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Brazilian composer and musicologist presents 'Harry Crowl: The Genius and the Clarinet' this Saturday (18/04) at the Paredes Music Conservatory Auditorium in the Porto district.
Ten years after his first recital at the Casa da Música, the energy that Kholodenko managed to maintain from the first to the last bar of such a physically demanding work never ceases to surprise us.
Is it possible to “translate José Afonso for the cello”? Inspired by Paulo Gaio Lima, three young musicians set to work and proved that it is. Opinion by Nuno Pacheco
The musician was 87 years old.
1938-2026. Founder of the New Portuguese Philharmonic and the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, he promoted works by Portuguese composers such as Joly Braga Santos.
Álvaro Cassuto founded the New Portuguese Philharmonic and worked with both national and international orchestras. He leaves behind a vast discography, including the complete symphonies of Joly Braga Santos.
Composer and professor Sérgio Azevedo writes about the conductor — his “friend and mentor” — who died at 87: “Superb” in orchestral conducting, and demanding “with musicians, managers, and patrons.”
Conductor Álvaro Cassuto, who died today at the age of 87, was “one of the great creators and a reference figure in the history of contemporary music and musical dissemination,” states the President of the Republic in a note of condolence published on the Presidency's website.
The conductor and composer died this Monday, at the age of 87, at his residence in Guincho, Cascais.
The show will take place between April 9 and 24 at the Teatro Camões in Lisbon.
Álvaro Cassuto died this Monday at the age of 87.
The conductor died this Monday at the age of 87.
Conductor Álvaro Cassuto died this Monday at the age of 87 in Cascais. He founded the New Portuguese Philharmonic and the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, worked with national and international orchestras, and leaves behind a vast discography, including the complete symphonies of Joly Braga Santos.
Conductor Álvaro Cassuto died today at the age of 87 at his home in Guincho, Cascais, a source close to the family told the Lusa agency.
Conductor Álvaro Cassuto was “one of the most renowned Portuguese conductors,” recalls the Centre for Research & Information of Portuguese Music. He died this Monday at the age of 87.
He founded the New Portuguese Philharmonic, worked with national and international orchestras, and leaves behind a vast discography.
Conductor Álvaro Cassuto passed away this Monday, 6 April, at the age of 87 at his home in Guincho, Cascais, a source close to the family told the Lusa agency. Álvaro Cassuto founded the New Portuguese Philharmonic, worked with national and international orchestras, and leaves behind a vast discography, including the complete symphonies of Joly Braga Santos.
He was 87 years old
INTERVIEW || Martim Sousa Tavares shows how music is made of time. Of times that reject haste. 'People need to realise they have much more to gain if they don't wish to have everything in a five-minute version'. Of contrasts in time. 'The worst audiences in classical music are not the young, they are the old. It is the old who cough, who sleep during concerts'. Of new times. 'Artificial intelligence music is no worse than 90% of pop music, which is a real rubbish dump'. And of the things that only the passage of time allows us to confirm. 'In 100 years, we will know who the geniuses were that, in 2026, were walking among us'.
Pianist Inês Filipe will perform a concert on Saturday as part of Ponta Delgada 2026 - Portuguese Capital of Culture. The event “combines musical interpretation and explanation,” according to the organisers.
“Lusitana Música”, by Tiago Manuel da Hora, will be presented on April 9th. Musicologist Rui Vieira Nery highlights the “rescue” of forgotten figures of classical music.
Pianist Alessio Bax and the Gulbenkian Orchestra performed Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 on March 20th, as well as Felix Mendelssohn's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Hans Werner Henze's 'Symphony No. 8'.
Easter will be celebrated differently at the Clérigos Church in Porto. Classical music will surround the monument every night.
Easter at the Clérigos gains a new dimension this year.
In “The Space Within”, João Barradas' accordion is a privileged mediator, an instrument of breath and time
A unique and unrepeatable live music experience in a 165-minute recital last Monday at the Gulbenkian's Grand Auditorium. Every time we listen to the Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov, it is as if he has fallen from the sky.
The Amigos de Música announce two highly anticipated concerts this April featuring the young Italian pianist Leonardo Pierdomenico, one of the most exciting talents of the new generation of virtuosos. The post Amigos de Música welcome acclaimed Italian pianist Leonardo Pierdomenico appeared first on Portugal Resident.
An exploration of the perceptions surrounding classical music, addressing its elitist reputation and the critical need for accessible music education.
The Casa da Música was full once again for one of the most important and anticipated moments for its audience. On Monday, the pianist will perform the same programme in Lisbon at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Combining the three-movement 'Violin Concerto' (1910) by Edward Elgar (1857-1934) with the 'Symphony No. 4' (1885) by Johannes Brahms (1833-97), a work much admired by the former, evokes the memory of both composers. Last Friday at the Gulbenkian, under the direction of Hannu Lintu, the transcendent sound of violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky was revealed.
