Lopes-Graça: Songs to Poetic and Folk Texts

Baleiro, André, Gaspar, Susana, Vieira de Almeida, Nuno

TOCC 0825

The Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes Graça (1906–94) was one of the thousands of victims of Salazar’s right-wing dictatorship: his works were confiscated, and he was prohibited from teaching.

He responded in music, with a prolific output inspired by both folk-music and the evolving musical language of his European contemporaries, marrying tradition and modernism.

His songs for voice and piano set texts from both popular and ‘high’ culture, unified by his ardent humanist outlook and the dignified manner in which he expressed it.

Works:

•Lopes Graca: 7 Negro-American Folksongs, Op. 75 / LG195: No. 1, You may bury me in the East
•Lopes Graca: 7 Negro-American Folksongs, Op. 75 / LG195: No. 2, Sunday mornin’ ban’
•Lopes Graca: 7 Negro-American Folksongs, Op. 75 / LG195: No. 3, In this lan’
•Lopes Graca: 7 Negro-American Folksongs, Op. 75 / LG195: No. 4, Shepherd, Shepherd
•Lopes Graca: 7 Negro-American Folksongs, Op. 75 / LG195: No. 5, Screw this cotton
•Lopes Graca: 7 Negro-American Folksongs, Op. 75 / LG195: No. 6, Calvary
•Lopes Graca: 7 Negro-American Folksongs, Op. 75 / LG195: No. 7, John Henry
•Lopes Graca: Tríptico de D. João, Op. 246 / LG247: I. Orgulho de D. João no inferno
•Lopes Graca: Tríptico de D. João, Op. 246 / LG247: II. Lamento de D. João no inferno
•Lopes Graca: Tríptico de D. João, Op. 246 / LG247: III. Sarcasmo de D. João no inferno
•Lopes Graca: Duas Canções de ‘Finis Patriae’, Op. 65 / LG186: No. 1, Mar pavoroso, mar tenebroso
•Lopes Graca: Duas Canções de ‘Finis Patriae’, Op. 65 / LG186: No. 2, Falam pocilgas de operários
•Lopes Graca: O Cavador, LG186
•Lopes Graca: Quatre Sonnets de Ronsard, Op. 162 / LG229: No. 1, Je n’ay plus que les os...
•Lopes Graca: Quatre Sonnets de Ronsard, Op. 162 / LG229: No. 2, Ah! Longues nuicts d’hyver...
•Lopes Graca: Quatre Sonnets de Ronsard, Op. 162 / LG229: No. 3, Quoy! Mon ame, dors-tu engourdie
•Lopes Graca: Quatre Sonnets de Ronsard, Op. 162 / LG229: No. 4, Il faut laisser maisons et vergers…
•Lopes Graca: Dois Sonetos de António Nobre, Op. 70 / LG190: No. 1, Ó virgens que passais
•Lopes Graca: Terra e Céu, Op. 83 / LG197
•Lopes Graca: Duas Cantigas de Embalar, Op. 122 / LG207: No. 1, O meu menino é um anjo
•Lopes Graca: Duas Cantigas de Embalar, Op. 122 / LG207: No. 2, Faze ó ó meu pequenino
•Lopes Graca: Canções Populares Portuguesas, Série II, Op. 37 / LG171
•Lopes Graca: Canções Populares Portuguesas, Série III, Op. 49 / LG178: No. 13, Ó, ó, menino, ó
•Lopes Graca: Canções Populares Portuguesas, Série III, Op. 49 / LG178: No. 12, Canto da carregação
•Lopes Graca: Canções Populares Portuguesas, Série II, Op. 37 / LG171: No. 24, Ó senhora mãe dos homens

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05.11.26

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