Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)
Movements
i Ária, ii Dança
Notes
Villa-Lobos (1887 – 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as “the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music”.
The Bachianas Brasileiras are a series of nine suites written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent a fusion of Brazilian folk and popular music on the one hand and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt to freely adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music. Number 5 is scored for soprano and orchestra of cellos.
