Paisagens Sonoras, Friday, 30th January, 21h00, Auditório da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Amidst dazzling landscapes and narratives, the sounds of the orchestra paint scenes of light, dreams, mystery and modernity. Debussy took “clouds” and “parties” as a pretext to seek diffuse perceptions as free as the imagination. Drawing on Mallarmé’s literary impressionism, he digressed on the story of a faun who, while playing the pan flute in the middle of the forest, allows himself to be intoxicated by the presence of nymphs. Mussorgsky also drew inspiration from words, but from Godol. In A Night on Bald Mountain, he suggests underground murmurs of supernatural voices, apparitions of dark spirits, and celebrates the black mass, the sabbath. Finally, Gershwin musically portrayed the dazzlement of an American tourist faced with the glamour of the Champs-Élysées and the Eiffel Tower.

Program:

C. Debussy 2 dos 3 Noturnos (Nuages e Fêtes)

C. Debussy Prelúdio à Sesta de um Fauno

M. Mussorgsky Uma Noite no Monte Calvo

G. Gershwin Um Americano em Paris


Direção Musical: Jean-Marc Burfin e/ou Alunos de Direção de Orquestra – ANSO

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) – 2 dos 3 Noturnos (Nuages e Fêtes) (1892-1893; 1900)

15 min. 

Claude Debussy – Prelúdio à Sesta de um Fauno (1894)

11 min.

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) – Uma Noite no Monte Calvo (1867; orquestração de N. Rimsky-Korsakov)

11 min.

George Gershwin (1898-1937) – Um Americano em Paris (1928)

20 min.

The NOVA community can access free tickets by sending an email to relacoespublica@metropolitana.pt.

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