Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 3 'War'; Symphony No. 4 'Victory' / Isaac Karabtchevsky

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2013-03-26

Works: Heitor Villa-Lobos: Symphony no 3, for orchestra & brass, "A Guerra", A. 152; Symphony no 4, for orchestra & brass, "A Vitória", A. 153
Conductors: Karabtchevsky, Isaac
Ensemble: ; Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Villa-Lobos' War and Victory Symphonies were commissioned by the Brazilian government following the end of the country's involvement in World War I. Using very large...continue...
Recording information: Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil (02/05/2012-03/05/2012)....continue...

Villa-Lobos: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 / Karabtchevsky, Sao Paulo SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-09-25

Works: Heitor Villa-Lobos: Symphony no 6, for orchestra, "Sobre a linha das montahnas do Brasil", A. 447; Symphony no 7, for orchestra, A. 458
Conductors: Karabtchevsky, Isaac
Ensemble: ; Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Heitor Villa-Lobos is generally acknowledged as Latin America's foremost nationalist composer and his best known works, such as the Bachianas Brasileiras (Naxos 8.557460-62), have tended...continue...
Recording information: Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil (02/21/2011-03/05/2011)....continue...

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; The Year 1941 / Marin Alsop

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-06-26

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: The Year 1941, suite for orchestra, Op. 90; Symphony no 5 in B flat major, Op. 100
Conductors: Alsop, Marin
Ensemble: ; Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Written in 1944, Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony is one of his greatest and most complete symphonic statements. At its première he himself called it "a symphony...continue...
Recording information: Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil (08/26/2011-08/31/2011)....continue...

Dancas Brasileiras / Levy, Nepomuceno, Villa-Lobos, Spso

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2011-11-03

Works: Alberto Nepomuceno: Garatuja, prelude for orchestra; Série Brasileira; Alexandre Levy: Suíte Brasileira; Heitor Villa-Lobos: Dança frenética, for orchestra, A. 144; Francisco Mign...
Conductors: Minczuk, Roberto
Ensemble: ; Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Dance and Brazilian music are often regarded as more or less synonymous, in the same way that the samba to many of us is Brazilian...continue...
Recording information: Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil (04/2003/12/2003)....continue...