There are some sounds that cling on to history, as if they refused to become extinct. That’s the case with Carlos Paredes’s melodies and the scratched chords. It has been over two decades since his death, and they insist on exploring meanings in these new times. In the year when we celebrate the centenary of the birth of this extraordinary musician, the Metropolitana transforms the guitar timbre into a symphonic register, bringing onto the stage at Teatro São Luiz some of the songs that the guitarist himself played there in 1992, such as Canto do Amanhecer, Verdes Anos and Dança Palaciana. The programme is complemented by impressions of the streets of Lisbon in readings by Frederico de Freitas and Saint-Saëns, a tribute to Haydn by Brahms, and Paganini’s spectacular Moto perpetuo, in a dialogue with Paredes’s Movimento Perpétuo.
Programme
Frederico de Freitas Prelúdio (sobre um pregão de Lisboa)
Carlos Paredes Lisboa e o Tejo (orch. Tiago Derriça)
Camille Saint-Saëns Une nuit à Lisbonne
Carlos Paredes Variações em Mi Menor (orch. Miguel Amaral)
Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Carlos Paredes Movimento Perpétuo (orch. Pedro Neves)
Niccolò Paganini Moto perpetuo (for orchestra)
