Composer, researcher, and Associate Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes is In Focus on the MIC.PT in May, to mark his 60th anniversary.
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Canzona VII for seven instruments was written in the last months of 2023. The work is based on the poem Regeneration by Henry Vaughan (1621-1695), one of the Metaphysical Poets of English literature. The poem appeared in the collection Silex Scintillans published in 1655.
In 1999 I used the same poem as the text for My Monstrous, Mountain’d Walke for six voices.
Canzona VII has seven movements each preceded by a quotation from the poem and with a different instrumentation - thus continuing the instrumental characteristics of great works in the repertoire such as em>Pierrot Lunaire, Quartet for the End of Time or Le Marteau sans Maître