Gulbenkian Orchestra/Shwartz - Vasco Mendonca: Step Right Up, Group Together, Avoid Speech, Unanswerable Light

Portuguese composer Vasco Mendon�a regards this portrait album as a letter to himself � written over time and with different chapters that throw light on his long-standing obsessions with drama, ritual and precision mechanism. Group Together, Avoid Speech highlights the string and woodwind principals of the wonderful Gulbenkian Orchestra to create �a Baroque concerto grosso on steroids�, while Unanswerable Light is a memorial to a friend and a meditation on fury and loss. The piano concerto Step Right Up is �a ritual celebration between the most incredible music box � the orchestra � and the most beautiful sound machine � the piano.�