Works

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass	Flute, Clarinet
Percussion	Marimba
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Cello

Performer(s)

This work resulted from a commission from Sonoscopia associated with the Porto City Council's Cultura em Expansão project. In accordance with the general idea of the project, when defining the proposed territories, I chose Miragaia, an area that has many traces in my memories of the 1970s and 1980s. In this painting 3 Paráfrases has, however, a literal meaning: the musical material derives largely from my 1985Three Fragments for Clarinet, in particular Paráfrases I and II. Paráfrases III with the subtitle... look to the other side... refers to the double relationship of the looks from Porto to Gaia and from Gaia to Porto as it appears in (my) memory of those years; It therefore proposes a metaphorical journey of a sound mass in obsessive tremolos from a starting point to an ending point, both imaginary. This work allowed me to look at a work many years old in a renewed way, from the acoustic expansion in multiple imitations of the peculiar quartet, to the creation of a new route.

António Pinho Vargas

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
3 Paráfrases	Premiere	2023/Nov/10	Obras portuenses na década de 20	Igreja de São Pedro de Miragaia	Porto	Portugal	Supernova Ensemble João Dias (percussion) Clara Saleiro (flute) Carina Albuquerque (cello) Frederic Cardoso (clarinet)	Notes