Villa-Lobos Podcasts
Here are some podcasts that include music by Villa-Lobos:
- NEW: James Melo discusses the music of M. Camargo Guarnieri in the new Naxos podcast. I'm a big fan of Melo's work, especially his long liner-note essays in the Sonia Rubinsky Complete Villa-Lobos Piano Music series, also from Naxos.
- NEW: La chitarra di Villa-Lobos di Franz Andreani. In this Italian podcast from RadioRock.to, Franz Andreani provides a short introduction, and then plays the Narcisco Yepes versions of the Etudes & Preludes.
- National Gallery of Art podcast: Ritz Chamber Players - Program: Music by Dvorak, Mozart, and Villa-Lobos. The Ritz Chamber Players, the only all-African American professional chamber music ensemble, play masterworks of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century chamber music in concert at the National Gallery of Art. Members of the ensemble performing in this podcast are Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin, Amadi Azikiwe, viola, Tahira Whittington, cello, Judy Dines, flute, and Terrence Wilson, piano.
- Raymond Bisha's new Naxos Podcast about the Villa-Lobos Complete Piano Music box-set, which includes an excellent interview with pianist Sonia Rubinsky.
- Julian Bream's official MySpace Music Site includes a performance of Choros #01.
- In the latest OSESP Podcast, the Osesp Choir sings the choral version of Xangô.
- CPFL Cultura's 50 anos sem Villa-Lobos - 8 excellent MP3 concerts to download.
- The Sunday Gramophone at Crooks & Liars' Newstalgia features a famous 1940 recording of Bachianas Brasileiras #1 by Walter Burle Marx and the Brazilian Festival Orchestra. The sound may not be great, but this is a recording of great power, delicacy, and authenticity.
- The latest podcast in the Radio MEC series As Sinfonias de Heitor Villa-Lobos, from Sept.5, 2009
- Aspen Public Radio from September 2, 2009
- Aspen Public Radio from March 19, 2009: Jazz on a Thursday Night - a great show which includes an Eliane Elias song Jungle Festival (Festa no Sertao) by Villa-Lobos
- Aspen Public Radio from June 12, 2009: includes Sonia Rubinsky's Prole do Bebe #2.
- From Deutsche Welle's Concerto Discreto series, a concert by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra that includes the Fantasia Concertante.
- This episode of North Carolina Public Radio's The State of Things is about the Marsalis Brasilianos tour.
- North Country Public Radio's podcasts include an episode with two guitar pieces by Villa-Lobos.
- From the extensive list of podcasts of the Luna Nova New Music Ensemble, a performance of Choros #02 from July 2008.
- This episode of Fabio Zanon's Guitar Podcast includes Villa-Lobos himself performing his Choros #1, at 27:30.
- Miscelânea 07 - Música de Câmara Brasileira - this podcast episode features a performance of Sexteto mistico.
- The website of the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo has a number of podcasts available, though none by Villa-Lobos yet. I enjoyed the two featuring Camargo Guarnieri and Francisco Braga.
- Naxos - a feature on the Nashville Symphony's recording of the complete Bachianas Brasileiras
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 performed at the 2007 Belvedere Chamber Music Festival
- A second Belvedere Chamber Music Festival podcast episode features Distribution of Flowers
- Music of Tribute: Villa-Lobos - from DCD Records
- ADORNO Ensemble Gallery Session Podcasts - including a 2-part concert of various art songs by composers Harrison Birtwistle, Morton Feldman, Elliot Carter, Oliver Knussen, Aaron Copland and Heitor Villa Lobos
- classics without walls - episode 777 includes a movement from BB#9, and music from Gênesis. It's not often that you get Villa-Lobos, Ligeti and Jimi Hendrix on the same program (though it should happen more often, as far as I'm concerned.)
- KBAQ podcast: Katrina Becker speaks with cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio about the Eroica Trio's upcoming performance at the Desert Foothills MusicFest, featuring works by Haydn, Villa-Lobos, Cassado, and Smetana
- Rush Hour Concerts desert island composer: a discussion of the music of Bach, Villa-Lobos, and Morel, before Rush Hour’s Baroque to Modern concert
- You can download four chamber works at the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet website - Choros #2, Choros #7, Trio for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, and the Quinteto em Forma de Choros
Updated July 19, 2010