Chamber music (+ than 8 instruments)
With amplification
Instrumentation (general)
2007
9' 00"
ensemble (13 instruments)
ensemble (13 instruments)
Document title Cadenzares
Date of Composition· 2007
Notes
Written for the project Four corners of the house, created and produced for the Music School at the National Conservatory in Lisbon by the composer. Invited composers with premiere works written for this occasion – Carlos Gomes, Eurico Carrapatoso, Fernando Lobo, Jorge Machado, Ivan Moody and Paulo Brandão.
Eli Camargo Júnior (direction); Ana Mendes, Miriam Cardoso e Joana Pereira (flutes); Tiago Menino (clarinet); Cláudia Varino (bass clarinet); Raquel Martins (soprano saxophone); Raimundo (tenor saxophone); Francisco Couto (trombone); António Pedro Segundo (percussion); Fábio Boa Vida (guitar); Eduardo Raon (harp); Andrea Joy (piano); Mariana Rodrigues Pinto (violin); Ricardo Tapadinhas (double bass)
Organization/Event Dias da Música 2007
Venue Belém Arts Centre
Town Lisbon
Country Portugal
Program Notes
Cadenzares was composed for a vigorous ensemble, structured over wide variations in density, based on the concept of cadenza – individual and virtuosic intervention, used as an interruptive element. Its expressive load is driven by the breaks that the solos impose on the tutti, and along with these dramatic breaks there are the extreme timbres – as it is done, for example, with the trio of flutes, the amplified acoustic guitar, the trombone or the effects of percussion. These components give rise to an intense, touching environment, where sonorities intersect in loose, colourful blocks, and extensive melodies floating on quicksand.
Eli Camargo Júnior, Post Opus, Quinta do Anjo, Portugal, May, 2020
