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For decades this was the prime recommendation for the complete […]
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a prolific though maddeningly inconsistent composer. At
A nice surprise: A German chorus singing music with a marked Brazilian tinge led by a Brit. This is a collection of short works for
These are wonderful pieces, with only perhaps the Rodrigo at all well-known today, and then only because of his famous guitar concertos. Boieldieu was a
Villa-Lobos’ late masterpiece, Forest of the Amazon, began life as a Hollywood film score, the majority of which was never used. So he developed the
Arthur Rubinstein’s 1964 recital in the Moscow Conservatory’s Great Hall was preserved in the Russian State television archives, and now is released for the first
Here’s an easy call: these are the finest recordings of these works currently available. In reviewing the individual releases, I had perhaps one small reservation
There is nothing to criticize here: it’s all wonderful. This final volume in BIS’s survey of the extant Choros pieces by Villa-Lobos (Nos. 13 and
Here are 80 minutes’ worth of highlights from Arthur Rubinstein’s April 20, 1963 recital in Nijmegen, and “high” is the operative word. The performances bring
Ondine already has a fine recording of Choros No. 11, an hour-long concerto for piano and orchestra that runs continuously (and so is almost never
