Portuguese Piano Trios, Vol. 2 Trio Pangea

• Luís de Freitas Branco (1890 - 1955): Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano:
• 1 Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano 19:05
• Frederico de Freitas (1902 - 1980): Prelúdio, coral e fuga:
• 2 Prelúdio, coral e fuga: I. Prelúdio 02:26
• 3 Prelúdio, coral e fuga: II. Coral 01:18
• 4 Prelúdio, coral e fuga: III. Fuga 04:13
• Joly Braga Santos (1924 - 1988): Trio, Op. 64:
• 5 Trio, Op. 64: I. Largo 06:01
• 6 Trio, Op. 64: II. Allegro 06:15
• 7 Trio, Op. 64: III. Lento 12:59
• Alexandre Delgado (b. 1965): Trio Camoniano:
• 8 Trio Camoniano: I. Calmo. Com que voz chorarei 02:56
• 9 Trio Camoniano: II. Agitato. Erros meus, má fortuna 02:36
• 10 Trio Camoniano: III. Lento. Memória de meu bem, cortado em flores 03:53
• Total Runtime 01:01:42

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Chamber music played a substantial role in the renewal of Portuguese music that took place during the 20th century. Freitas Branco’s kaleidoscopic Trio has an experimental feel, brimming with his typical rhythmic fluidity and sweeping melodic style, while Frederico de Freitas’s Preludio, coral e fuga is both colorful and technically impressive. Braga Santos’s infectious lyricism is evident in his Trio, and the origins of Delgado’s Trio Camoniano as a sequence of songs connects the worlds of classical music and fado. Volume 1 of Trio Pangea’s ‘superbly played’ (MusicWeb International) Portuguese Piano Trios can be heard on Naxos as well.

Trio Pangea

The Pangea Trio
arose from a shared desire to introduce audiences to 20th- and 21st-century music. The distinctive flavour of its output stems from its members’ choice to express their Spanish, French and Portuguese musical backgrounds through a repertoire that includes many performance premieres of new works, while simultaneously creating original interpretations of Classical and Romantic trio repertoire.

All three musicians have performed in various duos, both with each other and with other musicians, and the trio has performed together in France, Portugal, Spain and Belgium, at the Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) in Lisbon, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal, the Casa da Música in Oporto, the Institut Français, the Auditorium L’Odyssée in Dreux, Mosan Summer Festival and the Fundación Museo Evaristo Valle among others.

They are regularly invited to play in the most prestigious festivals and concert cycles of Portugal and Spain such as Cistermúsica in Alcobaça, the Festival Internacional de Música de Marvão (FIMM), international music festivals in Leiria and Alcobaça as well as Música em São Roque in Lisboa, Cine-Teatro Avenida in Castelo Branco, Serões Musicais no Palácio da Pena in Sintra and Clásicos en Verano in Madrid.

The trio frequently collaborates with contemporary composers such as Sérgio Azevedo, Alexandre Delgado and Alberto Colla, and dedicated their debut album Une Goutte d’Ombre to the music of Emmanuel Hieaux (Disques Coriolan). They regularly perform for the Portuguese national radio station RTP – Antena 2.

Booklet for Portuguese Piano Trios, Vol. 2