Ex Tempore Ensemble
The programme is organised around the theme of Resurrection, understood as artistic renewal, sonic transformation and creative rebirth.
In Samuel Barber’s Summer Music, originally written for wind quintet, the music charts a course of progressive sonic awakening, evolving from introspection towards a full expressive affirmation.
This is followed by Gustav Mahler’s Three Songs “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” (The Boy’s Magic Horn), where resurrection manifests itself in the transformation of the folk song. In this version for wind quintet, folk-inspired melodies take on a new timbral life, whilst preserving their essential identity.
With Fernando Lopes-Graça’s Sete Lembranças para Vieira da Silva, the dimension of memory and artistic evocation emerges: music transforms memory into a living presence, affirming creative continuity as a form of renewal.
The concert culminates with Antonín Dvořák’s American Quartet N.º 12, originally for string quartet and presented in a version for wind quintet, which expresses perhaps the most human form of resurrection: an inner rebirth, marked by serenity, energy and optimism.
Throughout the programme, the audience experiences different forms of resurrection—inner, aesthetic and sonic—revealing music’s capacity for continual renewal.
Programme
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Summer Music, Op. 31
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Três Canções "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (A trompa mágica do rapaz)
II. Rheinlegendchen (Uma Lenda do Reno)
IV. Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? (Quem Inventou esta Canção?)
XI. Lob des hohen Verstandes (Elogio da Sabedoria)
Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-1994)
Sete Lembranças para Vieira da Silva
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Quarteto Americano n.º 12, Arr. para quinteto de sopros
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Lento
III. Scherzo (Molto vivace)
IV. Finale (Vivace ma non troppo)
Performers
Beatriz Baião, flute
Diogo Pinheiro, oboe
Vitor Fernandes, clarinet
Nuno Miguel Nogueira, horn
Daniel Mota, bassoon
Information
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