Choros #07
This work is also called Choros 7 (Septuor) = (Septet). I'm assuming the tam-tam is left out of the count (like when Ringo plays the tambourine in a Beatles song. Though they're still the Fab Four, I guess. So never mind.)
Choros #07 is dedicated to Dr. Arnaldo Guinle, who generously gave Villa the money for his first trip to Paris.
Download an MP3 file at the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet - Performed May 25, 1979. Meany Theater, University of Washington.
Written for flute, oboe, cello, clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, tam-tam, and violin.
Villa-Lobos, Heitor. 1955. Choros no. 7; septuor. Paris: Eschig.
This is one of the first scores to be published in the Villa-Lobos Digital project of the Academia Brasileira da Música.
The ASV disc of the first seven Choros, with soloists from the Orquestra Filarmonica De Gran Canaria, includes an excellent version of Choros #07.
...as does the new BIS recording with the musicians of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra.
Also recommended: Os choros de câmara (Kuarup)
- Chamber Music Palm Beach: Illuminations
- Chamber Music (Signum)
- A Obra de Câmara para Sopros de Heitor Villa-Lobos (ABM)
- Complete Choros & Bachianas Brasileiras (BIS)
- Chamber and Choral Music (Lontano)
- Obras Raras na Música Brasileira de Concerto
- Quadros de Uma Alma Brasileira (DVD)
- Choros XII, VII, Bachianas Brasileiras I (Cypres)
- Spanish and Latin-American music for unusual instrumental combinations
- Bachianas Brasileiras #1, Choros #04, 07 (Janssen)
- Chamber Music Favorites with Alto Saxophone
- Xango: Chamber & Choral Works
The premiere of the work was on September 17, 1925, at the Salao do Instituto Nacional de Musica in Rio de Janeiro.
I don't imagine it's that easy to round up this group of instrumentalists, but it's nice to see so many records in the Villa-Lobos Concert database (more than 25 as of March 2011).