Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Turibio Santos - Villa Lobos (1971)

Hello, Good Evening! I was browsing past statistics today and I noticed those few classical music albums releases in the past month had a great interest of our community. I'm talking about Encontro, the collaboration between Clara Sverner, Turibio Santos, Paulo Moura and Olivia Byington, Turibio Santos first LP for Caravelle and Maria Lucia Godoy, O Canto da Amazonia with Neco's guitar. The numbers are really surprising with Maria Lucia Godoy and Turibio Santos being the leaders. Let's make Loronix goes classical again.

This is Turibio Santos - Villa Lobos (1971), for MIS and issued by RCA Victor, the second Turibio Santos tribute to the Brazilian Maestro Heitor Villa Lobos, recorded in Paris. This is a truly beautiful record, Side A has Turibio Santos accompanied by Orquestra de Camara Jean-Francois Paillard, featuring flute, oboe, sax, celesta and harp, performing Sexteto Mistico, composed by Villa Lobos in 1917. Side B is Turibio Santos guitar performing alone five Villa Lobos preludios. It is hard to say which is the nicest side, but I had a slight preference for Side B, it is very nice to hear Turibio Santos performing alone. I urge Loronixers to feedback this release using comments section. Tracks include:

Personnel

Turibio Santos
(guitar)

Orquestra de Camara Jean-Francois Paillard

Maxence Larrieu
(flute)
Lucien Debray
(oboe)
Henri-Rene Pollin
(sax)
Turibio Santos
(violao)
Francois-Joel Thiolljer
(celesta)
Lily Laskine
(harp)
Jean-Francois Paillard
(direction)

Track List

01 - Concerto Para Violão & Pequena Orquestra (Villa-Lobos)
01 - Alegro Preciso
01 - Andantino
01 - Andante
01 - Cadenza
01 - Allegro Non Troppo

02 - Prelúdios (Villa-Lobos)
02 - Nº 1 em Mi Menor
02 - Nº 2 em Mi Maior
02 - Nº 3 em Lá Menor
02 - Nº 4 em Mi Menor
02 - Nº 5 em Ré Maior