Eduardo M. Ribas : Gloria , polka for piano

I would probably never have encountered this piece but for a YouTube viewer kindly sending it to me. Eduardo Medina Ribas (1822-83) was a member of a musical dynasty from Porto in Portugal. He actually made his name as an operatic baritone, and was active in Portugal, Spain and Brazil, where he eventually settled and died. I believe that there are only four surviving compositions by him, of which this piece -published in Rio de Janeiro around 1871 - is the most well-known. For whatever reason, Ribas moves from Ab major to E major and C major for the trio - extremely remote keys! In preparing this performance, I had to make an executive decision on how much of the polka to recapitulate between the trio and the coda, as the score is not clear on that point.
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Played by Phillip Sear
http://www.psear.co.uk

Category:

Music

Tags:

• piano
• clássico
• Português
• Brasileira
• salon

[thrippleton]

I find this piece typical of the sort of music my teacher would give me years ago.

Lovely piece,well played.

[PSearPianist]

@thrippleton Thank you. Alas none of my teachers gave me this type of music - I had to find it for myself in dusty second-hand book stores!

[soffiethetoffee]

really, really pretty.

[PSearPianist]

It is an attractive piece!

[thrippleton]

I'm still rummaging the bookshops and have found some great stuff over the years.

Probably like yourself, I have a mountain of music filling up the computer room.

Many happy hours are still whiled away at the piano.

It's a never ending joy,you will no doubt agree.