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Villa-Lobos: Trio for Violin, Viola & Cello (Members of the New York Quartet; Columbia). Whether he uses a full orchestra or limits himself to a mere three instruments, Villa-Lobos pours out ideas and melody as lavishly as rain in the jungles of his native Brazil. The trio teems with...
She stops talking and you notice she has been telling you about the play for a long time, and you have not been writing anything, only watching her talk. You pick up the pencil again, and begin the usual questions again. Her favorite composers are Debussy and Villa Lobos. "I...
The Florida's string sections had strength and clarity, its winds played with ease and flexibility. The full 75-piece orchestra could build to a battering climax and-often a lot more difficult-hush to a whispering pianissimo. The program was conventional, except for one of Brazilian Composer Villa...
Today, to the limit of his pocketbook, the music lover can buy 128 complete recorded operas, from Mozart to Gershwin (the biggest U.S. opera companies can mount only about 20 a season). He can have song cycles by Mahler, rare tone poems by Strauss, tropical novelties by Villa-Lobos, and...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1, ChÔros No. 4 & No. 7 (chambergroups, Werner Janssen conducting; Capitol, 2 sides LP). South America's No. 1 composer writes here for such combinations as eight cellos, three horns and a trombone, five woodwinds and two strings and gong. Typical Villa...