Heitor Villa-Lobos: Choros Nos. 8 & 9 - Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra / Kenneth Schermerhorn

1. Chôros No. 8, for 2 pianos & orchestra, A. 208
Composed by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Performed by Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
2. Chôros No. 9, for orchestra, A. 232
Composed by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Performed by Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Choros Nos. 8 & 9 - Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra / Kenneth Schermerhorn,Heitor Villa-Lobos,Kenneth Schermerhorn,Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra,Marco Polo,Classical

Average customer rating: Brazilian exotica An exceptionally brave performance Exotic Villa Lobos from his french years

Villa-Lobos: Chôros Nos. 8 and 9 Kenneth Schermerhorn Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Villa-Lobos, Heitor | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Villa-Lobos: Choros 1-7 Villa-Lobos: Chôros No.11 Villa-Lobos: Forest of the Amazon Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras (Complete) Villa-Lobos: Symphonies 4 & 12 / St. Clair ASIN: B00005NUOP Release Date: 2001-10-16

Tracks:

1. Choros No.8
2. Choros No.9

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Villa-Lobos wrote 14 Chôros, substantial works rooted in Brazilian popular music. As you might expect, the Eighth and Ninth of the series are drenched in exotic tonal colors and alive with exciting rhythms. No. 8 features an array of conventional and unconventional percussion instruments including rattles, scrapers, and the caracaxa, which opens the piece. It's full of lively tunes as well and has an important piano part. No. 9 was composed four years later, in 1929. It opens with a riot of color, tapering down to a fascinating section for brass and winds over an obsessively repeated rhythm and a bassoon solo that's a twin to the start of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Like its predecessor, Chôros No. 9 is an endlessly enjoyable work, and it gets a bang-up performance from Schermerhorn and the Hong Kong musicians. Their command of the idiom makes you swear you're hearing a Brazilian band. Once available on the Marco Polo label, it shouldn't be missed in this Naxos budget re-release. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

Brazilian exotica.......2007-06-05

The choros was - and possibly still is - a popular form for street musicians in Rio de Janeiro which inspired Villa-Lobos to write music in a characteristic Brazilian idiom. It is hard to imagine these works, with their need for a full orchestra, being played in the streets of any city but the combination of percussion and complex rhythms certainly evoke an image of the variety of ethnic origins which form the culture of Brazil. I have not heard these pieces before and so have little to compare them with. Certainly the Hong Kong P.O. enters enthusiastically into the spirit of the music - perhaps someone more well-versed with Brazilian music would be better placed to comment on the authenticity of the performance; to me it seems to convey very well the mood of tropical South America. I would recommend this CD to anyone with an interest in 20th century music, particularly that of Stravinsky, who might well have written works like this if he had spent time in Brazil.

An exceptionally brave performance.......2002-07-18

Until recently this performance was available on a Marco Polo full-priced CD. At Naxos prices it is exceptional value for money so it gets the 5 stars.
Both these Choros are among Villa-Lobos' most difficult works and it is to the credit of Schermerhorn that he keeps the orchestra under control at all, let alone so well. There are moments when it seems to teeter on the edge of fragmentation but thankfully all goes well and, in some ways, this adds to the thrill of the performance! The recording, made in the early eighties, is excellent and well balanced.
However, I would not recommend it to someone approaching Villa-Lobos for the first time. Most of his orchestral Choros are complex affairs with rhythms and melodic interplays that (while not being Avant-Garde) challenge ones musical sensibilities and this one does so to the limit. If you're brave, fine! But otherwise I would recommend the smaller Choros or, for orchestral works, the Symphonies, Amazonia, Forest of the Amazon or The Discovery of Brazil.

Exotic Villa Lobos from his french years.......2002-04-07

Even before the Rite of Spring-ish bassoon lines in choros 9, the influence of Stravinsky and others working in France during the time Villa-Lobos was there can be heard strongly. These pieces still manage to sound quite original because of the immense percussion, and of course the choros rythyms. These are colorful, exciting, and typically brazilian in the composer's style. Although I don't know of other recordings of this to compare it to, the performance sounds magnificent. My only complaint is that the whole cd is just over forty minutes in length. I keep wanting more!

Average customer rating: Excellent Recording, interesting interpretation

Villa-Lobos: Choros No.1/Etude Nos. 1-12/Prelude Nos. 1-5 Manufacturer: Analekta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Villa-Lobos, Heitor | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Giuliani: Concerto for guitar in A Brouwer: Guitar Music: Danza Caracteristica/Elogio De La Danza/El Decameron Negro/Tres Danzas Concertantes/Rito De Los Orishas ASIN: B000009CX3 Release Date: 2007-04-06

Tracks:

1. Choros No.1
2. Etude No.1
3. Etude No.2
4. Etude No.3
5. Etude No.4
6. Etude No.5
7. Etude No.6
8. Etude No.7
9. Etude No.8
10. Etude No.9
11. Etude No.10
12. Etude No.11
13. Etude No.12
14. Prld No.1
15. Prld No.2
16. Prld No.3
17. Prld No.4
18. Prld No.5

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Recording, interesting interpretation.......2000-06-07

I found the recording and the tone of the guitar superb. Some of the interpretions I found exceptional, others I've heard better from Barrueco's "300 Years of Guitar" CD. Having said that, I found the musicianship top rate. I wish the CD also contained the Suite Populaire Bresillienne, but it is a good collection nontheless. This is a very difficult CD to find, but I think it is worth the search.

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Latin American Guitar Works Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Villa-Lobos, Heitor | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Leo Brouwer: Guitar Music, Vol. 1 Villa-Lobos: Complete Music for Solo Guitar El Diablo Suelto - Guitar Music of Venezuela The Great Paraguayan: Guitar Music of Barrios Guitar Music of Argentina ASIN: B00062IEHI Release Date: 2004-10-12

Tracks:

1. Choro No.1
2. La Catedral - Pepe Romero
3. Danza Paraguaya No.1
4. Waltz, Op.8 No.3 - Alexander-Sergei Ramirez
5. Una Limosna Por El Amor De Dios - Alexander-Sergei Ramirez
6. El Colibri - Pepe Romero
7. Cancion From Tres Canciones Populares Mexicanas - Andres Segovia
8. Valse Criollo - John Williams
9. Cancion De Cuna (Berceuse)
10. Ojos Brujos
11. Mazurka-Choro
12. Schottish-Choro
13. Valsa-Choro
14. Gavota-Choro
15. Chorinho

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Heitor Villa-Lobos: Choros Nos. 8 & 9 - Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra / Kenneth Schermerhorn Heitor Villa-Lobos , Kenneth Schermerhorn , and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Manufacturer: Marco Polo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Villa-Lobos, Heitor | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000045S5 Release Date: 1994-07-14

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Heitor Villa-Lobos: Choros Nos. 8 & 9 Manufacturer: Marco Polo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Villa-Lobos, Heitor | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000024OVP Release Date: 1985-01-01

Tracks:

1. Choros No. 8
2. Choros No. 9

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Music for Relaxation: Vivaldi's Four Seasons Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Giuliani, Mauro | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Villa-Lobos, Heitor | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Vivaldi | Vivaldi, Antonio | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Instruments | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Easy Listening | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000066C3N Release Date: 2002-05-07

Tracks:

1. Four Seasons: Spring: Allegro, Largo E Pianissimo, Allegro/Summer: ...
2. Violin Concerto No. 1, Andante
3. Violin Concerto in D Minor

Tracks:

1. Symphony No. 41: Andante Cantabile
2. Symphony No. 9, New World: Largo
3. Concerto for Piano No. 2 in F Minor Op. 21: Larghetto
4. Trerei
5. Fantasie Impromptu
6. Symphony No. 5: Andante Cantabile
7. Symphony in C: Adagio

Average customer rating: My favorite Pepe Romero disc...

La Paloma, Spanish And Latin American Favourites Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Villa-Lobos, Heitor | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Romero, Pepe | ( R ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000004138 Release Date: 1991-09-12

Tracks:

1. El Colibri
2. Waltz in G, Op.8 No.4
3. La Paloma
4. Choro No.1
5. La Catedral
6. Tres Canciones Populares Mexicanas: No.1 in E
7. Tres Canciones Populares Mexicanas: No.2 in A
8. Tres Canciones Populares Mexicanas: No.3 in E
9. Tango Angelita
10. Valses Venezolanos: No.1 in D
11. Valses Venezolanos: No.2 in e
12. Valses Venezolanos: No.3 in e/E 'Valse criollo'
13. Valses Venezolanos: No.4 in a
14. El Marabino
15. Elogio de la Danza: Lento
16. Elogio de la Danza: Obstinato
17. Dos Temas Populares Cubanos: Cancion de Cuna: Berceuse
18. Dos Aires Populares Cubanos: Guajira criolla
19. Dos Aires Populares Cubanos: Zapateado
20. Sounds of Bells
21. La Cumparsita

Customer Reviews:

My favorite Pepe Romero disc..........2004-09-30

This CD is just incredible. Mr. Romero's flawless technique and sensitivity are ever-present. The music is some of the most spectacular that the guitar has to offer.

This CD is not, however, worth $80. You can find this CD. Not here on Amazon, but it's around. Don't pay 80 bucks for it. No CD is worth that price.

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The Spanish Guitar (Box Set) Manufacturer: Delta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Piazzolla, Astor | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ramirez, Ariel | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tarrega | Tarrega, Francisco | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Villa-Lobos, Heitor | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Serenades & Divertimentos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music | Divertimentos Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Barcarolles | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001VWK Release Date: 1996-10-21

Track Listings:

1. Hommage to Fritz Kreisler Vol.1
2. Hugo Alfven: 24 Songs
3. Italian String Quartets
4. Jersild: Vocal & Instrumental Works
5. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1/Tragic Overture
6. Koechlin: Paysages et Marines Op63; Pieces Op178
7. Lassus: Magnificat; Ave Maria
8. Late Piano Works
9. Leos Janácek: Orchestral Works - Danube / Incidental Music to Schluck & Jau / Moravian Dances / Suite, Op. 3
10. Love Is Blue: Music for Lonely Lovers

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SCHUBERT: Der Tod und das Mädchen SCHOSTAKOVITCH: Chamber Symphony Op. 110a (Salzburg Chamber Soloists)

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Music: Absolute Favorite Christmas

Skull Ring [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics] [Import]

Soul Machine

The Face of God

Sacred Music of Amy Beach

The Journey: Destiny's Child [Box set] [Import]

Sabio [Import]

Real Feelness

Say What You Mean [Import]

Super Girl [CD-single] [Import]

Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 'Scottish' & 4 'Italian'

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