This page lists all recordings of Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 for at least 8 cellos, by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras Volume 3
Donna Brown (soprano), Jean Louis Steuerman (piano), Sato Moughalian (flute) & Alexandre Silvério (bassoon) The Cellists of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) with the special participation of Antônio Meneses, Roberto Minczuk “The cellists of the São Paulo SOP give measured and beautifully poised accounts of Nos 1 and 5 and the performers catch the intimacy one expects of the medium. Donna Brown is in fine voice in No 5… No 4 may well be the most unfamiliar to those who know the standard "orchestral" version... evocative of Bach in its use of a keyboard. Jean Louis Steuerman... plays with great finesse and understanding...” Gramophone Magazine, December 2007 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Juliane Banse (Soprano) The 12 Cellos of the Berlin Philharmonic Who knew that the solid, staid old Berlin Philharmonic had such a groovy group of swingers in its cello section? One of them plays the maracas during the rests in his part, others slap their instruments with abandon, and some of them even shout at appropriate moments: if this makes them sound like trainspotters letting their hair down, it's not meant to. This recording of South American and South American-inspired music is full of joy from beginning to end, and played with the kind of accuracy other ensembles only dream of. The mood ranges from sultry and sweaty (Kaiser-Lindemann's Brazilian Variations) through coolly intellectual (the Fugue from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1) to pure sunshine (Burt Bacharach's "South American Getaway"). The arrangements are models of their kind, and the cellists respond to their challenges with bravura and passion--at times creating sounds remarkably like a bandonéon, at others producing perfect harmonics in octaves or just singing out with pure joy. Irresistibly seductive. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Heitor Villa-Lobos | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Villa-Lobos - Bachianas brasileiras Nos. 1 & 5
Jill Gomez (soprano) & Peter Manning (violin) Pleeth Cello Octet 'Stunning performances' (BBC Record Review) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Meridian Arts Ensemble - Timbrando
This is our ninth CD, and it is being released in the year of our twentieth anniversary. The CD is a travelogue of sorts, containing music we picked up on tour around Latin and South America and in the US. Several of the pieces on this disc were commissioned for our visit to the Subtropics Festival in Miami – a city that is a great crossroads of Latin culture – in 1997. Other pieces we collected in foreign places or from friends we made in those places. We have brought all this music to our home base, New York, another cross-cultural gathering place. And now to listeners wherever they may be. Timbrando is Portuguese for ‘making a tone’ or ‘sounding’ (it is related to the word ‘timbre’). “Superb virtuosos” Fanfare | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Barbara Hendricks, Eldon Fox Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Batiz | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Orchestre Philharmonique De Liege, Cello Octet Conjunto Iberico, Pierre Bartholomee, Georges-Elie Octors, Elias Arizcuren Villa-Lobos was a composer of astonishingly prolific creativity, though most of his works are little-known and his discography is meagre. An autodidact, he developed a personal system of composition, inspired by Brazilian folk music (cf. Chôros VII which mixes winds and strings in a direct evocation of the streets of Rio), contemporary European music, and Bach (in the Bachiana brasileira nr. 1 which employs the special sound of an orchestra of cellos). The focal point of this record, Chôros XII, described by the composer as "strong, big and robust as an old elephant" is a monumental work that develops a structure based on variation form. Villa-Lobos displays an consummate art of orchestration. The publication Les indispensables du disque compact classique (Fayard) refers to this recording as "to be marked by a white stone: we had no idea these musicians from Liège could pick up Brazilian rhythms so naturally. A success" - one that is updated for the greater pleasure of listeners. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Arleen Augér (soprano), Aldo Parisot (cello) Yale Cellos | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Rosana Lamosa (soprano), José Feghali (piano) Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Andrew Mogrelia | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Batiz Heitor Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro on 5 March, 1887 and died there on 17 November, 1959. He is possibly the best-known classical composer born in South America. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas brasileiras ("Brazilian Bach-pieces"), issued here complete. The nine suites that make up the Bachianas brasileiras were composed between 1930 and 1945.
The most well-known of these pieces are the famous Ària from No.5 and the Tocata from No.2 (entitled 'The Little Train of Caipira') – a wonderful musical depiction of a locomotive in motion. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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