Works

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass	Clarinet
Keyboards	Piano
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Violin, Cello

Performer(s)

My reading of the tale Mandarim by Eça de Queirós has inspired a large number of musical associations that leads me to pre-define this piece. The title of the mentioned work and the character of its narrative made me think of the Miraculous Mandarin by Bartók, where the Hungarian composer insists on a small motif in the clarinet that appears throughout the piece. This motif, constructed over some intervals I like, has served as a pretext for the solo of the violin that introduces this piece. The section that follows this solo is characterized by the presence of the entire quartet using undifferentiated gestures. The starting motif on the piano is a transformation of a recurrent contour on the clarinet in Messian’s Quartet for the End of Time: I wanted to use not only the same instrumentation, but also a common gesture. Finally, the two last sections present, respectively, the supremacy of the cello and the clarinet, the rest of the ensemble serving as a harmonic carpet under the solo lines. The title suggests the importance of ensemble in the narrative of the piece: all have space for different functions (soloists, accompanists, and commentator). In spite of there not being any intentional scenic element, Four characters taken from a tale functions as a theatrical play, where its narrative is based in conversations between the timbres of the instruments, their musical gestures and the cross-fade between being a soloist and in the second role of a spectator or support. Hugo Ribeiro March ‘07

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Quatro Personagens Saídas de um Conto	Premiere	2007/Jul/21	Póvoa do Varzim International Festival	Concert Hall	Póvoa do Varzim	Portugal	Camerata Senza Misura: Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Evandra Gonçalves (violin), Filipe Quaresma (cello) and Elsa Silva (piano)	Notes
Quatro Personagens Saídas de um Conto	Performance	2012/Dec/14		La Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur	Montréal	Canada	Ensemble Allogène: François Gagné, clarinet Lizann Gervai, violin Émilie Girard-Charest, violoncello Daniel Añez, piano	Notes
Quatro Personagens Saídas de um Conto	Performance	2008/Feb/14	CCB - OrchestrUtopica / Futuros 1.2	Belém Art Centre - Luís de Freitas Branco Concert Hall	Lisbon	Portugal	OrchestrUtopica: Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Elsa Silva (piano), Vítor Vieira (violino), Guenrikh Elessine (cello)	Notes
Quatro Personagens Saídas de um Conto	Performance	2008/Apr/27	Algarve Tourism Region / Algarve Internatioanl Music Festival	Alcoutim Church	Alcoutim	Portugal	Camerata Senza Misura: Elsa Marques da Silva (piano), Evandra de Brito Gonçalves (violin), Filipe Quaresma (cello), Nuno Pinto (clarinet)	Notes
Quatro Personagens Saídas de um Conto	Performance	2008/Apr/26	Algarve Tourism Region / Algarve Internatioanl Music Festival	Monchique Church	Monchique	Portugal	Camerata Senza Misura: Elsa Marques da Silva (piano), Evandra de Brito Gonçalves (violin), Filipe Quaresma (cello), Nuno Pinto (clarinet)	Notes
Quatro Personagens Saídas de um Conto	Performance	2008/Apr/25	Algarve Tourism Region / Algarve Internatioanl Music Festival	Vila do Bispo Church	Vila do Bispo	Portugal	Camerata Senza Misura: Elsa Marques da Silva (piano), Evandra de Brito Gonçalves (violin), Filipe Quaresma (cello), Nuno Pinto (clarinet)	Notes