C Gomes - Opera Overtures and Preludes
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Label: Naxos
Cat No: 8574409
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 24th March 2023
Contents
Works
A noite do casteloArtists
Minas Gerais Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Fabio MechettiWorks
A noite do casteloArtists
Minas Gerais Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Fabio MechettiAbout
This is Volume 14 in Naxos’s The Music of Brazil series. These are also the first recordings of the overtures and preludes of Gomes to be made available for an international audience.
Fabio Mechetti has been artistic director and principal conductor of the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra since its foundation. Under his leadership, the orchestra has received numerous awards, recorded nine albums, including several for Naxos, and undertaken a tour of South America. In 2014, he became the first Brazilian music director of an Asian orchestra when he was appointed principal conductor of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. In the US, Mechetti conducted the Jacksonville Symphony for 14 years and is now its conductor emeritus.
Fabio Mechetti and the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra are leading figures in the Naxos ‘Music of Brazil’ series – in 2008, Mechetti became the founding music director and principal conductor of the orchestra.
The Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra has received numerous awards and accolades, including CONCERTO magazine’s Grand Prize (2015, 2020), the Carlos Gomes Award for the best Brazilian Orchestra (2012), and being named classical music ensemble of the year (2010) by the Săo Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA).
Together conductor and orchestra have recorded the music of Pedro I which can be heard on 8574404: ‘The sure orchestral direction of Fabio Mechetti …provide a triumphant demonstration of how far understanding of the performance of repertoire from the 18th century in Brazil has come over the past few decades, and the recorded sound, captured at the Sala Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, is exemplary’ (Gramophone).
They have also recorded Almeida Prado on 8574225 which was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2020 (Best Classical Album category): ‘The Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra, under the expert direction of Fabio Mechetti, provides a wellconsidered and exemplary accompaniment. The recorded sound is very good’ (Fanfare).
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