Amazônia [compact disc]
2023
Music
Two Brazilian artists pay tribute to Villa-Lobos and the Amazon rainforest... Sebastião Salgado is a world-renowned photographer who has been working since the 1990s to protect and restore the Atlantic forest and water resources of the Rio Doce valley in Brazil. The Italian-Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes is passionate about the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and his symphonic poem Floresta do Amazonas , for which she created a suite for large orchestra and soprano. Together they travel the world to present an exhibition of Salgado's photographs, combined with concerts conducted by Simone in which the photographs are projected, the photographer having associated each musical phrase with one of his images... The music of this monumental project has been recorded with the Philharmonia Zürich and soprano Camila Provenzale. Ten photos by Salgado, each more striking than the last, are included in the booklet that accompanies this recording, which is completed by another tribute to Amazonian nature, by Philip Glass, with an extract from his Aguas da Amazonia .
Main title:
Amazônia [compact disc] / Villa-Lobos, Glass.
Author:
Provenzale, Camila, singerMenezes, Simone, 1977-, conductorVilla-Lobos, HeitorGlass, PhilipPhilharmonia Zürich, instrumentalist
Work:
Imprint:
[London] : Alpha, [2023]℗2023.
Collation:
1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes:
Recorded 2022 October Zurich Opera house.Sung in Portuguese.
Performers:
Camila Provenzale, soprano ; Philharmonia Zürich ; Simone Menezes, conductor.
Contents:
Floresta do Amazonas / Heitor Villa-LobosMetamorphosis I / Philip Glass.
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
799456
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | CD Music Classical Orchestral | CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL AMAZ | On loan - Due: 01 Jul 2026 |