Villa-Lobos - Choros Vol.2 | BIS BISCD1450

Villa-Lobos - Choros Vol.2

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1450

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th June 2008

Contents

Artists

Fabio Zanon (guitar)
Dante Yenque (horn)
Ozeas Arantes (horn)
Samuel Hamzem (horn)
Darrin Coleman Milling (bass trombone)
Linda Bustani (piano)
Ilan Rechtman (piano)
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

John Neschling

Works

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Choros no.1
Choros no.4 for 3 horns and trombone
Choros no.6 for orchestra
Choros no.8
Choros no.9

Artists

Fabio Zanon (guitar)
Dante Yenque (horn)
Ozeas Arantes (horn)
Samuel Hamzem (horn)
Darrin Coleman Milling (bass trombone)
Linda Bustani (piano)
Ilan Rechtman (piano)
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

John Neschling

About

After a highly acclaimed 3-disc traversal of Villa-Lobos’ 9 Bachianas Brasileiras, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) takes on the Choros by the same composer, in a cycle supervised by the orchestra’s artistic director John Neschling. In the Choros, composed between 1920 and 1929, Villa-Lobos’ point of departure is the Brazilian popular genre called choro, and he described his Choros as a synthesis of ‘the different modalities of indigenous and popular Brazilian music’, adding that the word ‘serenade’ gives an approximate idea of what Choros is. This vagueness was probably intentional – Villa-Lobos wanted to catch the improvisatory aspect of the genre and, as a result, the works are very varied.

The cycle includes brief solo pieces, chamber settings and full-length works for large symphony orchestra, with or without solo instruments or choir, as exemplified by the first volume of this series, released in February 2008. This received a Diapason d’or in the French magazine Diapason, and a review that described the performance of No.7 – for seven players – ‘a lesson in agogic freedom’ and the monumental No.11 – for piano and orchestra – ’a master-piece that opens up onto an almost infinite acoustic universe’, applauding the ’extraordinary interpretation’ by Cristina Ortiz and the orchestra.

Volume 2 includes the first of the Choros, for solo guitar, as well as No.4 for three horns & trombone, but also three large-scale orchestral works, adding further facets to this fascinating and kaleidoscopic cycle.

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