Duo was influenced by the poetry of Fernando Pessoa, the quintessential modernist of Portugal, and by an extended visit to the city of Lisbon, his source of inspiration.
Brief sentences play variations on the theme as they concur, argue and overlap.
Once in a while, like in a daydream, the music takes off briefly in the direction of jazzy latino moods. Also, two fleeting moments from a piano piece by Mendes dedicated to his wife surface toward the end of the piece. And From Almost Yesterday. Yehuda Yannay was born in Romania and emigrated to Israel in 1951. Musik in Stuttgart and Hamburg.