It’s not over until the soprano dies

NUNO CÔRTE-REAL / ORQUESTRA METROPOLITANA DE LISBOA JANUARY 12  2024 Teatro São Luís, Lisboa (Portugal) more info JANUARY 13  2024 Teatro São Luís, Lisboa (Portugal) more info JANUARY 14  2024 Teatro São Luís, Lisboa (Portugal) more info

Côrte-Real:   Songs of Love and Nature  op. 42 C

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Côrte-Real:  Folias  op.71

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VISUAL MUSIC

For me, music has always been a handful of colored strokes on an imaginary canvas, evoking shapes, timbres and poetry, in a kind of magical arena where color and sound merge into poetic feelings. As a boy, I remember painting lying on the bedroom floor, to the sound of Beethoven’s symphonies, and then composing songs […]

BUILDING BRIDGES

Building bridges is probably what I would choose as the most emblematic feature of Nuno Côrte-Real’s music.  Bridges, first of all, between the contemporary composer and his audience, in the very opposite of Milton Babbitt’s infamous remark “who cares if they listen?”. Côrte-Real does care — and intensely so — if he is heard, and […]