Topic: Hi to you all.

[ccar]

Carlos - having studied Spanish in college (can't speak much anymore, unfortunately -  ) and been to Portugal, the two languages are different; Portuguese seems to have some more of the 'softness' of French pronunciations, but just my superficial impressions - but just curious, if it is easier for a Spanish & Portuguese speaker to understand each other vs. one speaking to a person fluent in Italian or French?  Dave  

Dave

The same latin root in all. But Spanish-Castellano and Portuguese are indeed closer and easier to be mutually learned and understood. There are even more similarities between Portuguese and the north Spanish-Galego. Many portuguese may be able to naturally understand the basic meaning of a Spanish sentence and even an Italian. Less from French. But the inverse may not be true - in my experience a spoken common portuguese sentence is more difficult to be understood by a spanish or an italian - and  sometimes, and it always puzzles me, even by a portuguese speaking brazilian.    

Thank you again for the warm welcome.
Carlos

[ccar]

[I'd be interested in where you live in Portugal?  My only trip to your country was back in the 1970s - mainly Lisbon & the surrounding areas, plus a short visit to the islad of Madeira - just beautiful!  I've collected vintage Ports for years but have never made a trip to Oporto or up the Douro River to the actually vineyards - would be a joy for me!   

I live in Lisbon.
Glad you have such good memmories from your trip to Portugal. I also love vintage Port very much (and also the not so well known, but wonderful, Madeira old vintages).
The visits to the Porto vineyards (around the Douro river) are a must. So you may well have a good reason to come back.

Thank you for your message and wellcome.
Carlos   

[ccar]

Hola Carlos, y saludos de otro Carlos pero de otro continente, y mucho mas al Sur.

Carlos al Sur
Gracias y saludos para usted.
Carlos al Norte

[ccar]

Bem-vindo à GMG, Carlos!

Muito Obrigado pela boa recepção no grupo ( e pelo bom português !)
Até breve.
Carlos

[ccar]

A warm welcome to you--and that you may never be intimidated by the usually civil, but sometimes--accidentally--rough tone that resonates through the halls of the GMG Forum.

Best wishes and regards,

jfl

Thanks for the good warning.
But maybe the roughness (or even some sand paper) is sometimes a heathy polish for my own taste or opinions. That´s part of the game and I hope I'll survive to it .

Best wishes
And thank you all again for the warm welcome.
Carlos
               

[bhodges]

Hi Carlos, and welcome from New York City.  I've not been to your beautiful country yet, but hope to someday.  Among other things, I want to hear a concert in the Casa da Musica in Oporto (below).  Have you been there?  The building looks absolutely gorgeous.

--Bruce

[ccar]

Hi Bruce.

Yes I did. Casa da Música is now one of the modern architectural icons of Oporto and the programming has a mix of various musical genres and shows. In the "classical" there is much modern and contemporary music. I am sending you below the link to the agenda.

Thanks for the welcome and interest.

Carlos

http://www.casadamusica.com/default.aspx?langSite=eng 

[k a rl h e nn i ng]

Welcome, Carlos!

[secondwind]

Hi to you all.
My name is Carlos and I live in Portugal.
I registered yesterday and am just beginning to explore the forum.  After my first post I realized I should have introduced myself first. Forgive me for the lack of etiquette.

Hi Carlos,
I think I had posted a dozen times before I saw the Introductions section, so I just never did it!  (And no one has kicked me out yet. . . )  Welcome to the forum, and have fun!

[Franco]

Olá

Bom dia

I love Portuguese - and have tried learning how to speak (Brazilian), but without not much progress thus far.  I also love Fado, and have several CDs of this music.

Nice to have you join us.

[ccar]

Olá

Bom dia

I love Portuguese - and have tried learning how to speak (Brazilian), but without not much progress thus far.  I also love Fado, and have several CDs of this music.

Nice to have you join us.

Obrigado Franco.
I am glad to Know your interest in Fado and Portuguese.
As in any other type of music Fado has many  different "styles". I am curious to know whitch Fado singers / CDs you love most.

Thanks again for your message and welcome.

Carlos  

[Harry]

You are very welcome Carlos, hope you find on GMG what you need.

[Franco]

Obrigado Franco.
I am glad to Know your interest in Fado and Portuguese.
As in any other type of music Fado has many  different "styles". I am curious to know whitch Fado singers / CDs you love most.

Thanks again for your message and welcome.

Carlos  

Some of my favorites are

Christina Branco/Kronos, Sensus
Ana Moura/Guarda-Me a Vida Na Mão
Misia/Garras Dos Sentidos
Marizia/Fado Curvo, Terra
Alexandra/Um Parfum De Fado

But I would greatly appreciate comments and suggestions from you.

Até logo

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[ccar]

Franco

Franco

You picked a wide and wonderfull selection of new singers.

If you want some more suggestions I would probably try:
1. Camané - a relatively new and very talented singer, with an approach that is quite intimate, in the line of the more traditional small-scale Fado songs and musics (Uma Noite de Fados EMI B00004S6JR)
2. Amália - the portuguese icon of Fado in the last century; she has lots of recordings but personally I would try to get some of the old and more traditional compilations
(Estranha Forma de Vida EMI PORTUGAL B00005NG9I)

Um abraço,

Carlos        

[ccar]

Welcome, Carlos!

Thank you for your welcome message.

How interesting to have an active composer in a classical music forum.

I looked at your website and found your opus 90  - Castelo dos Anjos. Being a portuguese, I was curious about the name and the
piece. Can you please give some more details about it ?   

Carlos

[Bogey]

Welcome aboard and thanks for posting on the historical thread with the Busch cds!

[ccar]

Thank You Bogey.

It was you that mentioned Fritz Busch in the topic and I just wanted to endorse him.
In fact, when I try to re listen a musical piece I am drawn many times to "historical" recordings. Not because they are "historical" but because, in spite of nondigital sound, I feel the music is sometimes given in a more expressive, individual or direct way. In some way it is a pity that these "historical" recordings and artists tend to become inclosed in specialist "archaeological" threads or editions. But perhaps it is the best (or the only) way to revive them. I will gladly continue to post on the "historical" but I hope the moderators will let us continue to suggest some oldies in the more general threads.  

Carlos        

[k a rl h e nn i ng]

Thank you for your welcome message.

How interesting to have an active composer in a classical music forum.

I looked at your website and found your opus 90  - Castelo dos Anjos. Being a portuguese, I was curious about the name and the piece. Can you please give some more details about it ?

Thanks for inquiring, Carlos!

The piece was commissioned by a Boston-area vocal trio, Tapestry.  One of the members has at times done research in Portugal . . . at any rate, when we spoke about the possibility of my writing a piece for them, I was sent some medieval texts on a Christmas theme, most of them in Portuguese (one of them in Spanish).  The idea was probably that I should choose one from among them, but in fact I liked all of them, so I set all four as a sort of miniature cantata.

[vandermolen]

Greetings from Sussex, UK. There are a number of fans her of Portuguese composer Joly Braga Santos - are you familiar with his music?

[ccar]

Greetings from Sussex, UK. There are a number of fans her of Portuguese composer Joly Braga Santos - are you familiar with his music?

Yes. And being a newbie I must say how impressed I am to see all the fans and so much interest on his music at the CMF.
He is certainly a wonderful composer. I love his inspired sense of melody, his musical landscapes and, particularly in his first symphonies, what I always sensed as a very portuguese mixture of poetical intimacy and epic ideals. I appreciate the richness and transparency of his orchestration, the elegant directness of his musical speech and the simplicity and humane character of his music. Maybe this was a reflection of who was considered, by those who Knew him, as a very generous and sincere person. Indeed, in a world of so many intelectualistic "creational" dogmas, he had courage to confess he always wanted that people would really enjoy his music.
I didn't Know him personally but I do remember, during my teens, seeing him frequently at the Lisbon concerts and recitals with a very gentle and almost humble attitude.
The Portugal Som edition and, more recently, the effort to revive his work by his friend and conductor Alvaro Cassuto are much to be praised.
Maybe we may now hope seeing Joly Braga Santos in more concert programmes and listening to different interpretations of his compositions by other orchestras and conductors.