Lopes Graça and Arvo Pärt - masterfully rendered by Miguel Henriques

Musical creation depends of course on the score's author but it is by the graceful and skillful hand of he (or she) whom *translates* said score that one receives the gift of a musical "presence".
It is the performer who provides me (us) - the recipient of the piece
(weather such a recipient be the author, anyone of us, or even him/herself)
with the "Work of Art", in this case a piece of music.

A performer can indeed :

• "make or brake" a work of musical Art (so to speak)
• unveil hidden forms of "reading" a work through his/her rendition, or hide and mask its intrinsic beauty.
• give a comprehensive *translation* of the author's work, or turn it to gibberish.

I thus leave two magnificent musical works of art performed by Miguel Henriques.


Fernando Lopes Graça "Elegy"





Arvo Pärt "Für Alina"