a r t i s t : Heitor Villa-Lobos (John Neschling)
t i t l e : Floresta do Amazonas
d a t e : 2010
l a b e l : Bis
c a t : 1660
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Classical
r l s. d a t e : Feb/2011
t r a c k s : 23
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 102,3 MB
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In 1958, the year before his death, Villa-Lobos was
commissioned by MGM to write the score for Green Mansions, a
film starring Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins, based upon
WH Hudson's novel and set in the rain forests of south-east
Venezuela. Villa-Lobos composed his score on the basis of the
screenplay, imagining the visuals would be edited to suit his
music, rather than vice versa. He was deeply offended when the
great span of symphonic music he produced was rejected and
just a few fragments of it used, all reharmonised and
reorchestrated. Thus he recycled much of the discarded music
in one of his last major works, the massive Floresta do
Amazonas. With the addition of extra passages, including four
orchestral songs, it is part cantata and part symphonic poem,
but above all a portrait of Brazil and its forests. 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. For all its unevenness, though, it hangs together
just because Villa-Lobos insists it should, and this
recording, the latest in a line of important Villa-Lobos discs
from John Neschling and the Sπo Paulo Symphony, reveals the
score in all its rambling magnificence.
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01-floresta do amazonas- ouverture [02:24]
02-a floresta (the forest) [08:06]
03-dance of the indians [03:21]
04-in the depths of the forest [02:16]
05-bird of the forest - first song [04:25]
06-nature's dance [02:41]
07-bird of the forest - second song [03:59]
08-song in the forest i [00:37]
09-conspiracy and war dance [04:19]
10-veleiros (sailing ships) [03:24]
11-on the way to the hunt [04:53]
12-bird of the forest - third song [02:07]
13-cair da tarde (twilight) [03:07]
14-the indians in search of the girl [00:56]
15-bird of the forest - fourth song [03:25]
16-war dance - repeat [01:51]
17-interlude and lullaby [02:51]
18-song in the forest ii [03:05]
19-head hunters [06:21]
20-love song [04:01]
21-sentimental melody [03:31]
22-forest fire [03:53]
23-epilogo [03:05]
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78:38 min