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Heitor Villa-Lobos, Debora Halasz, Roland Pöntinen
Villa-Lobos: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Rudepo?ma, for piano, A. 184
2. A lenda do caboclo, for piano, A. 166
3. Suite Floral (3), suite for piano, A. 117 (Op. 97): 1. Idilio na R?de
4. Suite Floral (3), suite for piano, A. 117 (Op. 97): 2. Uma Camponeza cantadeira
5. Suite Floral (3), suite for piano, A. 117 (Op. 97): 3. Alegria na Horta
6. Carnaval das crian?as brasilieras (8), suite for piano, A. 157: 1. O Gin?te do Pierrozinho
7. Carnaval das crian?as brasilieras (8), suite for piano, A. 157: 2. O Chicote do Diabinho
8. Carnaval das crian?as brasilieras (8), suite for piano, A. 157: 3. A Manha da Pierrete
9. Carnaval das crian?as brasilieras (8), suite for piano, A. 157: 4. Os Guizos do Dominozinho
10. Carnaval das crian?as brasilieras (8), suite for piano, A. 157: 5. As Perip?cias do Trapeirozinho
11. Carnaval das crian?as brasilieras (8), suite for piano, A. 157: 6. As Traquinices do Mascarado Mignon
12. Carnaval das crian?as brasilieras (8), suite for piano, A. 157: 7. A Gaita de um Precoce Fantasiado
13. Carnaval das crian?as brasilieras (8), suite for piano, A. 157: 8. A Folia de um Bloco Infantil for piano 4 hands
14. Ch?ros No. 5, for piano, 'Alma brasiliera', A. 207
15. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, for piano, A. 264: 1. Preludio (Introdu??o)
16. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, for piano, A. 264: 2. Coral (Canto do Sert?o)
17. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, for piano, A. 264: 3. Aria (Cantiga)
18. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, for piano, A. 264: 4. Dan?a (Miudinho)

CD Details

All Artists: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Debora Halasz, Roland Pöntinen
Title: Villa-Lobos: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Bis
Release Date: 7/18/1995
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Concertos, Suites, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 789368210626, 7318590007129

Synopsis

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Villa-Lobos wrote so much music (over 2,000 pieces) that you need someone to sort out the wheat from the chaff for you. BIS obviously isn't interested in that job, since this is the first volume of his "Complete Solo Piano Music," which will inevitably include some dull pieces. Here we've lucked out. Rudepoema may be a noisy mess, but if it's too episodic, it certainly isn't dull. The other music is mostly out of Villa-Lobos's top drawer, and it's all very excitingly played by Halász, who was born in Brazil and knows the idiom very well. (Pontinen joins her for just one brief four-hand movement.) Excellent sound, long program (nearly 76:00). --Leslie Gerber

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CD Reviews

A slow start

W. M. Bujokas | Curitiba, BR | 01/04/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"There are many myths about Villa-Lobos's production. One is the incredible production of 2000 works. Despite being really big (his catalogue has almost 600 pieces), even if we count all the mouvements of all his works, the number is not reachable. Other myth is the so-called irregularity of his production. Though it's not completely false, his irregularity is not so different from that of most important composers. And in fact his piano music is one of his best moments. Even his simplest pieces have some original details (except for his boring Suites Infantis), and the best works (Rudepoema, 2 Proles do Bebê, Cirandas, Carnaval das Crianças, Bachianas nº4, Choros 5 etc.) are among the best works ever written for the instrument. Nonetheless, they are often quite badly played, or it should be better to say interpretated, because in fact the biggest problem is that many pianists play note after note and can't express the richness of his musical universe.

This first volume shows exactly this problems. Débora Halázs made a marvellous work in the next volumes, mainly in the third and fourth ones (much more intense and clever than Sonia Rubinsky or Anna Stella Schic in theirs). But here she wasn't mature enough to face a so demanding piece as Rudepoema. Anyway, there are some good interpretations, mainly of Bachianas Brasileiras nº4 (even though Antonio Guedes Barbosa's remains as a much better one)."