Augusto Machado and his time

[Maria Clara Assunção]

Este blogue em português

Is running since January 22 until February 19 in the Foyer of the Open Foyer of Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, a cycle of concerts for voice and piano, entitled "Augusto Machado and his time" organized by Maestro João Paulo Santos. This cycle, which runs on Thursdays, provides a comprehensive overview of the work of Portuguese composer Augusto Machado (1845-1924) and other contemporary composers, portuguese - including Alfredo Keil (1850-1907), Óscar da Silva (1870 -- 1958), António Fragoso (1897-1918), Viana da Mota (1868-1948), Luís de Freitas Branco (1890-1955), João Guilherme Daddi (1814-1887) and Joaquim Casimiro (1808-1862) - and foreign -- including Hervé (pseudonym of Florimond Rong, 1825-1892), Jacques Offenbach (pseudonym of Jacob Eberst, 1819-1880) and Angelo Frondoni (1812-1891). With a varied and appealing program, this cycle allows a contact with Portuguese composers whose names may even be more or less known to a wide audience but whose music is little or not at all performed, not only for lack of interest from musicians but also because it is not published yet. The documentary collection of Augusto Machado is now complete at the National Library of Portugal, through the documentation generously donated by his great-granddaughter, Maria Constança (in the program below is a link to the sources available at the National Library). It also noted that the composer was a member of the Cenacle, literary tertulia in wich take part Jaime Batalha Reis, Eça de Queiroz, Solomon Saragga, Lobo de Moura, Manuel de Arriaga, Antero de Quental, Guerra Junqueiro and Jose Fontana. This tertulia originated the famous Democartic Conferences of the Casino, in 1871, which marked the formation of which would be known as "generation of 70". Machado inspired Eça in the creation of Cruges, the composer of "The Maias", described as "a devil balmy, conductor, pianist, with a tip of genius». «- Nobody does a thing, said Carlos lounge. You, for example, what are you doing?
Cruges, after a silence, shrinking the shoulders growl:
- If I make a good opera, who would perform it?
- And if Ega make a beautiful book, who would read it?
The teacher ended by saying:
- This is an impossible country... I think I'll have a coffee.» (QUEIRÓS, Eça de - Os Maias)

22 de Janeiro: CANTO E PIANO

AUGUSTO MACHADO
* Voli un giorno
* Sempre più t'amo 1873
* Soneto (Luís de Camões) 1880
* Bonjour Suzon (Alfred de Musset) 1884

ALFREDO KEIL
* Angoisse apaisée (Antoine Cros)

ÓSCAR DA SILVA
* Le chant du cygne (Luís de Camões)

ANTÓNIO FRAGOSO
* Sérénade (Paul Verlaine) 1917

VIANNA DA MOTTA
* Canção Perdida (Guerra Junqueiro) 1895

LUÍS DE FREITAS BRANCO
* Aquela moça (Augusto de Lima) 1904

AUGUSTO MACHADO
* Margarida (Eça Leal) 1908
* Era uma vez (Virgínia Victorino) 1915
* Amor! Amor! (Augusto Gil) 1919
* Pro Pace 1918
* Baccio sprezzato (Camaiti) 1918
* Primo baccio (Corradeti) 1917
* Nocturne de la douxième heure (Henri d'Erville) 1910
* La lettre (Edmond Rostand) 1912
* La Querelle (Comtesse de Noailles)
* Valse-Impromptu (Alfred de Musset)

Soprano Lara Martins
Barítono Luís Rodrigues

29 de Janeiro: ÓPERA

AUGUSTO MACHADO

LAURIANE (Magne e Guiou)1883
* M'y voilà donc!...D'une âpre ambition (D'Alvimar)
* Comme l'aube diaphane (Jovelin)
* Fuyez ce D'Alvimar (Lauriane, Jovelin)

I DORIA (A. Ghislanzoni) 1887
* Fidati a me!...Al deseto natio (Moro)
* Ho ben compreso?...Egli è là (Leonora, Fieschi)

MARIO WETTER (R. Leoncavallo) 1898
* Cena (Lydia, De Sora)

LA BORGHESINA (Golisciani) 1909
* Un'aura balsamica (Amanda)
* Trasse al bosco nel verno (Lisa, De Sterny)
* Viva l'amor (Flaminia)
* Da St. Germain tornando (Prospero, De Sterny)

ROSAS DE TODO O ANO (Júlio Dantas) 1920
* Cena (Inês)

Soprano Ana Ester Neves
Tenor João Cipriano Martins
Barítono João Merino

5 de Fevereiro: MÚSICA DE CÂMARA

AUGUSTO MACHADO
* Vieilleries: Menuet, Gavotte, Gigue Portugaise

JOÃO GUILHERME DADDI
* Larghetto ( 2º Andamento de Morceau de Salon)

ALFREDO KEIL
* Juin langoureux

AUGUSTO MACHADO
* Bolero et Andante 1870
* Berceuse
* Maria Constança - Valsa (dedicada à neta) 1914
* Prelúdio e Fuga 1917
* Miniaturas
* Petits jeux
* Cache cache
* Colin maillard

VIANNA DA MOTTA
* Cena nas Montanhas e Presto (2º e 3º Andamentos de Quarteto em sol maior) 1895

Quarteto Vianna da Motta:
Violino I António Figueiredo
Violino II Witold Dziuba
Viola Hugo Diogo
Violoncelo Irene Lima

19 de Fevereiro: OPERETA

HERVÉ

LE PETIT FAUST (Jaime e Crémieux) 1869
* Complainte du roi de Thulé

JACQUES OFFENBACH

ORPHEE AUX ENFERS (Crémieux e Halévy) 1874
* Couplets des baisers

LA GRAND-DUCHESSE DE GEROLSTEIN (Meilhac e Halévy) 1867
* Air de la lettre

ANGELO FRONDONI

O BEIJO (Silva Leal) 1844
* Tal não sou, bela Joaninha (Joaninha, Filipe)

JOAQUIM CASIMIRO

NEM TURCO NEM RUSSO (Costa Cascais)1844
* Couplets turcos

A MULHER DE TRÊS MARIDOS
* Couplets

AUGUSTO MACHADO

A CRUZ DE OURO (Athaíde e R. Lima) 1873
* Romanza d'Austerlitz

A GUITARRA (Eça Leal) 1902
* Quarteto (Eufémia, Alexandrina, Joaquim, Mimoso)

PICCOLINO (V, Sardou/E. Garrido) 1889
* Couplets de Frederico

A LEITORA DA INFANTA (tradução de Eça Leal) 1893
* Trio e Couplets (Mercedes, Rafael, Doutor)
* Serenata (Rafael)

OS FILHOS DO CAPITÃO-MÓR (E. Schwalbach) 1896
* Quarteto dos Ecos (Maria, Cogominho, Gonçalo, Romão)

TIÇÃO NEGRO (H. Lopes de Mendonça) 1902
* Duetino (Cecília, Apariço)

VÉNUS (A. Antunes) 1905
* Romanza
* Valsa do fogo
* Canção báquica

O ESPADACHIM DO OUTEIRO (H. Lopes de Mendonça) 1910
* Dueto (Frangalho, Violante)
* Aria (Ines)
* Dueto (Violante, Inês)

O RAPTO DE HELENA (A. Antunes) 1902
* Couplets (Giraffier)
* Brinde-Valsa

Soprano Dora Rodrigues
Soprano Sandra Medeiros
Tenor Mário Alves
Barítono Mário Redondo