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ALEXANDRE LEVY (1864 -1892)
PIANO WORKS - STUDY AND RECORDINGS
Plaintive and Colin Maillard
In the Levy Collection (https://acervolevy.com/) there is a manuscript of which only pages 10 to 17 are available, which comprises a suite, with three of its four parts: II Plaintive; III Colin Maillard; IV Vieille Legend. The first piece has not been found and the last one is incomplete, although well developed. Musicologist Arnaldo Senise gives the date of 1885 for the composition.
A second manuscript of the piece Plaintive was also found, signed by the copyist Bórtoli. Plaintive, a French word with the same spelling and meaning in English, has as its main feature a descending 2nd minor motif, with a punctuated rhythm and a pleading character. The harmony is extremely chromatic, unusual in Levy's other pieces. Plaintive can be compared to Grieg's Lyric Pieces.
Colin Maillard in French designates the game known in Brazil as cabra-cega. It can be conjectured that the idea of this game is present in the piece through a contrapuntal writing in which the composer repeatedly uses the resource of imitation in different voices. Colin Maillard's style is close to Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words or Schumann's short pieces. The recording made for this project is the first known of this work.
Felipe Balieiro
Felipe Balieiro began his musical training at the age of 5, at the Fundação das Artes de São Caetano do Sul. At University of São Paulo, Felipe was supervised by Eduardo Monteiro. It was also during this period that his interest was aroused in the chamber music repertoire, especially in collaborating with singers. In the meantime, he began training as a singer under the guidance of Francisco Campos, faculty of the same university. He is currently a chorister of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Choir in Berlin in the tenor section.
Mariana Rodrigues
Mariana Rodrigues is a member of Brazú Quintê, a group whose first album was released by Edital PROAC in 2018. She performed at the Jazz a la Calle Festival in Uruguay and was a finalist for the Samsung E-Festival Award. In 2020, the group participated in the album Canções para Iluminar o mundo (Songs to light up the world) by singer Manu Cavalaro and teamed up with Vanessa Moreno and Breno Ruiz. Mariana participated in several festivals and contests, such as the Leo Brower Festival, I Villa-Lobos International Symposium, the Meetings with the Composer Series held by MIS (Sound and Image Museum). She also gave the first performance of the piece Invocações by composer Adriana Norat, in the series of chamber concert promoted by Espaço Itau Cultural. She performed as a soloist with the UNICAMP Symphony Orchestra, USP Chamber Orchestra, 9th International Cello Encounter Orchestra and Youth Orchestras of Guarulhos and Tatuí. Mariana began her musical training at the Conservatory of Tatuí and completed her bachelor's degree in piano from the University of São Paulo.
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