Villa-Lobos on Cultura FM: May 2009

Here are Villa-Lobos performances upcoming on Cultura FM from Sao Paulo. Listen here on the Internet. Times are local Sao Paulo times, one hour ahead of EST.

May 5:
13:00 DELICATESSEN com Teresa Lima:
Louis SPOHR - Quinteto em dó menor para piano, flauta, clarinete, trompa e fagote Op. 52. Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano). Quinteto Residenz Munich./ Frederic CHOPIN - Polonaise em dó menor Op. 40. n° 2. Artur Rubinstein (piano). / Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Bachianas brasileiras n° 1. Mstislav Rostropovitch (violoncelo). Ensemble de violoncellistes.

May 9:
10:00 CIRANDA - Academia Brasileira de Música:
VILLA-LOBOS - Fantasia Concertante para piano, clarinete e cello. Paquito D'Rivera (clarinete). Pablo Zinger (piano). Gustavo Tavares (violoncelo). / Edino KRIEGER - Prelúdio e Fuga. Beatriz Balzi (piano). / Osvaldo LACERDA - Andante. Wagner Politschuk (trombone). Káthia Bonna (piano). / Brasiliana n° 8. Paola Tarditi e Silvia Maltese (piano a quatro mãos).

May 13:
07:00 DESPERTE COM OS CLÁSSICOS:
Pjotr Iyich TCHAIKOVSKY - Dumka (Cena Rústica Russa), op. 59. Lang Lang (piano)./ Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Bachianas Brasileiras n° 2. Orquestra Filarmônica Real Britânica. Reg.: Enrique Bátiz. / Jean SIBELIUS - O Cisne de Tuonela. Orquestra de Filadélfia. Reg.: Eugen Ormandy. / Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART - ária "Prigionier che fa ritorno, do oratório "Betulia Liberata", K. 118. Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto). Moscou Virtuosi. Dir.: Vladimir Spivakov. / Hekel TAVARES - Modinha, primeiro movimento do concerto para piano em formas brasileiras. Arnaldo Cohen (piano). Orquestra Sinfônica Petrobrás Pró-Música. Reg.: Roberto Tibiriçá.

May 14:
13:00 DELICATESSEN com Teresa Lima:
Joseph HAYDN - Sonata n° 54. Hob.XVI: 40. Jenõ Jandó (piano). / Henryk WIENIAWSKI - Polonaise em ré maior Op. 4. Konstanty Andrzej Kulka (violino). Jerzy Marchwinski (piano). / Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Concerto para piano n° 2. Op. 19. Till Fellner (piano). The Academy of St. Martin in the fields. Reg.: Sir Neville Marriner. / Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Choros n° 4. Vitali Bouianovski. Pavel Evstigneev. Anatoli Soukoroukov. Victor Benglovski.

May 17:
10:00 ENCONTRO COM O MAESTRO com João Mauricio Galindo:
Villa-Lobos para iniciantes - (repeated May 18 at 18:00)

May 22:
13:00 DELICATESSEN com Teresa Lima:
Anton ARENSKY - Suíte para dois pianos n° 4 Op. 62. Stephen Coombs e Ian Munro (pianos). / Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Concerto para piano n° 4. Cristina Ortiz (piano). Royal Philarmonic Orchestra. Reg.: Miguel Gómez-Martínez. / Bohuslav MARTINU - Sonata para violoncelo e piano n° 3. Steven Isserlis (violoncelo). Peter Evans (piano).

May 26:
21:00 SALA DE CONCERTO:
Mozart CAMARGO GUARNIERI - Concerto nº 1 para violino e orquestra. Luiz Felipe (violino). Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo. Reg.: Lutero Rodrigues. / Mozart CAMARGO GUARNIERI - Concerto nº 2 para violino e orquestra. Luiz Felipe (violino). Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo. Reg.: Lutero Rodrigues. / Mozart CAMARGO GUARNIERI - Choro para violino e orquestra. Luiz Felipe (violino). Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo. Reg.: Lutero Rodrigues. / Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Concerto nº 1 para piano e orquestra. Cristina Ortiz (piano). Orquestra Filarmônica Real. Reg.: Miguel Gómez-Martinez.

May 27:
15:00 TARDE CULTURA - Música e Notícia:
Entre outras peças, Johann Nepomuk HUMMEL - Septeto Militar op.114. Conjunto Capricórnio./ Joseph HAYDN - Sonata nº 36 para piano. Jenö Jandó (piano)./ Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Bachianas Brasileiras nº 2. Orquestra Sinfônica de Cincinnati. Reg.: Jesús Lópes-Cobos./ Jean SIBELIUS - Serenata, op. 69 n° 1. Ida Haendel (violino). Orquestra Sinfônica de Bournemouth. Dir.: Paavo Berglund.

May 30:
10:00 CIRANDA - Academia Brasileira de Música:
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Concerto para violão e pequena orquestra. Roland Dyens (violão). Ensemble Instrumental Jean-Walter Audoli. Reg.: Jean-Walter Audoli.

Gismonti Plays Villa-Lobos

All Villa-Lobos lovers must have Gismonti's album Trem Caipira in their collections.

Fantasia Concertante in Karlsruhe

From a concert in Karlsruhe earlier this month (April 6, 2009), a spirited performance of a movement from this chamber piece written in 1953. Aloysio Fagerlande, bassoon, Paulo Sergio Santos, clarinet, Fany Solter, piano

Chamber Music MP3s

The Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet website has an impressive archive of recorded performances, which you can download in MP3 form. It includes four important Villa-Lobos chamber works:

• Choros #02 for flute & clarinet (influenced, perhaps, by Villa's friend Edgard Varese?)
• Choros #07 for seven instruments
• Trio for clarinet, oboe, & bassoon
• Quinteto em forma de Choros
  

Orquestra de São Paulo 2009 US Tour

In October the Orquestra de São Paulo begins its 2009 Tour of the U.S. The CAMI website has some preliminary information. I'm anxious to see the programme for the tour. The Tour Press Release mentions that conductor Kazem Abdullah (whose career got a big boost when he took over for James Levine at a Metropolitan Opera performance of Gluck’s Orfeo last January) will include music by Villa-Lobos and Camargo Guarnieri. Another highlight will be a brand new percussion concerto written for Evelyn Glennie by Marlos Nobre.

Naturally, this announcement caused a bit of a stir in Brazil, where the controversy over the firing of John Neschling still simmers. See this story at the Concerto website.

Villa-Lobos: Uma Vida em Sete Notas

From April 16 to June 7, 2009, Shopping Villa-Lobos in Sao Paulo will be the scene of an important exhibition: "Villa-Lobos: Uma Vida em Sete Notas". Each week of the display has a theme, and each represents one of the "7 notes" of the title.

The exhibition has an online version: a very flashy Flash website, which is worth the wait to load.

Here's a picture of a portion of the exhibition from VivaMusica:

Face of a Nation

Librarians have access to shelves & shelves of books and other forms of information, but don't always have much time to read. That's my only excuse for missing Philip Clark's article on Villa-Lobos in the September 2008 issue of Gramophone: "Face of a nation" (p. 44-47).



So pop down to your local library and dig up the September 2008 issue. Luckily, you can read the full article online at the excellent Gramophone website, with only the occasional optical character recognition glitch marring Clark's excellent prose.

The list of essential CDs is excellent: Norbert Kraft for the guitar music (though he should be referred to as a Canadian rather than an American guitarist); Sonia Rubinsky for the piano music; Neschling + SPSO's Choros; Minczuk + SPSO's Bachianas Brasileiras; and the St.Clair + Stuttgart Orchestra Symphonies.

One of the best things about the article are the quotes Clark gets from John Neschling, who isn't afraid of being controversial:

"Villa-Lobos didn't give a damn whether musicans could play his music..."

and

"He was a terrible conductor and did his reputation tremendous harm!"

The latter quote is probably worth a post of its own!

Villa-Lobos String Quartet

The Villa-Lobos String Quartet is off on a significant tour of Southern California and France, with an impressive program of Brazilian music for String Quartet. Learn more at their website (and check out some videos). The mission of this excellent group is "...to spread the work of Villa-Lobos and other great Brazilian composers."

04.19.2009 San Gabriel, California, Loskota Hall
04.25.2009 Orange County, California, Orange County High School
04.27.2009 Azusa, California
05.01.2009 Pasadena, California, Place TBA
05.30.2009 Belfort, France, FIMU, www.fimu.com
05.31.2009 Belfort, France, FIMU
06.01.2009 Belfort, France, FIMU
06.05.2009 Los Angeles, USA

Program:

Villa-Lobos String Quartet n 1
Villa-Lobos String Quartet n 5
Osvaldo Lacerda, Pequena Suite Para Quarteto de Cordas
Guerra-Peixe, Mourao
Alberto Nepomuceno, Serenata
Sivuca, Joao e Maria
Carlos Gardel, Por una Cabeza
Astor Piazzola, Contrabajeando
Astor Piazzola, Muerte del Angel

The View from Inside

This is the kind of video you never used to see...

Villa-Lobos on Radio MEC

The program Sala de Concerto (Fridays at 17:05 Brazil time = 20:05 UTC = 16:05 EDT = 14:05 MDT here in Red Deer) on Rio de Janeiro's Radio MEC will be featuring a number of interesting Villa-Lobos pieces in the next month. Listen online here. The Turibio Santos concert should be a real highlight.

April 24 - O Violão de Villa-Lobos (obras comentadas)

TURÍBIO SANTOS - violão

• Programa:
  CINCO PRELÚDIOS
  1º - Mi menor
  2º - Mi Maior
  3º - Lá menor
  4º - Mi menor
  5º - Ré Maior
• ESTUDOS
  Vários
• SUÍTE POPULAR BRASILEIRA
  Mazurca-Choro
  Schottisch-Choro
  Valsa-Choro
  Gavota-Choro
  Chorinho

May 08 - CLARICE PRIETTO, Mezzo-Soprano
JOSÉ RESCALA, Tenor
Participação especial: KÁTIA BALLOUSSIER – Piano
A PALAVRA CANTADA DE MANUEL BANDEIRA

Programa:

VILLA-LOBOS

O Anjo da Guarda

Modinha – (tenor)

OSVALDO LACERDA

Poemeto Erótico

Valsa Brasileira

Poema retirado de uma noticia de jornal

Felicidade

O Menino Doente

Cantiga I

LORENZO FERNANDEZ

Canção do Mar

JAIME OVALLE

Modinha

Azulão

CAMARGO GUARNIERI

Vai, Azulão

NÊMIA FERNANDEZ

Madrigal

JOSÉ SIQUEIRA

Madrigal

FRANCISCO MIGNONE

Berimbau

Cantiga – (tenor)

D Janaína

O Menino Doente

GUERRA-PEIXE

Vou-me embora pra Pasárgada

EDINO KRIEGER

Desafio – (tenor)

May 15:CELINELENA IETTO, soprano

ELIANE SALEK, mezzo-soprano

PRISCILA BOMFIM, pianista

Programa:

Padre Nosso - Francisco Braga (Dueto)

Amor que partiu - Claudio Santoro (Eliane)

Lundu da marquesa de Santos - H.Villa-Lobos (Eliane)

Acalanto da Rosa - Claudio Santoro (Celinelena)

Teus olhos - Murilo Santos (Celinelena)

Choro urbano - Edmundo Villani-Côrtes (Dueto)

Roseas flores d'Alvorada - anônimo (Eliane)

Lua Branca - Chiquinha Gonzaga (Eliane)

Ave-Maria -Carlos Gomes (Celinelena)

Soneto - Nepomuceno (Celinelena)

Duettino Viens,Mallika - Léo Delibes (ópera Lakmé) (Dueto)

Les Chemins de l'amour - F.Poulenc (Eliane)

Chanson Bohèmme - Bizet (ópera Carmen) (Eliane)

Ária de Delia - Carlos Gomes (óperaFosca ) (Celinelena)

Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour – Offenbach (ópera Os Contos de Hoffmann) (Dueto)

May 30: EDNALDO BORBA, piano

Programa:

F. Chopin

Mazurkas Op. 6:
No. 1 - em F# menor
No. 2 - em C# menor
No. 3 - em E (Vivace)
No. 4 - em Eb menor (Presto, ma non troppo)

F. Chopin

Fantasia Op. 49

F. Schubert

Improvisos Op. 142:
No. 3 - Thema (Andante) mit Variazionen em Bb
No. 4 - Allegro scherzando em F menor

H. Villa-Lobos

Do ciclo brasileiro:

Festa no Sertão.

Aldo Parisot's Yale celebration

The 2008-2009 edition of the Music at Yale Magazine is available online. It includes a fascinating story (on pp. 6-9) about the great cellist Aldo Parisot. He's shown here, in a picture I haven't seen before, with his close friend Heitor Villa-Lobos (channelling, perhaps just a bit, Elvis). Villa wrote the second Cello Concerto, which seems to be in vogue lately, for Parisot in the year that this photo was taken, 1953.

Besides his obvious skills as an instrumentalist, conductor, and teacher, Parisot is an accomplished painter. Check out musicyale's Flickr photostream here. I love the picture of Parisot with one of his paintings, and also, of course, the one of Parisot with one of my favourite jazz artists, Dave Brubeck.

The YouTube Symphony plays BB#9 at Carnegie Hall

That's a pretty tight performance of Bachianas Brasileiras #9 (at the 43:00 mark in this entertaining video), considering these musicians have only been playing together for a couple of days!

Flute Concert in Marseille

The Festival International des Musiques d'Aujourd'hui will be held in Marseille from the 6th to the 26th of May. One of the highlights is an Andrea Ernest Dias flute concert that includes Bachianas Brasileiras #6. This concert program is one of the most interesting I've ever seen; I'd love to be there.

A Visit to the Museu Villa-Lobos

A new YouTube video from the TV Cultura program Vitrine includes some great footage of Villa-Lobos playing the piano and the guitar, and composing. Also, Museu Villa-Lobos Director Turibio Santos shows off the many pictures, scores, and personal effects of the composer you can see up close at the Museum.

YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

It's been fun watching the YouTube Symphony Orchestra come together. Their first public performance is on April 15, at Carnegie Hall. Artistic Advisor & Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas has included a work by Villa-Lobos in this concert, and it looks like it will be the Bachianas Brasileiras #9.

Here is MTT talking with violinist Alexander Barantschik about the fugue from BB #9, which will be a real challenge for the YouTube SO string players with such a short period to practice together!



As MTT says, "Primitive and sophisticated at the same time..."

Apparently, 10 minute clips from the concert will go up on YouTube the day after the concert.

Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires

Orchestras are becoming more adventurous when it comes to programming Villa-Lobos works. It's not just about the Guitar Concerto, a couple of the Bachianas Brasileiras, and the Saxophone Fantasia any more.

Two great Villa-Lobos conductors, Enrique Arturo Diemecke and John Neschling, will be conducting some really interesting works with the Filarmónica de Buenos Aires this season.

Neschling has included Choros #06 in the program of his May 14, 2009 concert (along with Camargo Guarnieri's Encantamiento, and works by Haydn and Sibelius). Of course, Neschling is quite an expert on the Choros series, with his amazing recordings on the BIS label.

Diemecke, who is the Music Director in Buenos Aires, has included two works that are very rare in concert: Uirapuru on July 2, and The Discovery of Brazil on August 6.

[Photo: Miguel Micciche - OFBA. Archivo fotográfico del Teatro Colón]

Last Night of the Proms

Every year I check to see if there are any Villa-Lobos works included in the Proms concerts, and I'm usually disappointed. But yesterday's Proms announcement includes three works on the schedule for 2009: Bachianas Brasileiras #5 with soprano Ailish Tynan and the VL arrangements for cello orchestra of Bach preludes & fugues, in Concert #16 (August 31st); and Choros #10 on the Last Night of the Proms (September 12th). What a great work for the Last Night - I think the crowd will enjoy it!

Photo by Neil Rickards of last year's Last Night, from the Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons licence). Let's see some Brazilian flags this year!

Villa-Lobos Worldwide 2009

Brazilian pianist Marcelo Bratke will be a busy guy in 2009. He's announced a major project to take place during the Ano Villa-Lobos (celebrating the 50th anniversary of Villa's death), "Villa-Lobos Worldwide 2009". The project will include concerts in London, Frankfurt, Berlin, Brussels and Belgrade (modeled after the very successful "Villa-Lobos Event" in New York). As well, Bratke will launch his 2008 DVD Alma Brasileira, start a workshop series "Villa-Lobos para as Crianças do Mundo" (VL for the Children of the World), and film a TV documentary on the life of Villa-Lobos.

If that weren't enough, Bratke will be starting to record an 8-CD series of the complete piano music of Villa-Lobos.

The Villa-Lobos boom continues!

[Marcelo Bratke photo by Romulo Fialdini]

A Samba for Sherlock concluded

Last week I wrote a post about Jô Soares' funny novel A Samba for Sherlock, which takes place in Rio de Janeiro in 1886, the year before Villa-Lobos was born.

I finally got a chance to finish this very entertaining work, full of farce and vivid details about life in the capital of the Brazilian empire. I was disappointed that Soares didn't mention Villa's father, Raul Villa-Lobos, especially since there was a perfect opportunity. Sherlock Holmes chases the unknown villain through the National Library, but loses him due to some digestive problems. It would have been neat to have the librarian Raul poking his head out of an office to see what the commotion was. [The picture below of the National Library, built in 1876, is from the Wikimedia Commons; it's by Jeff Belmonte, and falls under a Creative Commons license.]


In any case, Soares is very much aware of the musical life of the time. Ernesto Nazareth (who Villa-Lobos called "Alma Brasileira", the Soul of Brazil) makes an appearance in the novel, as do the Cuban violinist & composer José Silvestre White Lafitte, and the Brazilian composer & publisher Arthur Napoleão dos Santos. As well, it turns out that Sherlock Holmes' very first visit to the opera was the premiere of Carlos Gomes' Il Guarany, at La Scala, on May 1870).

This is highly recommended for Sherlock Holmes fans (if you don't take offence at the good humoured ribbing of the great detective and his Doctor friend), and especially for its fanciful depiction of the final days of the empire. Just don't believe everything you read!

Marian Anderson & Villa-Lobos

In this week's issue of The New Yorker, Alex Ross writes about Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday 1939 concert on The Mall in Washington DC, on the 70th Anniversary of this important event.

The year before, Anderson met Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro. The two hit it off, and Villa gave the great singer the above arrangement of 'Cantilena', which is in the Penn Library (the second page of the song is also included on the fascinating Penn Library site). The composer later wrote one of his great songs, Poema de Itabira, for Marian Anderson, and dedicated it to her.

Allan Keiler, in Marian Anderson: a singer's journey (University of Illinois Press, 2002), continues the story:

"She was struggling to learn the Poema do Itabira, a difficult work both rhythmically and melodically, for solo voice and orchestra by Villa-Lobos, which she was scheduled to perform at a pair of concerts with Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony in December [1954]. Set to a Portuguese text by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, the Poema protrays the emotionally desperate feelings of de Andrade's characters, orchestrated so as to conjure up the starkness of the desert of Itabira. Anderson had met Villa-Lobos during the war while on a tour of South America. It was with Anderson's voice in mind that Villa-Lobos had composed the Poema several years later, dedicateing the work to Anderson. Never having sung it before, she wanted badly to satisfy the composer." (p. 268)

There doesn't seem to be a surviving recording of Marian Anderson signging this work. Indeed, I've never come across it on CD. Baritone Renato Mismetti gives an impressive performance of the work (in the voice & piano version, with Maximiliano de Brito providing the accompaniment) on this video.

And the Survey Says...

A new article in the Jornal Cruzeiro do Sul (Sorocaba in the State of Sao Paulo) reports that a survey undertaken by the Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição - Ecad (which Google translates as the Central Office of Collection and Distribution) found that the most popular works of Villa-Lobos in Brazil in the last five years were:

1. Bachianas Brasileiras #2
2. Bachianas Brasileiras #5
3. Melodia Sentimental
4. Bachianas Brasileiras #4
5. Valsa da Dor

These are really interesting results. A look at the database of world-wide Villa-Lobos Concerts from the past ten years shows a somewhat different story:

1. Bachianas Brasileiras #5 (139 performances)
2. Bachianas Brasileiras #4 (72)
3. Assobio a Jato (The Jet Whistle) (49)
4. Fantasia for Saxophone (44)
   
5. Bachianas Brasileiras #9 (43)
6. Bachianas Brasileiras #2 (43)
7. Bachianas Brasileiras #1 (39)
8. Bachianas Brasileiras #6 (35)
   
9. Choros #05 (33)
10. Choros #02 (32)
11. Choros #01 (30)
12. Preludes for Guitar (29)
    

One of the problems that comes up in counting Villa-Lobos performances is that the popular guitar works (Choros #01, the Preludes, the Etudes, the Suite Popular Bresilienne) are often not included in the program listings (there are 49 concerts and recitals in the database with only "Works for Guitar"). You only need to look at Villa-Lobos videos on YouTube to see how often these works are played.

In any case, we're in the middle of a major renaissance in both Brazilian and world-wide interest in the music of Villa-Lobos.

Tweeting Villa-Lobos

Villa-Lobos comes to Twitter: check out Tweeting Villa-Lobos.

A Samba for Sherlock

I'm reading the first novel by the Brazilian author Jô Soares called A Samba for Sherlock (the original title was O Xangô de Baker Street - a "Xangô" is an African spirit, and also the title of one of Villa-Lobos's greatest songs). The book, published in 1998, is an amusing pastiche that takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the year 1886 (one year before Villa-Lobos was born). The main characters are the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro, the great detective Sherlock Holmes, his companion Dr. Watson, and the world's greatest (and most beautiful) actress, Sarah Bernhardt [pictured below in a photo from the Wikimedia Commons].


As a Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson fan, I'm really enjoying this very amusing book (though both Englishmen are pretty mercilessly lampooned). The best part, though, is getting a feel for what it was like to be in Rio de Janeiro in the period.

One of the early highlights in the book was the appearance of the great Brazilian feminist and composer Chiquinha Gonzaga. She was born early enough to fight against slavery in Brazil (it was abolished in 1888), but lived long enough (1935) to be a major influence, friend and mentor to Villa-Lobos. She makes a strong impression in Soares' book. I'm waiting to see if Heitor's father Raul Villa-Lobos makes an appearance - he was a minor intellectual who worked at the National Library and got into some problems over national politics.

You might have some trouble tracking this book down. It's available new & used from some Amazon sellers in both the original hardcover and the Vintage paperback.

I'll update this post when I finish the book.

Aldo Parisot Celebration at Yale

Here's a major event: the great cellist Aldo Parisot celebrates 50 years as a member of the Yale School of Music Faculty with a concert featuring the Yale Cellos, on April 20th. Villa-Lobos wrote his second cello concerto for Parisot, who was closely involved in the details of its composition. The concert features the first and fifth Bachianas Brasileiras.

Last October I posted a story about Parisot and Villa-Lobos that somehow got side-tracked in a culinary direction.

Villa-Lobos on Cultura FM: April 2009

Here are Villa-Lobos performances upcoming on Cultura FM from Sao Paulo. Listen here on the Internet. Times are local Sao Paulo times, one hour ahead of EST.

April 2:
06:00 A ESCRITA DE CÂMARA - Solistas e pequenas formações:
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Quarteto de cordas n° 6. Bernardo Bessler e Michel Bessler (violinos). Marie-Christine Springuel (viola). Alceu Reis (violoncelo). / Bela BARTOK - Quarteto de cordas n° 1 op. 7. Gabor Takacs-Nagy e Karoly Schranz (violinos). Gabor Ormai (viola). Andras Fejer (cello).

April 3:
06:00 A ESCRITA DE CÂMARA - Solistas e pequenas formações:
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Quarteto de cordas n° 4 e n° 5. Bernardo Bessler e Michel Bessler (violinos). Marie-Christine Springuel (viola). Alceu Reis (violoncelo). / Luigi BOCCHERINI - Quarteto de cordas n° 1 op. 32. Jaap Schroder e Alda Stuurop (violinos). Wiel Peeters (viola). Wouter Moeller (violoncello).

April 4:
06:00 A ESCRITA DE CÂMARA - Solistas e pequenas formações:
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Quarteto n° 12 e n° 13. Bernardo Bessler e Michel Bessler (violinos). Marie-Christine Springuel (viola). Alceu Reis (violoncelo). / Carl Maria Von WEBER - Sonata op. 10,1 e Sonata op. 10,2 . Aurele Nicolet (flauta). Bruno Canino (piano).

April 7:
23:00 NOTURNO - Musica Romântica na Cultura FM:
Joaquín TURINA - Oração do Toureiro, op. 34. Orquestra Cidade de Granada. Reg.: Juan de Udaeta. / Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Estudos 1 a 7 Narciso Yepes (violão).

April 10:
15:00 TARDE CULTURA - Música e Notícia:
Entre outras obras, Rêverie, op. 24 de Alexander SCRIABIN. Orquestra Nacional Escocesa. Reg.: Neeme Järvi, Heitor VILLA-LOBOS, Concerto para violão e orquestra. Turíbio Santos (violão). Orquestra Sinfônica Rio. Reg.: Sílvio Barbato e Nino ROTA, Tema de "O Poderoso chefão". Orquestra Royal Philarmonic. Reg.: Carl Davis.

April 11:
06:00 A ESCRITA DE CÂMARA - Solistas e pequenas formações:
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Quartetos de cordas n° 15, 16, 17. Bernardo Bessler e Michel Bessler (violinos). Marie-Christine Springuel (viola). Alceu Reis (violoncelo).

April 12:
06:00 A ESCRITA DE CAMARA- Solistas e pequenas formações:
Antonin DVORAK - Quarteto op. 106. Ludmila Vinecka e Claudio Cohen (violinos). Glesse Collet (viola). Guerra Vicente (violoncelo). / Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Trio para oboe, clarineta e fagote. Matthew Sullivan (oboe). Joseph Stone (clarineta). Edwin Alexander (fagote).

April 15:
13:00 DELICATESSEN com Teresa Lima:
Franz SCHUBERT - Impromptu em lá bemol maior Op. 90. n° 4. Alicia de Larrocha (piano). / Nikolai MYASKOVSKY - Concerto para violoncelo em dó menor Op. 66. Marina Tarasova (violoncelo). Moscow New Opera Orchestra. Reg.: Yevgeny Samoilov. / Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Elegia em lá menor. Marcio Carneiro (violoncelo). Werner Genuit (piano).

April 18:
10:00 CIRANDA - Academia Brasileira de Música:
Glauco VELASQUEZ - Brutto sogno. Belkiss Carneiro de Mendonça. / Claudio SANTORO - Pour Emma - Lied. José Eduardo Martins (piano). / ALMEIDA PRADO - Fantasia para violino e orquestra. Maria Contança de Almeida Prado (violino). Orquestra Filarmônica do Sudoeste da Alemanha. Dir.: Ricardo Rocha. / Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Bachianas Brasileiras no. 7. Orquestra Filarmônica do Sudoeste da Alemanha. Dir.: Ricardo Rocha.

April 21:
23:00 NOTURNO - Música Romantica na Cultura FM:
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Canção do Amor. Renée Fleming (soprano). Orquestra da Rádio de Moscou. Dir.: Alfred Heller.

April 26:
03:00 O OPUS SINFÔNICO:
Antonio ESTEVEZ - La Cantata Criolla. / Heitor VILLA-LOBOS - Choros n° 10. Orquestra Sinfônica Simon Bolívar da Venezuela. Dir. Eduardo Mata. / Cezar FRANCK - Les Eolides. Poeme sinfônico. Orquestra Filarmônica de New York. Dir. Kurt Masur. / Karol SZYMANOWSKI - Abertura em mi maior op. 12. Orquestra National de Warsaw. Dir. Witold Rowicki.

April 29:
15:00 TARDE CULTURA - Música e Notícia:
Entre outras obras, Piotr TCHAIKOVSKY, Variações sobre um tema Rococó, op. 33. Mstislav Rostropovich (violoncelo). Orquestra Filarmônica de Berlim. Reg.: Herbert von Karajan, Heitor VILLA-LOBOS, Choros n°1. Edelton Gloeden (violão). Antonin DVORÁK, Scherzo Capriccioso, op. 66. Orquestra Philharmonia. Reg.: Carlo Maria Giuglini.