Villa-Lobos - Piano Music Vol.7 | Naxos 8570503

Villa-Lobos - Piano Music Vol.7

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570503

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 29th September 2008

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Villa-Lobos was one of the most prolific of all 20th-century composers. The works on this seventh volume of the complete piano works show the multilayered nature of Villa-Lobos’s idiom, which is as exuberant as the Brazilian landscape that inspired him so often.

Amazonas, subtitled ‘Brazilian Indian ballet’, is based on indigenous themes that were embedded in the texture, and innovatively varied and transformed through sophisticated harmonic and rhythmic experiments. Even today, Amazonas remains startling for its adventurous musical language.

Several of the shorter pieces on this disc exist only in manuscript, and receive here their world première recording.

Sonia Rubinsky's colourful and technically shipshape interpretations are as lovingly nuanced and thoroughly idiomatic as we can desire, and they're beautifully recorded as well. In sum, this valuable addition to the Villa-Lobos discography deserves no less than the highest rating and warmest recommendation.” Classics Today on Naxos 8570008 (Vol.5)

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