Isabel Soveral & António Chagas Rosa Pas de Deux
Preface. Two different aesthetic universes, two histories of Music, two genealogical families.
And an unmistakable meeting of sensibilities – unpredictable, previleged.
In Isabel Soveral we follow the latent driving path starting in Vienna and Darmstadt and from there to the great works of Jorge Peixinho and Emanuel Nunes. Structuralism in all its splendour.
In António Chagas Rosa we travel a paralel voyage through the history of the 20th century, looking for an early Schönberg, less connected to the dodecaphonic asceticism of the twenties than to the sumptuous decadence of expressionist cabaret of Pierrot times. Less Vienna than Berlin – Schönberg but also the Weills and Brechts of the thirties, and the inevitable American exile and the adventurous reinvention of the musical comedy. All this converges and filters into an eminently dramatic language, admittedly expressive.
Two histories of Music, two genealogical families, two languages and, between them, the depth of the meeting, fascinating, unpredictable: in the music of Chagas Rosa, the use of figures that, through composition, dissolve in purely abstract shapes and gestures; in Isabel Soveral’s music we find almost the inverse movement, an abstract gesture that, through composition, produces clearly defined figures and shapes, that we grasp and identify.
Two languages and, spontaneously on the vertigo of chance, the meeting of two artists that, through crossed straits, re-link the dispersed wires of an history, after all, shared. Unpredictable. Fascinating.
Pedro Amaral, January 2010.
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António Chagas Rosa talks about Pas de Deux.
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