Works

Instrumentation (detailed)

Keyboards	Piano
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Viola

The text Le Navigateur du Soleil Incandescent by the Portuguese poet Al Berto, articulates itself in two emotional levels: one melancholic, rather lyrical, in which Al Berto portraits love, the longing for love, the fantasy of a longing; and another in which Al Berto portraits solitude: for Al Berto, solitude is the solitude of terror, a state of revulsion and despair. It is on this level that the text is most autobiographical. Based on the original text, I worked out, with the poet, a sequence of fragments, which articulated in a chronological form in relation to the initial text give shape to the plot of this work. The result is a sequence of monologues in which the character, the Navigator, surrenders himself to the despair/melancholy of the absence of a love that will save him from his solitary destiny. Before the elaboration of the musical discourse, my work passed through the decoding of "images", "crystallized residues" retained in the memory after the reading of Al Berto's text. All this traces that remained from the reading of his texts are retrieved before they dilute or transform themselves, or simply disappear in the memory.

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Le Navigateur du Soleil Incandescent, première lettre	Performance	2007/Sep/22	Miso Music Portugal - Música Viva 2007 Festival	Casa da Música - Rehearsal Room 2	Porto	Portugal	Performa Ensemble: Helena Marinho (piano) David Lloyd (viola)	Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Festival Internacional de Música da Póvoa de Varzim Cândido Lima Isabel Soveral Fernando C. Lapa Sérgio Azevedo  Le Navigateur du Soleil Incandescent		le navigateur du soleil incandescent, premiere lettre Isabel Soveral	Numérica	2006
	Audio	Isabel Soveral & António Chagas Rosa Pas de Deux  Le Navigateur du Soleil Incandescent, première lettre		le navigateur du soleil incandescent, premiere lettre Isabel Soveral	Portugaler	2010