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CAPUCHOS MUSIC FESTIVAL 2023
Artistic Director: Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro
25 MAY to 23 JUNE 2023
Almada - Portugal
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Welcome to the 2023 edition of the Capuchos Music Festival!
"In the spring, cherry blossoms, in the summer the cuckoo.
In autumn the moon, and in winter the snow, clear, cold."
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253)
Capuchos Music Festival 2023 is inspired by the seasons of the year, building an arc of four centuries that opens with the unavoidable "Le Quattro Stagioni", composed by Vivaldi 300 years ago, and closes with the Portuguese premiere of "The American Four Seasons", written by Philip Glass in 2009, to which are added the cycles of seasons by Tchaikovsky, in the 19th century, and by Piazzolla, in the 20th century.
The succession of seasons is one of the evidences of our perception of the passage of time, and FMC'23 will present concerts dedicated to various temporal dimensions: with choral works from the time of the foundation of Convento dos Capuchos, the Renaissance; the time of creation in Darius Milhaud's "La Création du Monde" and the redemptive apocalypse of Olivier Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps"; repertoire inspired by summer time, such as Hector Berlioz's "Les Nuits d'Eté", Samuel Barber's "Summer Music", George Gershwin's "Summertime"...
The FMC'23 will be held, as usual, at the place that gives it its name, the beautiful Convento dos Capuchos, and, for the first time, will present three concerts at Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite.
Artists and ensembles of great relevance will be present, including, internationally, the Venice Baroque Orchestra "I Solisti Veneti", the Budapest Chamber Orchestra "Franz Liszt", and the Hermès Quartet, and national reference ensembles, such as the Officium Ensemble choir, the DSCH Schostakovich Ensemble, and the new musical projects 100 Caminhos and Juventus Ensemble, which will bring together young and established Portuguese musicians.
Among the great international soloists, stand out the violinists Mario Hossen, Jack Liebeck, and Esther Hoppe, singers Lena Belkina, Ana Karina Rossi, Deniz Uzun, who will be in her Portuguese debut, cellist Christian Poltéra, clarinetist Pascal Moraguès, pianist Marianna Shirinyan, mandolinist Marcelo Nisinman, and last but not least, the legendary American pianist Stephen Kovacevich.
Throughout the festival, works by several Portuguese composers from various "eras", from the Renaissance to contemporary music, will be performed, with premieres and the highlight being the concert "Carta Branca a António Victorino d'Almeida", marking his 70 years of artistic activity.
In 2023, the cycle of the already emblematic "Capuchos Talks", curated and moderated by Carlos Vaz Marques, will be dedicated to the centenary of birth of Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Natália Correia, and Eugénio de Andrade.
And, for the first time, the Festival will present in 2023 a set of Capuchos Masterclasses, oriented by professors of international reference, pre-concert talks called “Capuchos Preludes”, moderated by João Almeida, and a Capuchos Walk in the Protected Landscape of the Costa da Caparica Fossil Cliff, where the Convent is located.
The poem that serves as the epigraph to this text was written in the 13th century by the Zen Buddhist master Eihei Dogen. In the apparent yet expressive simplicity with which he describes the beauty of the seasons, Dogen connects us to the essence of elements that follow one another in the rhythm of the seasons. Dogen gave the title Innate Spirit to his poem, a spirit of contemplation, discovery, and sharing that inspires this 2023 edition of the Capuchos Music Festival.
FILIPE PINTO-RIBEIRO
Artistic Director
General Programme
25 MAY, Thursday, PM 9.30, Convento dos Capuchos
The Time of Creation
Ravel, Debussy, Milhaud
Hermès Quartet
Omer Bouchez, Elise Liu Violin
Lou Yung-Hsin Chang Viola
Yan Levionnois Cello
Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro Piano
Debussy : String Quartet
Ravel : String Quartet
Milhaud : La Création du Monde, Op.81b, for Piano Quintet
27 MAY, Saturday, PM 9.00, Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite
OPENING CONCERT
Vivaldi Four Seasons
I Solisti Veneti
Lena Belkina, Mezzo-soprano
Mario Hossen, Violin and Direction
Geminiani : Concerto Grosso "La Folia"
Händel : Arias "Ombra mai fu" and “Crude furie degli orridi abissi”, from Opera “Serse”
Tartini : Sonata ''Il trillo del diavolo”
Vivaldi : Aria “Armatae face et anguibus”, from Oratorio “Judith Triumphans”
Vivaldi : “Le Quattro Stagioni”
28 MAY Sunday, PM 7.00, Convento dos Capuchos
Voice and Piano recital
Summertime
Deniz Uzun, Mezzo-soprano
David Santos, Piano
Pieces of H. Berlioz, J. Brahms, E. Korngold, A. Berg, J. Marx, A. Mahler, X. Montsalvatge and G. Gershwin
3 JUN, Saturday, PM 9.00, Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite
Astor Piazzolla
Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Marcelo Nisinman, Bandoneon
Ana Karina Rossi, Vocal
David Castro-Balbi, Violin
Tiago Pinto-Ribeiro, Double bass
Rosa Maria Barrantes, Piano
Alberto Mesirca, Electric Guitar
Astor Piazzolla : “Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas”
Marcelo Nisinman : “Hombre Tango”; “Pourquoi tu te lèves”; “Argentinos en Europa”
Astor Piazzolla : “Balada para mi muerte”; “Jacinto Chiclana”; “Chiquilín de Bachín”; “Balada para un loco”; “María de Buenos Aires”
4 JUN, Sunday, PM 7.00, Convento dos Capuchos
The Time of Capuchos
Masterpieces of the Renaissance
Coro Officium Ensemble
Pedro Teixeira, Conductor
P. Palestrina : Missa Papæ Marcelli
Th. Tallis : O nata lux
Lobo : Audivi vocem
Allegri : Miserere mei, Deus
Lotti : Crucifixus
Lassus : Salve Regina
Brito : O Rex Gloriæ
10 JUN, Saturday, PM 9.00 Convento dos Capuchos
Piano Recital
Tchaikovsky Seasons and Chopin
Marianna Shirinyan, Piano
P. Tchaikovsky : The Seasons Op. 37a
F. Chopin : Ballades
11 JUN, Sunday, PM 7.00, Convento dos Capuchos
The Winds of Time 1
Juventus Ensemble & Rui Lopes
Juventus Ensemble
Sónia Pais, Flute
Luísa Bandeira, Oboe
João Paiva, Clarinet
Luís Duarte Moreira, Horn
Rui Lopes, Bassoon
S. Barber: Summer Music
E. Carrapatoso: Five Elegies
S. Azevedo: Pastorals
C. Nielsen: Quintet Op. 43
11 JUN, Sunday, PM 9.00, Convento dos Capuchos
The Winds of Time 2
100 Caminhos & João Barradas
100 Caminhos
João Moreira, Trumpet
Carolina Alves, Trumpet
Luís Vieira, Horn
Hugo Assunção, Tenor Trombone
Joaquim Rocha, Bass Trombone
João Barradas, Acordeon
C. Monteverdi : 4 Madrigais
J. Horovitz : Music Hall Suite
Anne Victorino d’Almeida : Acroase Op. 90 (world premiere)
Ewazen : Frost Fire
11 JUN, Sunday, PM 11.00, Convento dos Capuchos
The Jazz Time
João Barradas solo
João Barradas, Acordeon
13 JUN, Tuesday, PM 9.00, Convento dos Capuchos
Time of Tribute 1
Carte Blanche to António Victorino d’Almeida
António Victorino d’Almeida, Piano and comments
Ana Maria Pinto, Soprano
Marina Pacheco, Soprano
Joana Moreira, Piano
Olga Amaro, Piano
António Victorino d’Almeida : Piano and Songs on texts by Fernando Pessoa, Natália Correia, André Heller et al.
17 JUN, Saturday, PM 9.00, Convento dos Capuchos
Time of Tribute 2
Piano Recital by Stephen Kovacevich
Stephen Kovacevich, Piano
A. Berg : Sonata
L. Beethoven: Bagatelles Op. 119 & Op. 126 (selection); Sonatas Op. 109 and 110
18 JUN, Sunday, PM 6.00, Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite
CLOSING CONCERT
Four Seasons by Philip Glass
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Jack Liebeck, Violin
Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, Piano and Direction
Arvo Pärt: “Orient & Occident”; “Summa”
Johann Sebastian Bach : Concerto BWV 1056
Philip Glass : “The American Four Seasons”, Concerto N. º 2 for Violin and Orchestra
22 JUN, Thursday, PM 9.00, Convento dos Capuchos
Capuchos Postlude
Quartet for the End of Time
DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble
Pascal Moraguès, Clarinet
Esther Hoppe, Violin
Christian Poltéra, Cello
Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, Piano
O. Messiaen : Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
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