{"id":8227,"date":"2022-02-09T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radamesgnattali.com.br\/a-word-about-radames\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T13:24:37","slug":"a-word-about-radames","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/radamesgnattali.com.br\/en\/a-word-about-radames\/","title":{"rendered":"About Radam\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cI enjoyed writing music, copying orchestration scores. I used to copy all his work. If he would take a little longer to come out with news one, I would ask him: \u201cthat\u2019s it, nothing else? \u201c He was ashamed because I refused to be paid. So, eventually he would send me a cute little present.<\/p>

He\u2019s got a natural virtuosity. I don\u2019t remember him making any mistake. It was pure natural technique. He did not study hard. He was so lazy! He used to say he\u2019d chosen music as a career because it was the easiest one for him. So he would definitely not study the whole morning if he could have something done in half an hour.<\/p>

The first time I went to the National Radio we performed one of his arrangements for two pianos. It was called Dialogando. He enjoyed very much, so he started composing for two pianos<\/em> and therefore we have played a lot together.<\/p>

I started to play with him only after my mother’s death, in [Sexteto Radam\u00e9s Gnattali] <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We started as a duet and then he formed the Sextet and I joined the group as the second pianist. The Sextet has toured in Europe in 1960. We\u2019ve been in Portugal, France, England, Germany and Italy. We were enthusiastically welcome, especially in Portugal. Greeted and spoiled. Edu da Gaita had gone with us and he performed the Concerto para Harm\u00f4nica e Orquestra (Concert for harmonica and orchestra<\/em>) that Radam\u00e9s dedicated to him. It was a great success. Then we had other concerts, where Radam\u00e9s and I played the Quatro movimentos dan\u00e7antes<\/em> para dois pianos (Four dancing movements for two pianos), also known as Su\u00edte coreogr\u00e1fica<\/em> (Choreographic suite). That is a hard but very good one. It has a few measures that I could never do as Radam\u00e9s did. He would show me what he wanted me to do, [A\u00edda solfeja] I would do it exactly the same, vigorously, but it did not sound the same. I guess his hands were special. I tried my best, but it was never the same!<\/p>

We had a long stay in Portugal, about twenty days. Then, it was Paris. We went to London. I enjoyed it better than Paris. Then, we went to Italy. I was overwhelmed to step on the old Italy, my father\u2019s land. We did great in Italy. We have made a great concert at the RAI (Italian television) and then we came back to Brazil. They couldn\u2019t believe it![os europeus] The Sextet playing an arrangement of Aquarela do Brasil<\/em> just sounded as a complete orchestra, being only the six of us! The Italian maestro was amazingly surprised.<\/p>

After we came back to Rio, it did not last much longer. I retired. I guess it has lasted for around ten years on the whole. [A\u00edda has left the Sextet in 1965].
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(Extracts of interview granted by A\u00edda Gnattali , Radam\u00e9s\u2019 sister, pianist and piano professor, when she was\u00a0 92 years old, registration and transcription\u00a0 by Maria Clara Wasserman, in her apartment,\u00a0 Humait\u00e1, February, 2003)<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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