Orchestral portrait CD released on NAXOS

A new CD dedicated to Vasco Mendonça´s orchestral music will be released in November 2019 by international label NAXOS. This orchestral portrait CD - generously supported by the ROLEX Institute, and co-produced by the Gulbenkian Foundation - will feature American conductor Benjamin Schwartz leading the Gulbenkian Orchestra, French pianist Roger Muraro, and will include the piano concerto STEP RIGHT UP (premiered in June 2018) plus two other orchestral pieces, GROUP TOGETHER, AVOID SPEECH (2012) and UNANSWERABLE LIGHT (2016, rev. 2017)

Watch here a short documentary on the recording sessions