Francisco Mignone: Maracatu de Chico Rei; Festa das Igrejas; Sinfonia Tropical (2005)

Like many artists in search of a national musical identity, yet chained to classical European models, Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone had considerable difficulty finding his own voice. The raw material of folk songs and dances from São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro were available to Mignone, and he used them to impressive effect in his lavish ballet for choir and orchestra, Maracatu de Chico Rei (1933), his four-part tone poem Festa das igrejas (1940), and his dramatic, single-movement Sinfonia Tropical (1958). Even so, ... Read More

Like many artists in search of a national musical identity, yet chained to classical European models, Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone had considerable difficulty finding his own voice. The raw material of folk songs and dances from São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro were available to Mignone, and he used them to impressive effect in his lavish ballet for choir and orchestra, Maracatu de Chico Rei (1933), his four-part tone poem Festa das igrejas (1940), and his dramatic, single-movement Sinfonia Tropical (1958). Even so, this music from his middle period sounds less Brazilian than Italian: the influences of Respighi on his orchestration and of Puccini on his highly melodic expression are pronounced, and Mignone recognized his indebtedness to those composers, as well as to his Italian father and several music teachers from Italy. Since this disc reflects only one aspect of Mignone's full output -- which at times flirted with Stravinskyian neo-Classicism and later extended into the "International school"... Read Less

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2005, BIS UPC: 675754813420 CD See All

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