Search - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ariel Ramirez, Jorge Cardoso :: Villa-Lobos: Suite Populaire Brésilienne for guitar No1-5; Chôro No1

Must-have Villa-Lobos

Dan Cunningham | Morgantown, WV USA | 01/26/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is great stuff! I have heard many other versions of these Villa-Lobos guitar pieces and this is now my favorite. The interpretations are almost mysterious. There is great clarity in the recording and Ms Smits'instrument has a wonderfully full sound. I had never heard of Smits until I heard this recording, but she now has my attention."

Should have recorded the complete Villa-Lobos Suite

Redgecko | USA | 07/02/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Jorge Cardoso accompanies Smits on tracks 10, 16, 17 & 18, so this isn't an all-solo guitar recording. Also, note that Smits plays an 8-string guitar on this recording. I don't particularly like guitar duets or 8-string guitar work because I'm a solo guitarist and relate more to solo 6-string performances. But my major criticism, is that the Suite Popular Brasileiro was butchered and doesn't include the 1st and 4th movements, the Mazurka-Choro and Gavotta-Choro respectively. To make room for these movements, the Choros No. 1 should have been dropped which would have left ample space for the lesiurely pace at which she plays the Suite.

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Unique and exclusive taste for latin and classical guitar

Yahya Levent Konac | Ankara, Turkey | 07/19/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Raphaella Smits performs Villa-Lobos' pieces in a different style with her ten strings guitar. The others especially with Jorge Cardoso, are really unique and excellent."