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This LP is from 1977, in the Stereo/Quadrophonic (SQ) sound system that never really caught on commercially, though judging from our LP coll...

  Here's an LP from my birth year, 1952. Werner Janssen conducts the Chorus of the University of California at Berkeley in Villa's M...

Villa-Lobos composed at the piano, and he was a fine pianist, if not a virtuoso on the level of his close friend Arthur Rubinstein. But ther...

The second album in our Villa on Vinyl series begins with the Choros #1 for solo guitar, as our first one did. This 1978 LP from Brazil...

  With this post I'm beginning a new series here at The Villa-Lobos Magazine : Villa on Vinyl . I've been building a fairly substant...

In 2023 I got serious about collecting vinyl; so far I've managed to acquire about twenty Villa-Lobos LPs, mainly from thrift stores. I...

This is exciting: the 4th edition of Villa-Lobos: Sua Obra , the catalogue of Villa-Lobos's complete works, published in 2022 by the Mus...

 Here's another LP from Boston Public Library's vinyl LP collection, newly archived at Archive.org. In the 1950s the Louisville Symp...

The Mass of Saint Sebastian is one of Villa-Lobos's greatest choral works. It was written in December of 1936 and January 1937. In the ...

On September 15, 1951, Heitor Villa-Lobos sat in New York for one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century, Arnold Newman....

  From the Museu Villa-Lobos photo archive, this great photograph, from 1958, of Villa-Lobos with Audrey Hepburn and her little Yorkshire Te...