The Carnaval das Crianças (Children's Carnival) was dedicated by Villa-Lobos to his nephews, while Francette et Piá was commissioned by publisher Max Eschig for Marguerite Long's piano class.
Performer Biography
Sonia Rubinsky, the pianist on this album, began her musical studies in Brazil at age five and gave her first recital a year later.
Composer Biography
Heitor Villa-Lobos, a Brazilian composer, gained international recognition in the late 1940s and 1950s as an ambassador of Brazilian and Latin American culture.
Compositional Technique
In the Coral movement of Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, Villa-Lobos references the monotonous song of the araponga bird, found in Brazilian forests, through persistent, sharply delineated notes.
Compositional Technique
A pervasive technique in Villa-Lobos's Bachianas series is the use of circle-of-fifths progressions, where the seventh of one chord resolves into the third of the next, creating structural links.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras series, including No. 4 on this album, aimed to blend the compositional techniques of Johann Sebastian Bach with elements of Brazilian musical traditions.
Performer Biography
Sonia Rubinsky's recording of the first volume of Villa-Lobos's piano music was named one of the five best releases of 1999 by Gramophone magazine and nominated for a GRAMMY.
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