We don’t always know what to expect from a percussion recital. There are so many possible instruments! So many ways to play them! Sound is the limit. That’s precisely what it’s all about, at least since the early decades of the 20th century, when figures such as Luigi Russolo, Igor Stravinsky, and Edgard Varèse set out in search of new sounds, giving prominence to instruments that had previously been relegated to the background. They can be bass drums, tom-toms, vibraphones, marimbas… With this same desire, OML percussionist Rodrigo Azevedo joins Agostinho Sequeira, a musician also trained at the Metropolitana schools and whose career was crowned in 2020 with 1st Prize at the TROMP International Percussion Competition in the Netherlands. They perform a program that demonstrates the variety of this new world. They synthesize the orchestral grandeur of Wagner and the nostalgic lyricism of Schumann. Further east, they delve into the secrets of the music of Igor Iofe and Hui Tak-Cheung. They indulge in experimentation and the rhythmic explosion of Iannis Xenakis’ two emblematic Rebonds.
Percussion Duo
Solistas da Metropolitana
Richard Wagner Overture to the opera Tannhäuser
Iannis Xenakis Rebonds B
Igor Iofe Y+Y
Robert Schumann Reverie, 7th piece from the cycle Scenes from Childhood
Hui Tak-Cheung OOTS (Out of the Shadows)
Iannis Xenakis Rebonds A
Rodrigo Azevedo, Agostinho Sequeira percussion
