A list of compositions by Luís Carvalho follows. Further information about the individual works will become available as this page will be regularly updated. It’s also possible to contact the author to obtain scores or further information about the pieces.

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detailed info about each piece.

NB: Titles in grey refer to works in progress
(in process revision and/or conclusion).
Such pieces will become available shortly.

SOLO INSTRUMENTS:

• Hornpipe – solo horn (1997/rev.1999)
  
  
• Chirimia – solo oboe (2001/…)

• Suite in Jazz Style – clarinet quartet (1992/1993/1999/rev.2000)

• Suite in Jazz Style – alternative version for double-reed quartet [*2ob.(2ndalso English horn), 2fag.] (2001/…)

• (Quarteto) – clarinet quartet (1992/1993) [withdrawn]

• Trois Pièces d’Hommage – A-clarinet (or oboe) & piano (1993/1994/1997/rev.1998)

• Efémera I – clarinet & percussion duet (1994)

• Terzetto – 3 Bb trumpets or 2 trumpets Bb & horn (1995/1996/1998/rev.2001/...)

• Variazioni in modo quasi clasico – flute & clarinet duet, playing 6 instruments: piccolo, C-flute, alto-flute in G/ Eb-clarinet, Bb-clarinet, bass-clarinet (1996/…)

• Quinteto – wind quintet [fl./picc.; ob./Eng.horn; clar.(Bb&A); hr.; fag.] (1998/rev.2000/new rev.2003)

• 4 Laços da Dança dos Paulitos (Hommage à F. Lopes-Graça) – clarinet quartet [Eb/Bb/A/bass] (1996/1997/rev.2000)

• 4 Laços da Dança dos Paulitos (Hommage à F. Lopes-Graça) – alternative version for wind quintet (2001/…) [fl./fl.alto, ob./Eng.horn, clar. Eb/Bb, hr./tuba wagneriana, fag./c.fag.]

• Sax-suite – saxophone quartet (1997-2000, final version: 2005)

SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA; CHAMBER ORCHESTRA; WIND ORCHESTRA:

• Serenade vox populis – chamber orchestra (2001/2003):
  (*2*22*2-altosax.-2200-timp.-strings)
  detailed info about orchestration:
  2fl. (doubling 2picc.)/ 2ob. (2nd.doubling english horn)/ 2clar. in A/ 2fag. (2nd.doubling contrebasson)/ 1alto-sax. (doubling soprano-sax.)/ 2hr./ 2trp.in C/ timp./ strings (min.66442)

ARRANGMENTS; ORCHESTRATIONS:

• La Boda de Luiz Alonso (Zarzuela por Giménez) – arranged for clarinet ensemble

• Somewhere (from “West Side Story” - L. Bernstein) – arranged for clarinet ensemble, with or without vocals

• Granada (by Agustin Lara) – arranged for clarinet ensemble, with or without vocals

• Cidade Invicta (March dedicated to the city of Porto) – arranged for clarinet ensemble [originally conceived as opening piece of the “I International Clarinet Congress of Porto (CLAMEEOPORTO) in a concert by the “Orquestra Invicta de Clarinetes” – May/1997]

• Musica Ricercata (11 Bagetelles) (original for piano [1951-53] by G. Ligeti) – orchestration for 12 winds (2002/2003):
  [2fl./ 2ob./ 2clar.(Bb&A)/ 2fag./ 2hr./ 2trp.]

• Arco-Íris (popular fantasy by Duarte Ferreira Pestana, original for wind band) – re-instrumentation for symphonic orchestra (1997):
  (*2*2*32-3sax.(2alto+1tenor)-4331-timp.+3perc.-strings)
  detailed info about orchestration:
  2fl. (doubling 2picc.)/ 2ob. (2 nd.doubling english horn)/ 2clar. in B b / bass-clarinet/ 2fag./ 2alto-sax./ 1 tenor-sax./ 4hr./ 3trp.in C/ 3 trbn./ tuba/ timp./ 3 perc./ strings

• Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (by M. Ravel, originally for piano solo [1911], orchestrated by Ravel himself for symphony orchestra [1912])
  orchestral reduction for chamber ensemble (2004/...)
  por Luís Carvalho
  (1111-sax.-1110-2perc.-piano-strings:11111)

• Concert No.1 for clarinet and orchestra, in G-min.
  author: José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842)
  critical revision & orchestral reduction for piano by
  Luís Carvalho (2005-6)
  [within the scope of the Masters degree in Performance by the University of Aveiro]
  
  
• Concert No.2 for clarinet and orchestra, in Bb-Maj.
  author: José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842)
  critical revision & orchestral reduction for piano by
  Luís Carvalho (2005-6)
  [within the scope of the Masters degree in Performance by the University of Aveiro]
  
  
• Concert No.3 for clarinet and orchestra, in Eb-Maj.
  author: José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842)
  critical revision & orchestral reduction for piano by
  Luís Carvalho (2005-6)
  [within the scope of the Masters degree in Performance by the University of Aveiro]
  
  
• Concert No.4 for clarinet and orchestra, in D-min.
  author: José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842)
  critical revision & orchestral reduction for piano by
  Luís Carvalho (2005-6)
  [within the scope of the Masters degree in Performance by the University of Aveiro]

• Cadenza to G. Rossini’s “Introduction, theme & variations” (1999)

• Cadenza to Malcolm Arnold’s “Clarinet Concerto no. 2
  op. 115” (2003)
  
  
• Cadenza to Canongia’s “Clarinet Concerto No.1,
  in G-min.” (2006)
  
  

• Arnold Schoenberg – reflection on his aesthetics (in Portuguese).
  
  
• Joly Braga Santos (1924/1988) – a Portuguese symphonist
  [the 5th symphony op.39 «VIRTUS LUSITANAE» (1966) as the paradigm of the composer’s symphonic output] (in Portuguese).
  
  
• José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842): virtuoso & composer
  Masters thesis (Md) presented to the University of Aveiro (2006).