NUM 1109

Title: Chamber Music (triple CD)

Artists: various

Composer: António Victorino D’Almeida

Notes from the Author

I dedicate these three CD’s to my Father, who had the chance to listen to a few of them in his life.

I own him all of good in me- and also the unwholesome part of me I could get read of.

Meanwhile, there are many persons whose friendship and work this sample of my chamber music owns its materialization.

Obviously, I name the music players who had done it, the copyists who copied it, the technicians who recorded it and the Recorder, personally to Fernando Augusto Rocha, my dear friend and dedicated collaborator.

Without his precious help and participation, all these would still be alive only inside a drawer, keeping company to so many more…

I want to thank specially to the ex-Minister of Culture in Portugal, Dr. Manuel Maria Carrilho, who had disposable the sum that turned those handmade works computerized, and from there on- and only after that moment- it could be read and interpretated by the interpreters.

I also want to express my gratitude to this fiction character – named Coronel Bombarda…- that I strangely helped creating in a television show who repaid me in return in such a way that almost all of the recording and setting work could be done.

And not another word I shall say about this personage, for I believe everyone understands the message that I am longing to say…

Anyway, all this ends with another dedication to four real personages, to whom, at each and its own exceptional way – always at the moment I needed the most – where there in a inestimable manner for the fulfilment of this work:

To my wife, Sybil, Bárbara Guimarães, Maria do Céu Guerra and Madalena Garcia Reis.

In the account of the pieces, the selection did not relied on a particular preference – for there are many other works I would love to turn into life, away from the shadiest drawer- but yet to the circumstances of the moment, especially the dispensability of the music players, the studios and the copies…

I limited myself then to give some kind of a reasons’ glimpse that terminated each of those compositions.

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