BB#1 & #5 at the Kings Place Festival
Kings Place: Hall One, London, London N1 9AG, United Kingdom
Saturday 11-Sep-10 15:45
Latin American Classics - 2, Bachianas Brasileras - Chilingirian Quartet/Millennium Quartet
Tickets: £4.50.
Starting in 1930 Villa-Lobos composed what is probably his most famous series of works, the nine Bachianas Brasileiras. A lifelong admirer of the music of J S Bach, by this title he meant to suggest a synthesis of Bach's style - especially his endless melody and elaborate polyphony - with the spirit of Brazilian music in all its melodic and rhythmic diversity, along with Villa-Lobos's personal blend of polytonality. Bachiana No. 1 was to be performed by a ‘cello orchestra' of at least eight players, with the central movement, Modinha, being a kind of sweetly melodious, sentimental song which Villa-Lobos thought of as a counterpart to Bach's arias. The well-loved Bachiana No. 5 is for soprano and five cellos. In the first movement the soprano spins her soaring melody above pizzicato cellos, and in the passionate central section intones a nocturnal poem by Ruth Valadares Correa. The lively, humorous finale is a martelo, a dancesong from Northern Brazil, to a poem invoking the birds of Brazil and their songs. The Venezuelan teacher, conductor and horn-player Innocente Carreno has written two string quartets displaying a wide range of styles and a melodic gift, founded on Venezuelan folk music, that has also brought him renown as a composer of songs.
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Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959), Bachianas Brasileiras: no. 1 for 8 cellos
Carreño, Inocente (1918-1991), String Quartet no. 2
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959), Bachianas Brasileiras: no. 5 for voice and 8 cellos
Chilingirian Quartet
Millennium Quartet