Óscar da Silva: Piano Music, Volume One
The Portuguese composer and pianist Óscar da Silva (1870–1958) was one of the major figures in Portuguese and Brazilian musical life in the first half of the twentieth century He left an extensive legacy of compositions for his instrument, cast in a soft and sultry Romanticism somewhere between Chopin and Rachmaninov. All four of the collections recorded here concentrate on delicacy of tone-colour, expressing a particularly Portuguese sense of human emotion.
Luís Pipa (piano)
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Images, Op. 6 (publ. 1895)
- I Indécision
- II Naïveté
- III Constance
- IV Découragement
- V Espérance
- VI Passion
- VII Coquetterie
- I Tempo di ‘Berceuse’
- II Tempo di ‘Berceuse’
- I Romance
- II Nocturnal
- III Canção Triste
- I Lento serio
- II Andante malinconico (triste canzone)
- III Andante sostenuto
- IV Andante non molto (con dolore profondo)
- V Allegretto
- VI Quasi adagio
- VII Andante dolento
- VIII Lento funereo
Embalos (‘Lullabies’; publ. 1948)*
Românticas (publ. 1948)*
Dolorosas (Musique Intime), Op. 11 (publ. 1911)
* FIRST RECORDINGS
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