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Composer: Tinoco, Luis

Cancoes do Sonhador Solitario (Songs from The Solitary Dreamer)

Gulbenkian Orchestra

Conductor: Miller, David Alan

Lyricist: Faria, Almeida

Camarinha, Raquel

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Soprano: Camarinha, Raquel

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Year of Production: June 2016

Playing Time: 00:05:25

Catalogue Number: NVF0114

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The work Cancoes do Sonhador Solitario (Songs from The Solitary Dreamer) - is a reduction of a cantata for narrator, soprano, children's chorus, orchestra and electronics, written in 2011 to a commission from Porto's Casa da Musica and setting a libretto by Portuguese writer Almeida Faria. For this shorter cycle, the composer has retained four songs for soprano and orchestra that have a poetic substance of their own, eliminating the narrative passages and choral dialogues.

The final text, O Anjo da agua (The Angel of Water),is about a female guardian angel who skims the fast-flowing waters, always looking ahead, and never back.The music here is again made up of repetitive pulses and long orchestral chords from which, eventually, fragmentary motifs emerge. The repetitive rhythms permeate the entire movement as the music box did in Um livro. The orchestration, however, means that in this case the music takes on not a dreamlike but a dramatic,imperious dimension. And so not only this cycle, but the album as a whole is brought to a close - no abrupt ending here, rather a kind of evanescence, a lingering resonance that never quite fades away.