António Chagas Rosa - Selected Discography

António Chagas Rosa - Drumming Grupo De Percussão*, Miquel Bernat – Mares

Label: mpmp – MPMPCD0031

Format: CD, Album

Country: Portugal

Released: 2016

Genre: Classical

Style: Contemporary

Tracklist:

1- Mares: Falésias (2008-2009)

2- Mares: Cavalos Marinhos

3- Mares: Ilha de Moçambique

4- Yemaya's Song (2013)

5- Deep Water Music (2002)

6- Four Cartoons: I (1999)

7- Four Cartoons: II

8- Four Cartoons: III

9- Four Cartoons: IV

Companies, etc.

Engineered At – Estúdios Valentim de Carvalho

Mixed At – Estúdios Valentim de Carvalho

Recorded At – Numérica

Credits

Orchestrated By – Miquel Bernat

Percussion – Drumming, João Castro Cunha, Miquel Bernat, Rui Rodrigues (5)

Producer – Drumming, Süse Ribeiro

Recorded By – Fernando Rocha (tracks: 3, 2,4)

Recorded By, Musical Assistance, Edited By, Mixed By – Suse Ribeiro* (tracks: 1,2,3,4)

With Mares by António Chagas Rosa, Drumming Grupo de Percussão has released another

high-quality compilation of diverse music for percussion. The compositions, all written by

António Chagas Rosa, take the listener on a ride from dark to humorous, transparent,

complex and aggressive to soothing, with wonderfully unique percussion textures. One of the

most enchanting moments of the album is a melody/countermelody played in what sounds like

a flexatone and steel drum in the middle of the second movement of the first piece. The

quality of the recording provides a sonic atmosphere in which all instruments are distinctly

articulated, well balanced and dynamic. […].

Julie Licata, in Percussive Notes (July, 2017)

Isabel Soveral e António Chagas Rosa - Pas de deux

Label: Portugaler

Format: CD, Album

Country: Portugal

Released: 2010

Genre: Classical

Style: Contemporary

Tracklist:

1/4 - Moh

5/9 - Sept Épigrammes de Platon

10/19 - Cicuta

20 - A Boca

21/24 - Tombeau de Marie Stuart

As Feiticeiras / Les Sorcières, Ensemble Musicatreize (10 mixed voices), Horn,

Trombone, Harp and Percussion.

Label: Actes-Sud

Format: CD, Album

Country: France

Released: 2006

Genre: Classical

Style: Contemporary

Victoire de la Musique in 2007

(Radio France).

About the first performance of this musical tale at Théâtre Les Bernardines, Marseilles:

The poem, by Maria Teresa Horta, introduces us to a sensual world of troubled erotism, made

of witchcraft and darkness. Maria Teresa Horta is a well-known militant for the women’s

rights under Salazar’s regime and remains still very much engaged in this fight. The tale

symbolically recalls the persecutions that tormented the sorceresses. António Chagas Rosa’s

music requires a percussion player, one harpist, one hornist and one trombonist. The

chamber choir of Musicatreize is divided in two groups: the men (personifying the cruel

Inquisitors) and the women, the provocative sorceresses. This tale, which is sung in

Portuguese, is, for the least, puzzling. The first impression is intriguing, certainly due to the

difficulties posed by the text. But the second part is enrapturing. It is like a Sabbath scene,

totally conducted by the women. From the superb Aria of the Sorceress (sung by the

admirable soprano Elise Deuve) until the breathtaking call for Belzebuth and his

appearance, one is taken in a single breath, terrified and enchanted at the same time.

Jérémie Szpierglas, Le Monde de la Musique (May 2006)