In the 1940s, Fernando Lopes Graça began composing “Heroic, Dramatic, Bucolic and Other Songs”. In author’s editions, he published eight notebooks, six of them even before April 25, under ban by the political regime. In Liberdade, the “message” became more explicit, as exemplified by the recreation of the melody of Grândola, Vila Morena. Conductor Luís Cardoso transcribed some of these songs for orchestra. For her part, Anne Victorino d’Almeida also recovered melodies by Zeca Afonso to celebrate the Revolution, with Histórias de Abril. And because it’s all about the spirit of change, Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony comes to mind.

April 25, 50 Years
Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra
Participative Choir
Loures Conservatory of Arts

L. v. Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Anne Victorino d’Almeida Histórias de Abril, on themes by Zeca Afonso
Fernando Lopes Graça Canções Heroicas (arr. Luís Cardoso)
Chico Buarque Tanto Mar

Isaac Fernandes and Pedro Galego [Artallis Conservatory] conductors of the participatory choir

José Eduardo Gomes conductor