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Monday, September 22, 2014

Bachianas Brasileiras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Bachianas Brasileiras (Portuguese pronunciation: [bakiˈɐ̃nɐz bɾaziˈlejɾɐs]) are a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent not so much a fusion of 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 (Béhague 1994, 106; Béhague 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.).



My favorite:

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5[edit]

Scored for soprano and orchestra of cellos (1938/45).
  • Ária (Cantilena) (lyrics by Ruth V. Corrêa) (Later arranged for solo soprano with guitar accompaniment by Villa-Lobos). This Aria is Villa-Lobos's best-known work (Béhague 2001).
  • Dança (Martelo) (lyrics by Manuel Bandeira)




Villa-Lobos made a number of recordings of the Bachianas Brasileiras, including an integral recording of all nine compositions made in Paris for EMI in the 1950s, with the French National Orchestra and Victoria de los Ángeles as the soprano soloist in the no. 5. 





Victoria de los Ángeles (1 November 1923 – 15 January 2005) was a Spanish operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.










Victoria de los Angeles sings
"Aria (Cantilena)"
from Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise
Heitor Villa_Lobos, conductor
1957
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    • Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (for soprano and 8 cellos) (1998 Digital Remaster): I. Aria (Cantilena) (1938) Adagio (iTunes)
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