MUSICAR is a Metropolitana project supported by MusicAIRE, an action co-financed by the European Union to support the music industry. Launched in February 2023, it aimed to contribute over 10 months to grant full access to the arts for people who are blind or have low vision as well as deaf people, by promoting the teaching of music theory and ensemble music practice. With an exploratory character, it tested teaching and learning methods in training actions for teachers, instrumental workshops and theoretical classes. Everything culminates in this Final Concert, where two musicians who inspire good practice are invited. Conductor Adrian Rincón and pianist Jorge Gonçalves perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, respectively, with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra. They are joined by the Mãos Que Cantam Choir, the musicians of the Enarmonia Philharmonic and all the participants of the project.

Programme

Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Soloist: Jorge Gonçalves
Conductor: Pedro Neves
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano and Orchestra Concerto No. 3, in C minor, Op. 37 (1800)
I. Allegro con brio
II. Largo
III. Rondo: Allegro

Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Conductor: Adrian Rincón
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 29, in A major, KV 201 (1774)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante
III. Minuetto
IV. Allegro con spirito

Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Participatory Choirs of the MUSICAR Project
Conductor: Adrian Rincón
Giuseppe Verdi, «Va, pensiero», chorus of the third act of the opera Nabucco, Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (1842; arrangement by Lino Guerreiro)

Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Participatory Choirs and Bass Ensemble of the MUSICAR Project
Conductor: Adrian Rincón
Lino Guerreiro, Musicar (absolute première)*

* Text: Creative paraphrase of the poem «Os Cinco Sentidos» by Almeida Garrett (Rui Campos Leitão and Rui Magno Pinto).