Nelson Freire: Brasileiro

Nelson Freire

Barroso Neto: Minha Terra Fernandez, O L: Três Estudos em forma de sonatina, Op. 62 Guarnieri, C: Dança Negra Ponteio No. 24 Toccata Levy, A: Tango Brasileiro Mignone: Valse élégante Quatro Peças Brasileiras: Maroca (No. 1) Congada (Danca brasileira) Oswald, H: Valse Lente Santoro: Paulistana Nos. 1 Toccata Villa-Lobos: Carnaval das Crianças (Children's Carnival) Chôros No. 5 'Alma Brasileira' for piano A Mare Encheu Valsa da Dor Saudades das Selvas Brasilieras (Longong for the Barzilian Forests) Pobre Cega (Cirandinha No. 5) A Canoa virou A Lenda do Caboclo A Prole do Bebê, book 2: O Gatinho de Papelão New York Skyline

Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire’s eagerly awaited new album, Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos & Friends, pays tribute to his country’s greatest composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, upon the 125th anniversary of his birth. In containing Freire’s personal choice of rarely recorded pieces by seven other lesser-known Brazilian composers whose music helped shape his artistic personality during his formative early years, the album also offers a sonic “portrait of the pianist as a young man”. Comprising works that roughly span the seventy or so years of Villa-Lobos’s own lifetime, Freire’s chosen repertoire chronicles the efforts of three generations of Brazilian composers to forge a recognisably national musical language out of an amalgam of European influences and indigenous folk and popular styles. In combination with his trademark technical mastery and legendary sense of melodic line, Nelson Freire’s quintessentially Latin American temperament and innate sense of rhythmic ease ensure that he brings a uniquely authentic touch to the rarely heard piano music of his native land.

Price: $15.98