ABOUT THIS ALBUM
Catalogue No.: AZ1029
UPC: 3618113585672
Total Playing Time: 43:00
Release Date: July 2026
Composer(s): Alexandre Rey Colaço, Eduardo Burnay
Artist(s): Nuno Marques
PENNAS D’AMOR
Fados for Piano
Nuno Marques
In Pennas D’Amor, pianist Nuno Marques offers a rare and illuminating journey through Portugal’s musical soul. This recording unveils Alexandre Rey Colaço’s complete Nine Fados for Piano and Eduardo Burnay’s Fado Burnay—two long-overlooked gems that bridge fado’s vocal origins with refined pianistic art. The piano works are presented alongside poems published with Colaço’s scores, restoring the dialogue between verse and music. With sensitivity and personal depth, Marques captures the poetry, melancholy, and saudade of these works, reviving their expressive beauty for modern audiences and reaffirming fado as a living tradition both in café and concert hall.
ALEXANDRE REY COLAÇO (1854-1928)
1
O Pobre Pede a Riqueza – The Poor Man Pleads for Fortune
00:33
2
Um Fado – A Fado
05:45
3
Lograssem Águas Passadas – If Only Waters Once Passed
00:25
4
Canção das Serras – Song of the Mountains
03:22
5
Nossa Senhora Faz Meia – Our Lady Knitting Socks
00:16
6
Fado Hylario
03:54
7
Sobrancelhas Como As Tuas – Brows Like Yours
00:09
8
Fado Corrido – Fast Fado
04:57
9
O Pintasilgo Tem Pennas – The Goldfinch’s Feathers
00:14
10
Fado Pintasilgo
03:19
11
Acorda Minha Thereza – Wake, My Thereza
00:30
12
Fado No. 6
04:31
13
Tenho Fome Não De Pão – I Hunger Not for Bread
00:17
14
Fado No. 7
01:04
15
Fado No. 8
03:56
16
Com As Lágrimas Fiz Contas – With Tears I Counted
00:22
17
Fado Choradinho – Little Crying Fado
05:02
EDUARDO BURNAY (1877-1926)
18
Fado Burnay
04:18
19
Tenho Dito – I Have Spoken
00:03
REVIEW
'Between the poetry and Colaço’s music, Fado as you think you know it becomes something quite different. There are few recordings of Colaço’s Fado cycle, and this is a welcome addition to the Fado world. By making the poetry and the music live together, the genre takes on a new life. Instead of being a passive observer of a staged café show, you can read and understand the meaning(s) in the poetry and hear that in the music. A long-awaited performance of both words and music.'
- Interlude Magazine Read the full review
Nuno Miguel Marques, acclaimed Portuguese pianist and Yamaha Artist, has built an accomplished international career from his base in New York City. A versatile musician, his artistry extends effortlessly across solo and chamber performance, teaching, and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
As a soloist, Marques has appeared with orchestras around the world and recorded for Antena2 Radio Portugal and Centro Atlântico. A founding member of several prizewinning chamber ensembles, he is also deeply committed to contemporary music—commissioning, editing, and premiering numerous works for solo piano and ensemble, and collaborating with leading new music groups.
In 2016, Marques founded Porto Pianofest, an international piano festival held annually in his native Portugal. Under his artistic direction, the festival has quickly gained international recognition, expanding its activities to New York City, Washington, D.C., Madrid, and Paris.
Marques has performed at many of the world’s major concert halls and festivals across Europe, Asia, and the United States. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree from Rutgers University, where he studied with Min Kwon. He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, where he studied with Artur Pizarro, and earned his Master’s degree from the Royal College of Music under Niel Immelmann. He also attended New York University with José Ramón Méndez as a recipient of the prestigious Reinhold Scholarship.
Based in New York, Marques is a pianist for the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), America’s national dance company, and a guest pianist with the New York City Ballet. He also serves as Music Director of Stars of American Ballet, touring extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
Beyond the stage, Nuno Marques is passionate about travel, literature, and photography.