Santoro: Fantasias Sul América & Sonata for Solo Violin

Featuring

Cláudia Nascimento
Ovanir Buosi
Arcádio Minczuk
Alexandre Silverio
Fabio Zanon
Luiz Garcia

Fernando Dissenha
Wagner Polistchuk
Filipe Queirós
Olga Kopylova
Davi Graton
Horácio Schaefer
Rodrigo Andrade
Pedro Gadelha
Natália Áurea
Emmanuele Baldini
Cláudio Santoro

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Composition History

The name 'Sul América' in the Fantasias Sul América refers to a Brazilian insurance company that sponsored the competition, not the continent of South America.

Compositional Technique

Claudio Santoro's Fantasias Sul América are characterized by a freely atonal language, frequently drawing on almost complete twelve-note sequences without serial structuring.

Composition History

The 15 Fantasias Sul América were commissioned by the Sul América Young Musicians of Brazil Competition in 1983 as competition pieces.

Album & Artwork

This album is part of "The Music of Brazil" series, an initiative by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote Brazilian composers.

Cultural Impact

The Fantasias Sul América have become standard repertoire in Brazil, often included in conservatory curricula due to their technical and artistic challenges.

Recording & Production

Many works recorded for "The Music of Brazil" series have never been available outside Brazil, and many others are world premiere recordings.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Santoro's early Sonata for Solo Violin and the later Fantasias Sul América show a consistent aesthetic ideal where expressive power was prioritized over technical rules.