salon music of a somewhat saccharine sentimentality - epitome of the fashionable and graceful Galant style - and the sensual melodies and vigorous dance rhythms of Latino folk, imported from Brazil...L'Avventura's performances tend towards the genteel, suggesting decorous courtly soirees rather than raunchy street theatre...These are, in short, charming accounts" (BBC Music)

"[Seara] blends well with Medeiros and you get accustomed to the strong hint of citrus in their voices...The percussion...consists of a shaker in one number and the cellist tapping her instrument like a drum! Yet that's a major part of the appeal of this 'fusion' disc, melding 'classical' and popular idioms in a manner that recalls Chrstina Pluhar's L'Arpeggiata discs." (International Record Review)

Tracks:

anon.:
Ganinha, minha Ganinha
Sandra Medeiros (soprano) & Joana Seara (soprano)

Foi por mim, foi pela sorte
Sandra Medeiros (soprano)

A minha Nerina
Joana Seara (soprano)

É delícia ter amor
Os 'me deixas' que tu dás
Sandra Medeiros (soprano) & Joana Seara (soprano)

Avondano, P A:
Minuet IV
Minuet VI

Leite:
Tempo que breve passaste
Joana Seara (soprano)

Tocata do Sr Francisco Gerardo
Taro Takeuchi (guitar) & Zak Ozmo (guitar)

Onde vas linda Negrinha
Sandra Medeiros (soprano) & Joana Seara (soprano)

Minuete
Taro Takeuchi (guitar) & Zak Ozmo (guitar)

Maurício:
Sobre as asas da ternura
Sandra Medeiros (soprano) & Joana Seara (soprano)

Que fiz eu à natureza?
Joana Seara (soprano)

É amor a lei suave
Sandra Medeiros (soprano)

Portugal:
Você trata amor em brinco
Sandra Medeiros (soprano) & Joana Seara (soprano)

Já, já me vai, Marília
Sandra Medeiros (soprano)

Cuidados, tristes cuidados
Sandra Medeiros (soprano) & David Gordon (harpsichord)

Scarlatti, D:
Keyboard Sonata K466 in F minor
David Gordon (harpsichord)

Seixas:
Toccata No. 8
David Gordon (harpsichord) & Zak Ozmo (guitar)