Works

To Inês, my niece

1. Colhei, colhei alegres… 2. Meu doce amor… 3. O súbito prazer engana, e erra. 4. Ó Sol claro… ó noite triste! 5. Não sei que hei… 6. Sonhos tristes! Sonhos cruéis! 7. Abraçai-me, meus filhos, abraçai-me.

Instrumentation (detailed)

Soloists	Soprano
Winds and Brass	Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, French Horn, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, 2 Bassoon, 2 Horn, 2 Trumpet
Percussion	Percussion (Timpani, Bass Drum)
Strings (plucked / bowed)	6 First Violins, 4 Second Violins, 3 Viola, 3 Cello, 2 Double Bass

Performer(s)

When I approached the Inês de Castro subject, I looked for a text that the character Inês, spoke by herself. So, it was a natural choice to select several excerpts of “A Castro”. The dramatic text written in blank verse, allows that the selection of seven short excerpts sustains the poetic strength of the drama and resumes the legend by António Ferreira (1528-1569) words. From those excerpts, I structured the piece in seven short movements each one is presented almost without development; however exists a clear connection between them. Returning to the myth of Inês de Castro, whose story is rather known, is impossible to ignore her tragic end. It is very interesting to find, in the beginning of the text, a happy and excited Inês, by the joy of living. That joy characterized the initial movements, of course, all the dramatic elements happen naturally in the following movements. The musical discourse develops not far from an operatic way, driven by the soprano, embodying the character of Inês, which relates her own story; but the music is also strongly marked by ideas connected with instrumental writing, characterized mainly by an harmonic thought, valuing interval and acoustic qualities, and by the exploration of the instruments tone qualities, reflecting that way, the feelings lived by Inês in the drama: the initial joy, the ardent love, the secrecy, the evil presage, the anguish, the acceptance of the death, and the farewell to her children.

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Inês	Performance	2012/Apr/07		Palácio Foz	Çisbon	Portugal	Margarida Marecos (soprano), Isa Antunes (piano)	Notes	Version for Voce and Piano - 2 songs: nos. 2 and 7
Version for Voce and Piano - 2 songs: nos. 2 and 7
Inês	Performance	2012/Apr/12		Casa Verdades de Faria, Museu da Música Portuguesa	Cascais	Portugal	Margarida Marecos (soprano), Isa Antunes (piano)	Notes	Version for Voice and Piano - 2 songs: nos. 2 and 7
Version for Voice and Piano - 2 songs: nos. 2 and 7
Inês	Performance	2012/Jun/09	Sábados às 17h	Auditório Viana da Mota, Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa	Lisbon	Portugal	Orquestra Sinfónica da ESML, Sílvia Mateus (soprano ), Vasco Pearce de Azevedo (conductor)	Notes
Inês	Premiere	2007/May/20	Alcobaça Municipality / Cistermúsica - Alcobaça Music Festival	Alcobaça Cine-Theatre	Alcobaça	Portugal	Algarve Orchestra: Mónica Pais (soprano) Cesário Costa (conductor)	Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Scores	Carlos Marecos / Inês  Inês, Sete Miniaturas Sobre "A Castro" de António Ferreira		ines Carlos Marecos	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2014 2014