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Villa-Lobos Twitter Marathon - September 2011

#63 - September 1 - Madona was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Fdn, premiered in the US by the BSO under Eleazar de Carvalho, a Koussevitzky pupil
#64 - September 2 - Piano Concerto #5 - - not a subtle piece!
#65 - September 3 - Dança dos Mosquitos, a 4-minute orchestral piece - a little modernist masterpiece - One of Villa-Lobos's most important late works, the String Trio: http://t.co/6W8qZID String Quartet no10, from 1946 - Bachianas Brasileiras no4, the orchestral version - Roberto Tibiriçá & OSESP: Gênesis, a ballet written for Janet Collins in 1954 - Fantasia Concertante for piano, clarinet & bassoon - String Quartet no6 - listen to Cuarteto Buenos Aires play the beautiful Andante quasi adagio: Quinteto em forma de Choros, a very popular piece for woodwind quintets nowadays - Tristorosa, an early piano work - Olinda Allessandrini plays the piece at Radio UOL http://t.co/V02ogQq
#74 - September12 - Bachianas Brasileiras no9 comes in 2 versions, for strings & for choir. The latter, by Madrigal Paidéia: Piano Trio no1 - - written just over 100 years ago, this is a fairly popular work.
#76 - September 16 - Cello sonata no2 - - Ito Koji & Sano Masako play this work, written by a professional cellist
#77 - September 17 - Bachianas Brasileiras no2 - - O trenzinho do Caipira was considered by Walt Disney for a 2nd Fantasia
#78 - September 19 - Choros no4 for 3 horns and trombone - - such a cool piece!
#79 - September 20 - Choros no12 - - one of Villa-Lobos's great big orchestral "things"
#80 - September 21 - Petizada Suite, an early (1912) work for piano - - Sonia Rubinsky captures its charm
#81 - September 22 -  String Quartet no8, written in 1944 - http://t.co/smR3Ok4b
#82 - September 23 - Canções de Cordialidade, songs of celebration from 1945 - String Quartet no12, written in 1950 at Memorial Hospital in NY - Brasil novo: hymno revolucionario, for band. The 2nd Cello Concerto, commissioned by Aldo Parisot in 1953 - http://t.co/A2tzEcOe
#86 - September 27 - Choros no3 "Pica-Pau", for male chorus & 7 winds - Duo for violin & viola - considering how often Villa wrote for 100s (even 1000s) of instruments & voices, he does so much with 2
#88 - September 29 - Distribuição de flores for flute & guitar - - premiered by the great Choro guitarist João Pernambuco
#89 - September 30 - Bendita Sabedoria, a late choral work dedicated to NYU - Madrigal Brasil in this video: