Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes - Amazônia. Villa-Lobos - Glass (2023) [Digital Download 24/96]

Two Brazilian artists pay tribute to Villa-Lobos and the Amazon rainforest… Sebastião Salgado is a world-renowned photographer who has been working since the 1990s to protect and restore the Atlantic forest and water resources of the Rio Doce valley in Brazil. The Italian-Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes is passionate about the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and his symphonic poem Floresta do Amazonas, for which she created a suite for large orchestra and soprano. Together they travel the world to present an exhibition of Salgado's photographs, combined with concerts conducted by Simone in which the photographs are projected, the photographer having associated each musical phrase with one of his images… The music of this monumental project has been recorded with the Philharmonia Zürich and soprano Camila Provenzale. Ten photos by Salgado, each more striking than the last, are included in the booklet that accompanies this recording, which is completed by another tribute to Amazonian nature, by Philip Glass, with an extract from his Aguas da Amazonia.

Tracklist:
01. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: I. A floresta
02. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: II. Em plena floresta
03. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: III. Pássaro da floresta – Canto I
04. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: IV. Dança da natureza
05. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: V. Conspiração e dança guerreira
06. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: VI. Veleiros
07. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: VII. Em caminhos para a caçada
08. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: VIII. Canção do amor
09. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: IX. Melodia sentimental
10. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: X. O fogo na floresta
11. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: XI. Epilogo
12. Glass: Metamorphosis 1 (from Aguas da Amazonia)


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