Villa-Lobos, Heitor > BBC Singers

Alma Brasileira - Music of Villa-Lobos / Tilson Thomas

1 CD / RCA Records / 1997-01-14

Works: Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras no 4, for piano & orchestra, A. 424; Bachiana brasileira no 5 for Soprano and 8 Cellos; Bachianas Brasileiras no 7, for orchestra, A. 432; Bachianas Brasilei...
Performers: BBC Singers; Coleman, Damon; East, Alexander; Fleming, Renee; Freudigman, Kenneth; Meir, Eran; Ritchie, Brad; Smits, Pamela; Vos, Robert; Zappi, Sofia
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson
Ensemble: BBC Singers; New World Symphony

"...By far the best known of the Bachianas Brasileiras is, of course, No. 5, whose Aria demonstrates the composer's ability to spin a haunting long-flowing...continue...