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[8.573923] Images of Brazil (micro-trailer) - GUARNIERI: Violin Sonata No. 4: 2nd movt

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Channel: Naxos Music · 2018 · Music

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This recording showcases the breadth and variety of Brazilian music by focusing on composers who explore traditional styles and use native forms, such as the bossa nova, chôro, frevo and samba, combined with neo-Romanticism, Modernism and jazz. Looking beyond cultural stereotypes, it includes Camargo Guarnieri’s grandly Romantic Violin Sonata No. 4 and a violin arrangement of one of Villa-Lobos’s most colourful character pieces, alongside contemporary works that explore nature painting, song, and the Carnival—offering an abundance of vibrancy, dance, languorous rhythms and joyful wit.

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Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907–1993): Violin Sonata No. 4 (1956)

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was a mid-century composer and conductor: he is considered by many to be the second-most influential and internationally recognised Brazilian composer (after Villa-Lobos). Born and based in São Paulo, he pursued a varied career: he was the chief conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and director of the São Paulo Conservatory, while writing many symphonies, piano and violin concertos, and chôros (Brazilian traditional songs) for orchestra. His Violin Sonata No. 4 is a grand, Romantic-style work, large and ambitious in scope. The first movement, Energico ma espressivo, blends driving rhythms with the sound of open fourths and fifths. The second movement, Intimo, features a lullaby in the violin with subtle commentary in the piano: in the middle section, dissonant harmonies and violin tremolo create an atmosphere of tension, before returning to the tender music of the opening section. The last movement, Allegro appassionato, is by turns stormy and lyrical, but once again, the melodies have a rhythmic underpinning that is strongly influenced by Brazilian traditional music – in this case, the chôro. This underlying metric pattern provides a kind of rhythmic ostinato, while the melodic figure of a descending fourth followed by a descending second provides a kind of idée fixe and generates much of the melodic material.

Album release date: December 2018

View album info: https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573923

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