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Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas, W 551

Anna Korondi (soprano)

Male voices of the Choir of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra & São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, John Neschling

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The music is, of course, wilful, fluid, entirely unpredictable, with moments of extreme violence and tremendous beauty...The orchestration is variegated, by turns dense and transparent, lush...

Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas, W 551

Anna Korondi (soprano)

Male voices of the Choir of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra & São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, John Neschling

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The music is, of course, wilful, fluid, entirely unpredictable, with moments of extreme violence and tremendous beauty...The orchestration is variegated, by turns dense and transparent, lush...

About

The subject of the Amazonian forests surfaces in a number of works throughout Villa – Lobos’s output. In Floresta do Amazonas, one of his very last works, Villa-Lobos again focused explicitly on the rain forest, the creatures that live in it, and the myths that have been woven around it. The work has been described as a symphonic poem for soprano, male-voice choir and large orchestra, The songs, Melodia Sentimental in particular, have also become popular as separate concert items. The suite's twenty-three movements have rousing titles such as ‘Forest Fire', ‘Head Hunters' and ‘Dance of the Indians', but also include numbers such as ‘Lullaby' and ‘Twilight'.

Contents and tracklist

Overture
Track length2:24
A Floresta (The Forest)
Track length8:05
Danca dos Indios (Dance of the Indians)
Track length3:21
Em Plena Floresta (In the Depths of the Forest)
Track length2:15
Passaro da Floresta - Canto I (Bird of the Forest - First Song)
Track length4:24
Danca da Natureza (Nature's Dance)
Track length2:40
Passaro da Floresta - Canto II (Bird of the Forest - Second Song)
Track length3:59
Canto na Floresta I (Song in the Forest I)
Track length0:37
Conspiracao e Danca Guerreira (Conspiracy and War Dance)
Track length4:18
Veleiros (Sailing Ships)
Track length3:23
Em Caminhos para a Cacada (On the way to the Hunt)
Track length4:52
Passaro da Floresta - Canto III (Bird of the Forest - Third Song)
Track length2:06
Cair da Tarde (Twilight)
Track length3:06
Os Indios em Busca da Moca (The Indians in Search of the Girl)
Track length0:56
Passaro da Floresta - Canto IV (Bird of the Forest - Fourth Song)
Track length3:24
Danca Guerreira - repeticao (War Dance - repeat)
Track length1:51
Interludio e Acalanto (Interlude and Lullaby)
Track length2:50
Canto na Floresta II (Song in the Forest II)
Track length3:05
Cacadores de Cabeca (Head Hunters)
Track length6:21
Cancao do Amor (Love Song)
Track length4:01
Melodia Sentimental (Sentimental Melody)
Track length3:30
O Fogo na Floresta (Forest Fire)
Track length3:53
Epilogue
Track length3:04

Awards and reviews

  • Diapason d’Or de l’Année
    2009

Awards Issue 2010

The music is, of course, wilful, fluid, entirely unpredictable, with moments of extreme violence and tremendous beauty...The orchestration is variegated, by turns dense and transparent, lush and spare. Hungarian soprano Anna Korondi is excellent and her Portugese perfectly acceptable...Very warmly recommended.

19th August 2010

It's a typical Villa-Lobos patchwork, including a male chorus chanting in an Amazonian language, extravagant vocalise for the soprano solo and lushly romantic textures straight out of Hollywood...this recording...reveals the score in all its rambling magnificence.

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