VASQUES-DIAS, A.: Lume de Chão / LOPES-GRAÇA, F.: Viagens na Minha Terra (Travels in My Homeland: Portuguese Piano Music) (Gama)
Fernando Lopes-Graça and Amílcar Vasques-Dias are linked in their musical reflections on Portuguese identity, but at widely differing points in that country’s history. Lopes-Graça transformed traditional songs into poetic and hard-edged statements, helping to create a ‘national collective spirit’ that would not be bowed by dictatorship. Vasques-Dias’s approach to folk culture is based on more personal feelings and emotions, recalling the countryside of his childhood and its landscapes today.
Tracklist
| 14 | I. Procissão de Penitência em São Gens de Calvos (Penitence Procession in São Gens de Calvos) | 02:45 |
| 16 | III. Noutros tempos, a Figueira da Foz dançava o Lundum (In the olden days, Figueira da Foz danced the Lundum) | 01:58 |
| 19 | VI. Em Ourique do Alentejo, durante o São João (In Ourique do Alentejo, during the St. John Festivities) | 02:45 |
| 21 | VIII. Em São Miguel d'Acha, durante as trovoadas, mulheres e homens cantam o bendito (In São Miguel d'Acha, during the storms, women and men sing the Bendito) | 01:55 |
| 24 | XI. Em Silves, já não há moiras encantadas (In Silves, there are no more enchanted moorish maidens) | 01:03 |
| 26 | XIII. Em Pegarinhos, uma velhinha canta uma antiga canção de roca (In Pegarinhos, an old woman sings an ancient spinning song) | 01:13 |
| 32 | XIX. Os adufes troam na romaria da Senhora da Póvoa de Val-de-Lobo (The adufes rumble at the pilgrimage of Senhora da Póvoa of Val-de-Lobo) | 01:33 |





























