The live recording heard on this disc was not exactly the "debut concert" of Brazilian duo guitarists Odair and Sergio Assad, who had some exposure, performing separately and together, in the U.S. in the late '70s. Nonetheless, it was quite a significant event -- it was the brothers' European debut, and it introduced their compelling mixture of ...
Like many artists in search of a national musical identity, yet chained to classical European models, Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone had considerable difficulty finding his own voice. The raw material of folk songs and dances from São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro were available to Mignone, and he used them to impressive effect in his lavish ...
The Canadian duo piano team of Anne Louise-Turgeon and Edward Turgeon are doing their part to get more music for two pianos out there with this disc of works by Latin American composers. Most of the pieces here were originally written for two pianos, including some unpublished works by Francisco Mignone, received by Duo Turgeon from the composer's ...
Francisco Mignone was a Brazilian composer, active in the 1920s when the art of Villa-Lobos was at its height; he continued to write music almost until his death in 1986. The piano music heard on this disc has little of Villa-Lobos' modernism in it, although it has some of the semi-popular qualities of an earlier Brazilian composer, Ernesto ...
Here's an enjoyable release for the listener who has wondered how Heitor Villa-Lobos fits into a wider tradition of Brazilian music -- and he does in various ways, despite his globe-trotting career. What makes Villa-Lobos so endlessly compelling is that owing to the facts of Brazil's social history, nationalism was temporally pushed forward in its ...
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