This page lists all recordings of Chôros No. 5 'Alma Brasileira' for piano, by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) on CD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Nelson Freire: Brasileiro
Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire’s eagerly awaited new album, Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos & Friends, pays tribute to his country’s greatest composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, upon the 125th anniversary of his birth. In containing Freire’s personal choice of rarely recorded pieces by seven other lesser-known Brazilian composers whose music helped shape his artistic personality during his formative early years, the album also offers a sonic “portrait of the pianist as a young man”. Comprising works that roughly span the seventy or so years of Villa-Lobos’s own lifetime, Freire’s chosen repertoire chronicles the efforts of three generations of Brazilian composers to forge a recognisably national musical language out of an amalgam of European influences and indigenous folk and popular styles. In combination with his trademark technical mastery and legendary sense of melodic line, Nelson Freire’s quintessentially Latin American temperament and innate sense of rhythmic ease ensure that he brings a uniquely authentic touch to the rarely heard piano music of his native land. “Freire characterises and colours each one inimitably, never searching for emotional depths that aren't there, nor attempting to confer profundity on music that is mostly intended simply to be enjoyed...if there is a more perfectly played piano disc released this year, we will be very lucky indeed.” The Guardian, 23rd August 2012 ***** “Freire's kind of artistry raises [the repertoire] to an entirely different level. There's plenty of flair and soul, yet the playing is always crystalline and precise, perfectly pedalled, the colours as subtle as a Debussy prelude...Just drop-dead gorgeous repertoire and performances: I don't think I've enjoyed any piano recording more this year.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 ***** “Freire presents a masterlcass in nonchalant playfulness, capturing to perfection the charm of a composer often criticised for being too fecund and unselfcritical but here heard at his best...Freire is a class act - and 'Brasiliero', immaculately recorded by the way, is sheer delight from start to finish.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2012  BBC Music Magazine
Instrumental Choice - December 2012 |
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| |  | Villa-Lobos: Complete Solo Piano Works Volume 2
The long awaited second release in Marcelo Bratke’s complete piano music of Villa-Lobos. All the works on this CD have a direct reference to Brazil and come from two different periods of Villa-Lobo’s artistic output. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Villa-Lobos: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Heitor Villa-Lobos | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Villa-Lobos: Sexteto místico and other chamber music
William Ludwig (bassoon), Jared Hauser (oboe), Douglas Rubio (guitar), Nicholas Roth (piano), Tannis Gibson (piano), Timothy McAllister (soprano saxophone), Rachel Ferris (harp), Jill Heyboer (flute), Timothy McAllister (alto saxophone), Nicholas Roth (celesta) | |
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| |  | Ibero American PassionPiano Music from Spain and South America
Beatrice Berthold (piano) | |
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| |  | Villa-Lobos - Chôros Volume I
After a highly acclaimed 3-disc traversal of Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra takes on his Choros. Villa-Lobos himself described his Choros as a synthesis of ‘the different modalities of indigenous and popular Brazilian music’. “Ortiz has recorded it before but her new account is splendid, fresh and wistful, born of long experience. ” Gramophone Magazine, June 2008 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Transcriptions - Guitares de Versailles
Guitar Quartet of Versailles Founded in 1987, this quartet soon established an international reputation, winning 1st Prize in 1991 at the International Guitar Quartet Competition held in Völkingen, Germany. Their range of repertoire is wide and includes works from the Renaissance up to the present day. They have commissioned new works from composers such as Félix Ibarrondo and Franz Constant; whilst their transcriptions have been praised by several influential composers, including Rodrigo and Farkas. Much of the quartet’s success has been due to the way in which they interact with the public at their concerts, which have included numerous tours abroad, including England. This recording is dedicated to the Spanish film maker Carlos Saura. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Great Pianists - Women at the Piano Volume 2An Anthology of Historic Performances
Bach, J S: | Prelude and Fugue No. 36 in F minor Elsie Hall | Bartók: | Romanian Folk Dances for piano, Sz. 56, BB 68 Lili Kraus | Chopin: | Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Irene Scharrer | Couperin, F: | Pièces de clavecin III: Ordre 18ème in F major: Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les Maillotins Kathleen Long | Dohnányi: | Rhapsody No. 3 in C major, Op. 11 No. 3 Johanne Amalie Stockmarr | Garreta: | Sardana Blanche Selva | Goossens: | The Hurdy-Gurdy Man Claudette Sorel | Gould, John: | Boogie Woogie Etude Leah Effenbach | Hummel, J: | Rondo for piano in E flat major, Op. 11 Lubka Kolessa | Ibert: | Le petit âne blanc (from Histoires) France Marguerite Ellegaard | Lecuona: | Suite Andalucía: Malagueña Olga Samaroff | Liszt: | Étude d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140 No. 6 Marie-Aimée Warrot Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera Raie Da Costa Spinnerlied aus Der fliegende Holländer S440 Galina Werschenska | Rachmaninov: | Barcarolle in G minor. Op. 10 No. 3 Madeleine de Valmalète | Schumann: | Aufschwung, Op. 12, No. 2 Ania Dorfmann | Scriabin: | Étude Op. 8 No. 10 in D flat major Muriel Kerr | Villa-Lobos: | Chôros No. 5 'Alma Brasileira' for piano Ellen Ballon | Vogrich: | Staccato Caprice in F sharp major Yolanda Merö | Weber: | Perpetuum Mobile (Rondo from Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 24) Ginette Doyen |
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