Silves’s “House of Luso-Arab and Mediterranean Culture” hosts the OCS for their Autumn Concert on November 19.

The Orquestra Clássica do Sul (OCS) is playing its “Autumn Concert – Slavic Paintings” at Silve’s Casa da Cultura Luso-Árabe e Mediterrânica (House of Luso-Arab and Mediterranean Culture) on November 19, at 18h00. Organised by the Municipality of Silves in partnership with the OCS, the event is free of charge.

“In this autumn concert, in which the days are shorter, we invite you to listen to music from the largest country in the world, where, at this time, the first snowflakes arrive, Russia,” says the OCS on its website. “In contrast to the approaching cold, A. Glazunov gives us the comfort of the warmth of his music – bright, lively and festive. With M. Mussorgsky, we will visit an exhibition of paintings, not to see, but to hear. In the instrumental ensemble version arranged by J. Lickelmann, this is one of his most famous musical compositions, originally written for the piano.”

For further information, contact the Municipality’s Culture department on 282 440 800 / [email protected]

Concert programme:

GLAZUNOV (1865-1936)

Quarteto de Cordas nº 3, Op. 26 “Quarteto Eslavo”

(String quartet no. 3, Op. 26 “Slavic quartet”)

I. Moderato

II. Interlúdio. Moderato

III. Alla mazurka. Allegretto

IV. Uma Festa Eslava. Allegro moderato

MUSSORGSKY(1839 – 1881)

Pictures at an exibition (arr. Lickelmann)

I. Promenade  Introdução – Allegro giusto, nel modo russico, senza allegrezza, ma poco sostenuto.

II. Gnomus – Sempre Vivo.

III. Promenade – Moderato comodo assai e con delicatezza.

IV. Il Vecchio Castello (The old castle) – Andante molto cantabile e con dolore.

V. Promenade – Moderato non tanto, pesante.

VI. Tuileries – Allegretto non troppo, cappricioso.

VII. Bydlo – Sempre moderato, pensante.

VIII. Promenade – Tranquillo.

IX. Ballet des Petits Poussins dans leurs Coques (Ballet of the little chicks in their shells) – Schernizo.

X. Samuel Goldenberg et Schmuyle – Andante grave, energico.

XI. Promenade – Allegro giusto, nel modo russico, poco sostenuto.

XII. Limoges, Le Marché (The Limonges market) – Allegretto vivo, sempre scherzando. AFK.

XIII. Catacombae, Sepulcrum Romanum – Largo.

XIV. Cum Mortuis in Língua Mortua – Andante non troppo, con lamento.

XV. La Cabane de Baba-Yaga sur de Pattes de Poule – Allegro com brio, feroce. Andante mosso. Allegro molto.

XVI. La Grande Porte de Kiev (The great gate of Kiev) – Allegro alla breve. Maestoso. Con grandezza.

Orquestra Clássica do Sul Chamber Music Ensemble

Luis Miguel Garcia, flute

David Fresquet, oboe

Rui Travasso, clarinet

Joaquim Moita, bassoon

Todd Sheldrick, French horn