IDAGIO | Villa-Lobos: Piano Music – Prole do bebê 1 & 2; Rudepoema 00602458130454

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Marc-André Hamelin
Heitor Villa-Lobos

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Composer's Artistic Vision

The Prole do Bebê suites, while evoking childhood, are not meant for children to play, but rather are recollections of childhood, similar to Schumann's Kinderszenen.

Composer Biography

Despite composing around two hundred works for piano, Villa-Lobos was reportedly a poor pianist who couldn't play a simple scale correctly.

Composer Biography

Heitor Villa-Lobos is considered the foremost composer Brazil has ever produced, putting his homeland on the world musical map.

Composition History

Rudepoema, Villa-Lobos's largest and most virtuosic solo piano work, is a musical portrait of Arthur Rubinstein, the pianist who encouraged Villa-Lobos to study in Paris.

Notable Performances

O Polichinelo was the last piece Arthur Rubinstein, a renowned pianist, ever played in public, as his final encore in London in 1976.

Composition History

The suite As Três Marias was composed at the suggestion of Edgar Varèse, a composer Villa-Lobos met in New York in 1939.

Composition History

Villa-Lobos once composed an orchestral piece, New York Skyline, by projecting a photograph onto manuscript paper and using its outline as a melodic line.