Saxophonist Branford Marsalis will be joined onstage by conductor Gil Jardim and Philarmonia Brasileira for a special performance, featuring the work of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, as well ...

Albeniz and Villa-LobosPianist Christina Ortiz plays three short pieces by Isaac Albeniz: "Cadiz," from Op. 92; and "Cordoba" and "Seguidillas," both from Op. 232. And we hear an encore from Ortiz as ...

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote his only guitar concerto in 1951 for Andres Segovia, the most famous classical guitarist in the world, originally calling it "Fantasia Concertante." ...

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a remarkably prolific composer, but in the United States he is known mainly for his guitar music, his “Bachianas Brasileiras” a set of Brazilian-flavored glosses on Bach and a ...

Most composers spend the early part of their lives in conservatories of music, where they learn to write potted fugues and hothouse symphonies. But no conservatory ever held Brazil’s bouncing, fiery ...

“Having been invited many times . . . to realize over there, under my own conducting, some concerts with my symphonic works, I am now organizing the respective plan. . . .” In other, less fancy words: ...

As cliché as it may seem for a classical guitar player, my "First Love" would be a tie between Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez (yes, the one you hear all the time!) and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ ...

Prole do bebê, Book I Marcelo Bratke, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer Suite infantil No. 1 Marcelo Bratke, Piano Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer Suite infantil No. 2 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer ...

How many shows has Heitor Villa-Lobos written? Heitor Villa-Lobos has written 1 shows including Magdalena (Composer).

Heitor Villa-Lobos (Rio de Janeiro, March 5, 1887 – Rio de Janeiro, November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, pianist and guitarist, described as "the most significant creative ...

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