wimpel69
06-17-2014, 03:57 PM
This recording received a 1998 "Critic's Choice" award from Gramophone magazine.
The Bachianas Brasileiras (Portuguese pronunciation: ) constitute a series of nine
suites by the Brazilian composer [B]Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and
voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent not so much a fusion between Brazilian folk and popular music on
the one hand, and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt freely to adapt a number of
Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music (B�hague 1994, 106; B�hague 2001). Most
of the movements in each suite have two titles: one "Bachian" (Preludio, Fuga, etc.), the other Brazilian
(Embolada, O canto da nossa terra, etc.).
Because Villa-Lobos dashed off compositions in feverish haste and preferred writing new pieces to revising
and correcting already completed ones, numerous slips of the pen, miscalculations, impracticalities or even
impossibilities, imprecise notations, uncertainty in specification of instruments, and other problems inescapably
remain in the printed scores of the Bachianas, and require performers to take unusual care to decipher what
the composer actually intended.
Please request the EAC-FLAC rip, including complete artwork, booklet, log & cue, in this thread. No PM's, please!
This is my own rip. Limited sharing period. You can find an mp3 conversion below.
Music Composed by
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Played by the
New World Symphony
With
Ren�e Fleming (soprano)
Conducted by
Michael Tilson Thomas
"Villa-Lobos considered Bach�s music to be �a universal folkloric source� forming
an �intermediary between all peoples�, and between 1930 and 1945 wrote the nine
Bachianas Brasileiras which have remained among the most popular of his works.
The pieces were designed as a tribute to Bach. They are cast as Baroque suites
that refracted through a specifically Brazilian perspective, so that each movement
carries a dual focus, often Baroque in form (ABA), but in national idiom, be it in
the instrumentation (there is much use of percussion, notably the xylophone),
the syncopated rhythms of local dances or even in the imitation of Amazonian
birdsong. Although one sometimes wishes for more spikiness here, Tilson Thomas
strikes a nice balance between this polished, late-Romantic version of the Baroque
and the boisterous Brazilian energies, and there is an earthy tang to Ren�e Fleming�s
wordless song in the Cantilena, which never quite drifts off into the glucose ether
that can afflict the movement. The young members of the New World Symphony give
accomplished and stylish performances, especially the percussionists; they are
joined by the BBC Singers in an enjoyable account of the earlier, Stravinsky-like
Ch�ros No. 10."
William Humphreys-Jones, BBC Music Magazine
Source: RCA/BMG Red Seal CD (my rip!)
Formats: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo, mp3/320(CBR)
File Sizes: 425 MB / 178 MB (FLAC version incl. artwork & booklet)
mp3 version - https://mega.co.nz/#!msoHQDII!KlNcCzf88dWdpMc_RwVzJyj02vVnDJ4dXvMusQX CSWI
Please request the EAC-FLAC rip, including complete artwork,
booklet, log & cue, in this thread. No PM's, please! This is my own rip. Limited sharing period.
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the original! :)
Please click on "Like" if you enjoyed this release. ;)
The Bachianas Brasileiras (Portuguese pronunciation: ) constitute a series of nine
suites by the Brazilian composer [B]Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and
voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent not so much a fusion between Brazilian folk and popular music on
the one hand, and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt freely to adapt a number of
Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music (B�hague 1994, 106; B�hague 2001). Most
of the movements in each suite have two titles: one "Bachian" (Preludio, Fuga, etc.), the other Brazilian
(Embolada, O canto da nossa terra, etc.).
Because Villa-Lobos dashed off compositions in feverish haste and preferred writing new pieces to revising
and correcting already completed ones, numerous slips of the pen, miscalculations, impracticalities or even
impossibilities, imprecise notations, uncertainty in specification of instruments, and other problems inescapably
remain in the printed scores of the Bachianas, and require performers to take unusual care to decipher what
the composer actually intended.
Please request the EAC-FLAC rip, including complete artwork, booklet, log & cue, in this thread. No PM's, please!
This is my own rip. Limited sharing period. You can find an mp3 conversion below.
Music Composed by
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Played by the
New World Symphony
With
Ren�e Fleming (soprano)
Conducted by
Michael Tilson Thomas
"Villa-Lobos considered Bach�s music to be �a universal folkloric source� forming
an �intermediary between all peoples�, and between 1930 and 1945 wrote the nine
Bachianas Brasileiras which have remained among the most popular of his works.
The pieces were designed as a tribute to Bach. They are cast as Baroque suites
that refracted through a specifically Brazilian perspective, so that each movement
carries a dual focus, often Baroque in form (ABA), but in national idiom, be it in
the instrumentation (there is much use of percussion, notably the xylophone),
the syncopated rhythms of local dances or even in the imitation of Amazonian
birdsong. Although one sometimes wishes for more spikiness here, Tilson Thomas
strikes a nice balance between this polished, late-Romantic version of the Baroque
and the boisterous Brazilian energies, and there is an earthy tang to Ren�e Fleming�s
wordless song in the Cantilena, which never quite drifts off into the glucose ether
that can afflict the movement. The young members of the New World Symphony give
accomplished and stylish performances, especially the percussionists; they are
joined by the BBC Singers in an enjoyable account of the earlier, Stravinsky-like
Ch�ros No. 10."
William Humphreys-Jones, BBC Music Magazine
Source: RCA/BMG Red Seal CD (my rip!)
Formats: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo, mp3/320(CBR)
File Sizes: 425 MB / 178 MB (FLAC version incl. artwork & booklet)
mp3 version - https://mega.co.nz/#!msoHQDII!KlNcCzf88dWdpMc_RwVzJyj02vVnDJ4dXvMusQX CSWI
Please request the EAC-FLAC rip, including complete artwork,
booklet, log & cue, in this thread. No PM's, please! This is my own rip. Limited sharing period.
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the original! :)
Please click on "Like" if you enjoyed this release. ;)