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"Floresta do Amazonas" (Amazon Jungle) is a work for soprano soloist, male chorus and orchestra, composed in 1958 by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959).
is based on the book by Argentine Guillermo Enrique Hudson "Green Mansions" , published in 1904 and
which, in turn, takes many elements of indigenous Amazonian legends and mythologies of pre-Columbian times. The protagonist of the story is Rima, a girl-bird who lives in a sacred place of the forest for the Indians and to have supernatural powers is considered a goddess by animals and men who adore and fear alike.
In 1958, on behalf of the producer Metro Goldwyn Mayer
, Villa-Lobos first made a musical version of the novel, composing some songs for the soundtrack of the film " Green Mansions ", also based in the Hudson book, which was directed by Mel Ferrer and starring his wife Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins . The film was a commercial failure and very little of the compound by the Brazilian could be heard after the screen, as the MGM decided to use only a small part of what was written by Villa-Lobos , with the Polish Bronislaw Kaper who adapted and finally signed the definitive soundtrack to the film.
A Villa-Lobos did not sit precisely
well that contempt for his job and kept a lawsuit against the producer, finally reaching an agreement that, in addition to paying its cache, you financed a recording of his composition. Villa-Lobos adapted some of the themes he wrote for this soundtrack and completed "Floresta do Amazonas" as known today, the work recorded in 1959, addressing himself to the Orchestra Symphony of the Air and participation as soprano soloist with the Brazilian Sayão Bidú .
"Floresta do Amazonas" is the last great work he composed
Villa-Lobos, who died shortly after in November 1959 and she completed a series of compositions on the world Indian as were the ballets "Uirapuru" and "Mandu-Carara" or symphonic poem "Ruda" .
's music "Floresta do Amazonas" get move to the magical world of Amazonian culture, where reality and fiction, the natural and the supernatural intertwine in a score where the most vigorous and dramatic moments alternate with lyrical and sentimental, in perfect harmony.
I can hear the fragment Em Plena Floresta " in the historic 1959 recording of the Symphony Orchestra of the Air directed by the very Heitor Villa-Lobos:
Within "Floresta do Amazonas" include
four songs, with lyrics by Dora Vasconcelos , which are usually performed independently in performances and have been frequently adapted for different instruments. This is "Veleiro" , "Cair da Tarde" , "Canção do Amor" and "Melodia Sentimental" , and they wanted to bring the blog today.
First we hear "Veleiro" in the same 1959 recording conducted by Villa-Lobos , with the unmistakable voice of the Brazilian soprano Bidú Sayão :
video
MrRobuso
In Earlier in his career, the soprano Renée Fleming recorded "Floresta do Amazonas" in 1989, the year of its debut at the Metropolitan , accompanied by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra directed by Alfred Heller . I can hear the U.S. playing "Cair da Tarde" :
video
MrRobuso
Again we hear Bidú Sayão and Orchestra Symphony of the Air directed by Heitor Villa-Lobos , this time playing the beautiful theme "Canção do Amor" :
video MrRobuso
Finally, Maria Jose Montiel who plays what is possibly the most famous piece Floresta do Amazonas ", it is "Melodia Sentimental" . Can be heard in a version for voice and piano including disk "Modinha" , dedicated to Brazilian songs, recorded by the Madrid accompanied by pianist Luiz de Moura Castro :
MrRobuso video
is based on the book by Argentine Guillermo Enrique Hudson "Green Mansions" , published in 1904 and
which, in turn, takes many elements of indigenous Amazonian legends and mythologies of pre-Columbian times. The protagonist of the story is Rima, a girl-bird who lives in a sacred place of the forest for the Indians and to have supernatural powers is considered a goddess by animals and men who adore and fear alike. In 1958, on behalf of the producer Metro Goldwyn Mayer
, Villa-Lobos first made a musical version of the novel, composing some songs for the soundtrack of the film " Green Mansions ", also based in the Hudson book, which was directed by Mel Ferrer and starring his wife Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins . The film was a commercial failure and very little of the compound by the Brazilian could be heard after the screen, as the MGM decided to use only a small part of what was written by Villa-Lobos , with the Polish Bronislaw Kaper who adapted and finally signed the definitive soundtrack to the film. A Villa-Lobos did not sit precisely
well that contempt for his job and kept a lawsuit against the producer, finally reaching an agreement that, in addition to paying its cache, you financed a recording of his composition. Villa-Lobos adapted some of the themes he wrote for this soundtrack and completed "Floresta do Amazonas" as known today, the work recorded in 1959, addressing himself to the Orchestra Symphony of the Air and participation as soprano soloist with the Brazilian Sayão Bidú . "Floresta do Amazonas" is the last great work he composed
Villa-Lobos, who died shortly after in November 1959 and she completed a series of compositions on the world Indian as were the ballets "Uirapuru" and "Mandu-Carara" or symphonic poem "Ruda" . 's music "Floresta do Amazonas" get move to the magical world of Amazonian culture, where reality and fiction, the natural and the supernatural intertwine in a score where the most vigorous and dramatic moments alternate with lyrical and sentimental, in perfect harmony.
I can hear the fragment Em Plena Floresta " in the historic 1959 recording of the Symphony Orchestra of the Air directed by the very Heitor Villa-Lobos:
Within "Floresta do Amazonas" include
four songs, with lyrics by Dora Vasconcelos , which are usually performed independently in performances and have been frequently adapted for different instruments. This is "Veleiro" , "Cair da Tarde" , "Canção do Amor" and "Melodia Sentimental" , and they wanted to bring the blog today. First we hear "Veleiro" in the same 1959 recording conducted by Villa-Lobos , with the unmistakable voice of the Brazilian soprano Bidú Sayão :
video
MrRobuso
In Earlier in his career, the soprano Renée Fleming recorded "Floresta do Amazonas" in 1989, the year of its debut at the Metropolitan , accompanied by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra directed by Alfred Heller . I can hear the U.S. playing "Cair da Tarde" :
video
MrRobuso
Again we hear Bidú Sayão and Orchestra Symphony of the Air directed by Heitor Villa-Lobos , this time playing the beautiful theme "Canção do Amor" :
video MrRobuso
Finally, Maria Jose Montiel who plays what is possibly the most famous piece Floresta do Amazonas ", it is "Melodia Sentimental" . Can be heard in a version for voice and piano including disk "Modinha" , dedicated to Brazilian songs, recorded by the Madrid accompanied by pianist Luiz de Moura Castro :
MrRobuso video
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