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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
8 Mar 2014, Barbican, London
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO 2013-14 Season Total Immersion: Villa-Lobos

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Total Immersion: Villa-Lobos
Sat 8 Mar 2014 Concert Hall
Total Immersion: Villa-Lobos
Total Immersion: Villa-Lobos

Programme

      • Uirapuru
      • Descobrimento do Brasil – Primeira missa no Brasil
      • Bachianas Brasileiras No 5
      • Chôros No. 8, for two pianos and orchestra
      • Symphony No. 9
      • Chôros No. 10 'Rasga o coração'

Concert Information

The first Parisian performance of Chôros 10 provoked a storm, one critic writing, ‘it is an art ... to which we must give a new name.' This exciting piece uses a chorus instrumentally in furiously contrapuntal rhythmic patter, brass and wind providing bizarre bird calls and monkey chatter. There's no doubt Villa-Lobos was an iconoclast whose raw, zestful music gave expression to a vibrant new polyglot culture. Twice thrown out of the conservatoire he took as much from his experience as a café musician as he did from his beloved Bach. We welcome Celso Antunes from Sao Paolo to conduct the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers, and soprano Anu Komsi, who is soloist in the popular and beautiful Bachiana brasileira No. 5.