Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Two Modernists in Paris


Villa-Lobos and Edgard Varese met in Paris in 1929, and soon became best friends. I'll be adding some posts in the next few days about their interactions, and how two great modernist composers explored new musical ideas and new sounds together.

Here is a poster from an important concert at the Maison Gaveau Salle des Concerts on May 30th, 1927.  Opening and closing the concert were a couple of ground-breaking works: Amazonas, the 1917 ballet by Villa-Lobos, and Ameriques, a large-scale work written by Varese in 1918-21 and revised in 1927.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Award-Winning Miloš Karadaglić Plays Villa-Lobos



Miloš Karadaglić, who recently won the Specialist Classical Chart Award and the Young Artist of the Year awards at the 2011 Gramophone Classical Music Awards, plays the first Villa-Lobos Prelude.