Villa-Lobos Piano Works
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Composer or Director: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 9/1988
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: DCA607
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Valsa da dor |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Bachianas brasileiras No. 4 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Ciclo brasileiro |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Chôros No. 5, 'Alma brasileira' |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Composer or Director: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 9/1988
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 59
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDDCA607
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Valsa da dor |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Bachianas brasileiras No. 4 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Ciclo brasileiro |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Chôros No. 5, 'Alma brasileira' |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Composer or Director: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 9/1988
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ZCDCA607
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Valsa da dor |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Bachianas brasileiras No. 4 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Ciclo brasileiro |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Chôros No. 5, 'Alma brasileira' |
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer
Alma Petchersky, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer |
Author: Lionel Salter
One of the most attractive features of her performances is the subtlety of her tonal gradations, very effective in the reprises of the ''Aria'' in Bachianas brasileiras No. 4 and particularly in its isorhythmic ''Preludio'', thus lessening the monotony often felt in that movement (though twice through is excessive anyway). Also noteworthy is her use—and non-use—of the pedal in the last two pieces of the Ciclo brasileiro. She produces a lovely poetic calm in the first movement of that work, Is thoroughly convincing in the complex cross-rhythms of Choros No. 5 (so like those in Copland's Salon Mexico, though Villa-Lobos got there first), and is most affecting in the final Lento of the Valsa da dor; but does she overdo the rubatos in that sad waltz and the final page of ''Impressoes seresteiras''? A matter of taste, but what I do find inappropriate is the staccato quavers at the main-section cadences of the Valsa da dor (they belong to the contrasting Moderato section). The acoustics of the recording could with advantage have been a little more resonant; but this is still a very recommendable issue.'
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