This splendid image is from the 'Alma Brasileira', the Villa-Lobos story by Francois Laurent in the November 2009 issue of magazine (p. I don't remember seeing this picture before, though it certainly evokes one side of Villa's personality.

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Laurent knows the Villa-Lobos discography really, really well. His 'indispensable' picks on CD:. Villa-Lobos par lui-meme. The Cuarteto Latinoamericano complete String Quartets. The BIS.

Anna Stella Schic's complete piano music. Carl St. Clair's complete Symphonies on cpo. Robert Bonfiglio is an amazing advocate for Villa-Lobos; he's performed the Harmonica Concerto around the world many, many times. You can listen to all three movements of this work at YouTube, taken from a live concert with the Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi. The, the, and the third movement, with pictures from Bonfiglio's September 2009 visit to the famous Manaus Opera House, is below:Robert has a couple of performances of the Harmonica Concerto coming up in the New Year: with the the Galicia Symphony, conducted by Enrique Diemecke, on January 4th; and with the Rockford Symphony, conducted by Steven Larsen, on January 16th.

In their book, Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour and Thomas George Caracas Garcia discuss the influence of Chopin on the guitar etudes.To some degree, his guitar works also pay homage to Chopin, whose piano etudes were clearly the model for Villa-Lobos's estudos for guitar. These are true concert etudes for the guitar and, like the Chopin works, are meant for the stage; they are not limited to the status of mere pedagogical tools. Villa-Lobos's Estudos also represent an attempt, consciously or subconsiously, to legitimate the guitar as a concert instrument and raise it to the level of the piano. 189The Serbian pianist Julija Bal has arranged a number of the etudes for piano, and I think they sound really well on the instrument. You can listen to them at.By the way, Jose Vieira Brandao adapted the five guitar preludes for piano. Sonia Rubinsky plays them on of her complete Naxos series of Villa-Lobos piano music.

Tributes to Villa-Lobos on the 50th Anniversary of his death have come from visual as well as musical artists. One example is the at the UN. And there are some great new caricatures of Villa-Lobos ( and ), who has been the subject of as many clever but good-natured caricatures as any famous composer I know of.This project by artist Manu Maltez looks really cool. Maltez drew the cover of Projeto B's new CD.

That image of a driven composer is only part of a sixty-page book of a an imagined trip by Villa-Lobos through Rio de Janeiro. Includes a number of arresting images from this project. They're a bit of a challenge coming after the jolly caricatures of a kindly and self-possessed celebrity.Here's a bit of Google-translated commentary from Maltez's blog:Presence is what is the person after it has gone.

I wanted to draw this atmosphere. One of the things I like most about this art thing is that we can suggest both without having to confirm anything.Guess who's charuto?Rio was Villa's city, and it's the city of Maltez.I took the guy to walk through my city just to see what was left.Us. Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Villa-Lobos: November 17, 1959.

Free download musik kuda kepang johor. Villa-Lobos lovers are celebrating his music with special concerts, conferences, and exhibitions: in Rio, Sao Paulo, New York, Luxembourg, and Paris. But in Brazil the date is being especially remembered, and not just in the classical music press. The newspaper page above, featuring a great by Baptistao, is from yesterday's O Estado de Sao Paulo (November 16, 2009). And below is a page from today's edition (November 17, 2009) of O Globo in Rio de Janeiro. ' Le Week-end Villa-Lobos' is project of Radio France: three concerts in mid-December 2009 which feature the music of Villa-Lobos.Le Week-end begins on, with a concert of the Orchestre National de France.

Featured works include the first suite of the Descobrimento do Brasil and the second Cello Concerto with the great Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses.The second concert, on, again features Meneses, this time with another stand-out Brazilian instrumentalist: pianist Cristina Ortiz. Finally, on, the mini-festival ends with a concert by the Percussions de l'Orchestre National de France.Villa-Lobos had a special feeling for the city of Paris.

He lived there for long periods in the 1920s and the 1950s. He did some of his best conducting, and certainly his best recording, in the Radio France studios.

I'm hoping that Radio France Musique eventually broadcasts all three of these concerts. If they do, I'll post the information here, and I'll be listening on my great.

There are so many American jazz musicians with a special relationship to the music of Villa-Lobos. Saxophonists like Branford Marsalis and Steve Wilson, have crossed over to the classical side to perform the Fantasia for Saxophone and Orchestra. Others, beginning famously with Gil Evans' version of BB#2 on Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain, have used Villa-Lobos as source material for jazz compositions. An important project from earlier this year was Robert Irving III's Sketches of Brazil. Both were discussed in, back in July 2009.

One of the most important projects from the past is 2003's by Wayne Shorter.Here's another new project with a really strong Villa-Lobos pedigree. Is designed as an homage to the composer on the 50th anniversary of his death in 1959, as well as to Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain from the same year. The Steve Griggs Ensemble is based in Seattle, and they will perform Griggs' work there on November 19th. The on Griggs' website includes MP3 versions of computer renditions of his arrangements. Here's one of my favourites, 'Xo Xo Passarinho' from Cirandas:I'm impressed with what I've heard, but wish I could be at this performance. I hope it makes its way onto disc as well. Later this month the United Nations will be the scene of a new exhibition 'Tribute to Villa-Lobos', featuring paintings by Brazilian artists.

One of the featured artists will be the Bahia-born, whose room with piano is pictured above. Others include Alexandre Emmanuel, Artur Moreira, Cassia Maia, Flory Menezes, Cila Santos, Ed Ribeiro, Arlete Costa, Luciano Lima Lima, Arnaldo Garcez, Astride Rosa, Junia d’Affonseca, Deborah Costa, Isabel Amaro, Ricardo Nascimento, Iris Alvares, Sandra Romano, Maria Antonia, D. Finotto, Shizue, Laila Guimaraes, Lucia Tolentino, Gzanotti, Ce Granito. Institute Dirson Costa de Arte e Cultura Amazonicas: Indigenous Brazilians from the Amazon Duhigo, Dhiani Pa’saro, Sanipa, Too Xacwa, Yupury, Tchanpan, and Kawena.The opening reception for the exhibit begins at 6:00 p.m. On October 30th, and will feature a concert by soprano Caroline Braga, tenor Denis Hurtado, guitarist Daniel Duarte, and pianist Livia Sandoval. More information is at the.Thanks to artist Ed Ribeiro whose tweet put me on to this.

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I wrote about the interesting instruments included in the score of Villa's great early masterpiece Amazonas. Since then I've come across conductor Roberto Duarte's interesting book., which is a detailed description of the scores of important orchestral works.Duarte's book includes some interesting pictures of two instruments that he actually used in his for Marco Polo in 1990. Here is the Violinophone:and the Viola d'amore:It's great that this important disc is once again in print.

I'm listening to Amazonas right now at the Naxos Music Library: what an amazing work! The were announced in Los Angeles this morning.

Congratulations to Sonia Rubinsky and the great people at Naxos for a well-deserved nomination. There are two classical categories:. Best Album, which includes Rubinsky's disc; and. Best Classical Contemporary Composition, which this year includes Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Clarice Assad, Gabriela Lena Frank, Roberto Sierra, and Alfonso Fuentes, the 8th and final one in her monumental series of Villa-Lobos's Piano Music, is worthy of an award not only for the series, but on its own. It includes some very important but under-played works.

Rubinsky's recordings have helped to bring this music to a much wider audience; and hopefully to a new generation of pianists. She has helped to raise Villa's reputation as a composer, in the same way that people like Carl St. Clair, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Roberto Minczuk, and John Neschling have done in the past ten years. Why bother building your Villa-Lobos CD library one disc at a time? In the past few months BIS and Dorian have released the complete Choros, Bachianas Brasileiras, and String Quartets in inexpensive box sets.

Now comes this new on 7 CDs.This is the final piece in the begun by conductor Carl St. Clair in 1997. Most of the symphonies, and many of the smaller orchestral works, were either world premieres on record, or were the first recordings outside of obscure Brasilian LPs. The orchestral playing of the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir received high marks from critics over the years, as did St.

Clair's preparation (from sometimes incomplete or corrupted scores and parts) and conducting. The recording and presentation from cpo also was very warmly received. The is the first place I've seen this posted on the web; the discs are due to be released on September 21, 2009. At €39.99 (about $60), this set is a major bargain! Here's a CD back in July, when it showed up in the Naxos Music Library. Now that I've had a chance to listen more closely to it, I'm posting a fuller review here.Heitor Villa-Lobos looms large in Brazil, and not just in the classical music world.

In Brazilian popular music, jazz, and popular culture, and especially in this Ano Villa-Lobos (the 50th anniversary of his death), Villa-Lobos is everywhere. This makes it hard for the composers of Villa's generation, and those who followed him, to get noticed.

This disc is a welcome introduction to some names that might not be well known to music lovers. Perhaps the new interest in Villa-Lobos in Brazil and around the world will be the tide that raises all boats.The one fairly well-known work in this chronologically organized CD is Villa-Lobos's Quinteto em forma de Choros, written in 1928.

It's a masterpiece, closely related to the Choros series that many (including myself) believe constitutes Villa's greatest achievement.Luciano Gallet's Turuna for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, & Percussion is from 1926, and it's a real find. The work reflects Gallet's expertise in Brazilian folklore and popular music. It has the same fresh sound of the urban serenaders known as Choroes that permeates Villa-Lobos's music of the 1920s. The music really swings.

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But the Turuna shares with the Quinteto and the following work, Camargo Guarnieri's Two Songs for Flute and Voice, a sophisticated, modernist voice that relates to Villa-Lobos's strongest influences: Stravinsky, Debussy, and the many composers Villa met in Paris. You can hear in both the Gallet and Guarnieri, for example, the flute and clarinet sounds of Choros #02 of 1924.

These works show that the international modernist style of Paris had found fertile ground in Brazil.Francisco Mignone, who worked in both the nationalist and modernist styles and even flirted with serialism in the 1950s, wrote the Five Songs for Voice & Bassoon relatively late in a very long and productive career. The songs look back to the 1920s, and earlier, to the salon music of the late nineteenth century. There are few composers who write better for the bassoon - bassoonists should take up these songs in the same way they have adopted the witty Waltzes for Solo Bassoon.Claudio Santoro's Mini Concerto Grosso is a gorgeous piece. It's a stylized work that looks back on neo-classicism in the same way that neo-classicism looked back on earlier music. It looks back to the new Brazilian style that Villa-Lobos took up in the 1930s. Santoro, like Mignone, had gone through a variety of styles (he shared a teacher, Hans Joachim Koellreutter, with Antonio Carlos Jobim, and also studied with Nadia Boulanger).

Ronaldo Miranda's Variations also look back to an earlier period in Brazilian music: to a much-loved song by Anacleto de Medeiros, whose choros and schottisches from the turn of the century had a major influence on Brazilian popular music and art music alike.Joao Guilherme Ripper was born in the year that Villa-Lobos died, and his star has risen very high in the last few years, with major triumphs in choral music and opera. Matinas, from 1996, is another strong work to close this enjoyable and illuminating programme from the very capable musicians of the Deutschen Oper Berlin. Violinist Gil Morgenstern presents a fascinating concert in his Reflections series: ', on October 18th at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. This is a typical high-concept presentation for Morgenstern, who is accompanied by pianist Donald Berman, and one that I would dearly love to attend:The mandala is used in many religious traditions as an artistic aid for meditation to advance practitioners toward a state of enlightenment.

A Musical Mandala takes the music of Johann Sebastian Bach as its starting point and circles through works by Schumann, Ysaye, Bartok, Barkauskas, Villa-Lobos, and Kreisler. Join us as we meditate on Bach's enormous influence on enlightened composers and audiences over a period of more than 300 years.The Reflections series then goes on the road, to the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach on November 18, to North Carolina and Pennsylvania, and to Florence, Capri, and Rome, Italy.Maybe I'll catch the concert in Capri.