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This recording showcases the breadth and variety of Brazilian music by focusing on composers who explore traditional styles and use native forms, such as the bossa nova, chôro, frevo and samba, combined with neo-Romanticism, Modernism and jazz. Looking beyond cultural stereotypes, it includes Camargo Guarnieri’s grandly Romantic Violin Sonata No. 4 and a violin arrangement of one of Villa-Lobos’s most colourful character pieces, alongside contemporary works that explore nature painting, song, and the Carnival—offering an abundance of vibrancy, dance, languorous rhythms and joyful wit.

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Ernani Aguiar (b. 1950): Meloritmias No. 4 (1987)

Ernani Aguiar is another composer with a connection to Brazil’s northeastern region and a varied resumé; he was born in Pétropolis, and is currently a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janiero, as well as a choral conductor and musicologist. In the late 1970s and 1980s he wrote a series of works for solo instruments called Meloritmias (for flute, cello, bassoon, violin and viola). His Meloritmias No. 4 for violin, written in 1987, is suffused with folk idioms. These are evident in the dance-like rhythm of the Allegro first movement. The drone of open strings accompanying the melody in the Lento second movement recalls a rebec (fiddle). Finally, the last movement, titled Tempo de Frevo, is influenced by the frevo tradition in northeastern Brazil where dancers perform at Carnival with small, brightly coloured umbrellas. The fast-flowing, jazzy brass band music that traditionally accompanies frevo performance is recalled here by the offbeat accent patterns and short phrase lengths in the solo violin.

Album release date: December 2018

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