Pedro Faria Gomes ‘Chamber Works’ CD launch

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Much of the music of Portuguese composer Pedro Faria Gomes inhabits seeming contradictions and paradoxes: a longing to return that accepts the inevitability of change; abstract processes that conjure vivid and concrete images; a profound stillness marked often by fleet and rapid surface motion; and a nostalgia that resists sentimentality. The chamber works featured this evening, from the decade 2009–18, explore such themes as memory, cyclicity, returning, waiting, and the quiet spaces and distorted perspectives of night. The concert celebrates the launch on the Naxos label of a CD recording by tonight’s performers, which includes all the works on the programme.