Hauser and Petrit Çeku performing Aria (Cantilena) from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Heitor Villa - Lobos at the Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, October 2017.
Aria from the Fifth Bahiana by eitor Villa-Lobos(1887-1959)
Villa Lobos will remain one of the great figures of contemporary music and the greatest pride of Brazil. When you listen to the Aria from "Brazilian bahiana" # 5, it seems that it was created by someone from the classics of the past centuries. But its author, eitor Vila Lobos — is our contemporary: he lived in the first half of the twentieth century in Brazil. He was very fond of Bach, in whose works he heard the universal musical principle — the same as it sounded in the folk songs of his beloved homeland. To join in the work of classical and Brazilian folk music — that was the dream Villa-Lobos, and he embodied it in "Brazilian bachiana". There are nine of them, and each has its own character, and in each you can hear the folk tunes of Brazil-either lyrical or humorous…
