• Oct
    11
    5pm

Verdi, Händel, Wagner, Prokofiev, Forbes, Smith, Faria and Mangione

Centro Cultural de Belém (Small Auditorium), Lisbon

Alberto Roque, conductor. With the OSP Brass and Percussion Ensemble.

Synopsis

Nabucco, Verdi’s third opera was premiered at La Scala in 1842. One of the themes from the opera’s  Ouverture, the Va, pensiero  chorus,  was considered by the Italians as a hymn of patriotic resistance against the Austrian oppression.  Royal Music for Fireworks was commissioned by King George II to Häendel in 1749 in order to celebrate the signature of the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle and Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral is a well known passage of Wagner’s Lohengrin, an opera which was first performed in Weimar in August 1850. Three contemporary works will follow: Mike Forbes’s Torque for brass ensemble and percussion first performed in 2013, Reminiscence from the composer/saxophonist/pedagogue Tommy Smith, Victor Faria’s Fado do Adeus and finally Chuck Mangione’s Children of Sanchez whose main theme served as soundtrack for the film of the title and produced in 1978.

Performance Details

Conductor | Alberto Roque

OSP Percussion and Brass Ensemble

Programme

Giuseppe Verdi/arr. Hugo Assunção | Nabucodonosor Ouverture

Georg Friedrich Händel/arr. Jarrett Butler | Royal Music for Fireworks

Richard Wagner/arr. Jarrett Butler | Lohengrin : Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral

Prokofiev/arr. Jarrett Butler | The Love of the Three Oranges : March

Mike Forbes | Torque

Howie Smith | Reminiscence

Vítor de Faria (arr.) |  Deus e Adeus

Chuck Mangione/arr. Jarrett Butler | Children of Sanchez