Dudamel at Carnegie Hall

Coming to Carnegie Hall on Friday, October 7th: Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in a concert that includes Villa's 2nd Bachianas Brasileiras, which featured in Dudamel's Proms concert last moth.

Bachianas Brasileiras no. 2 at the Proms

Here is the last of the Villa-Lobos Proms from the Latin American-themed 2016 version: Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, from earlier today, September 4, 2016. You can listen for the next month at BBC Radio 3's website.

Dudamel conducts Bachianas Brasileiras no. 2 in Stockholm

From Swedish Radio, here is a very fine performance from the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel. This is from earlier today (September 1, 2016) at the 2016 Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm. BB#2 begins at 26:30.

1. Paul Desenne: Hipnosis mariposa.
2. Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras nr 2 (1930).
3. Maurice Ravel:
a) Dafnis och Chloe, svit nr 2 (1912).
b) La valse (1920).

This is the same programme that Dudamel will take to the BBC Proms on September 4, 2016.

BB#5 in Waldbühne

I remember when I posted the open-air concert in Waldbühne on the Villa-Lobos Website, wishing that I could attend.

This is the next best thing, in this YouTube world:

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the amazing cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic. Ana María Martínez sings beautifully.

The second movement of the piece is here.