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The Villa-Lobos Twitter Marathon - January 2012

#143 - January 9, 2012 -  Ensemble Peregrinação sings Balaio String Quartet no3, featured in the Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art) in Sao Paulo in 1922 - String Quartet no4 - a work from 1917, a great year for Villa-Lobos
#146 - January 12, 2012 - Piano Concerto no1, commissioned in 1945 by Canadian pianist Ellen Ballon Suite no1 for Chamber Orchestra, written in the last year of Villa's life Suite Sugestiva - I love this piece, but it's very hard to find - With the clever L'Homme Tel overture
#149 - January 15, 2012 - Symphony no7 - a fine work from 1945
#150 - January 16, 2012 - Fantasia for cello & orchestra, dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky
#151- January 17, 2012 - Quintette instrumental, for flute, violin, viola, cello & harp - remembering 1920s Paris in 1957
#152 - January 18, 2012 - Tres poemas indigenas from 1929, dedicated to the anthropologist E. Roquette Pinto
#153 - January 19, 2012 - Vidapura, a "mass-oratorio" written in Rio in 1919 - - we need a recording of this important work!
#154 - January 20, 2012 - String Quartet no9 - written during Villa's very busy year of 1945
#155 - January 21, 2012 - Fantasia Concertante for an orchestra of cellos, written for the Violoncello Society - String Quartet no5 . Suffused with folklore, this is the 2nd-most popular String Quartet (after no1).
Quatour Symbolique = Quarteto Simbolico Piano Trio no2, written in 1915 - Poema da crianca e sua mama = Poème de l'enfant et sa mère. Written in Paris in 1923 - Symphony no8 , written in 1950, & dedicated to Villa's NY booster, Olin Downes
#161 - January 30, 2012 - Missa Sao Sebastiao - Suite no2 for Chamber Orchestra, from 1959 - - the only recording ever made is a Brazilian LP from 1972.