Day & Night
Piano and Voice
"What a slow awakening
What a sad dawn
The light is slow to come
To fortune foretold."
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Paulo César Gonçalves
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In a perfect symbiosis between words and sound, Day & Night is human experience in all its fullness.
Together with mezzo-soprano Helena Ressurreição, the musicians reflect - in a concert for voice and piano - the depth of the human being through his drama, his joy and his fado.
Pedro Emanuel Pereira wrote his first songs when he was just eight years old. Five years later, he premiered his work " Four Songs for Piano" at the D. Maria II Theatre in Lisbon, in a live concert for Antena 2 radio.
More recently, in 2019, the artist returned to this musical genre, having written a total of 11 songs. With texts by Lusophone poets, the composer was inspired by the Portuguese language to reflect the innermost spirit of his art through the human voice.
PROGRAMME
Pedro Emanuel Pereira
Two songs for voice and piano with text by Fernando Pessoa, op. 4;
Four songs for voice and piano with text by Paulo César Gonçalves, op. 6;
"Saudade is a bit like hunger", with text by Clarice Linspector, op. 8;
Three songs for voice and piano with texts by Lusophone poets (L. V. Camões, M. Torga, S. M. Breyner), op. 9;
To the memory of an angel, with text by Pedro Emanuel Pereira, op.16.