Camargo Guarnieri - Chôros, Vol. 2; Flor de Tremembé (Roberto Tibiriçá)

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Composer: Camargo Guarnieri

• Chôro for Clarinet & Orchestra
• Chôro for Piano & Orchestra
• Flor de Tremembé
• Chôro for Viola & Orchestra
• Chôro for Cello & Orchestra

Ovanir Buosi, clarinet

Olga Kopylova, piano

Horácio Schaefer, viola

Matias de Oliveira Pinto, cello

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Roberto Tibiriçá, conductor

Date: 2022

Label: Naxos

https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.574403

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Review

In the sense meant by the old phrase ‘a painter’s painter’, Camargo Guarnieri is ‘a composer’s composer’. His music grabs hold of you, impels you, pushes you hither and thither, but you feel no resentment: quite the opposite. So consummate is his technique that you want to follow him, Pied Piper-fashion.

Chôro for clarinet and orchestra (1956) is a perfect example of this. The listener is seduced by the magical orchestration, lulled by the sensual melodic style (Gershwin will certainly come to mind) and exhilarated by the rhythmic intrigue. The listening composer feels the same but also wants to see the score to know exactly how he did these things. Without intending to resort to cliché, there is also that sense of dance, of physical movement – try the first movement of the Chôro for piano and orchestra (also 1956) and see if you are not drawn in by its swinging rhythm, before your ear is drawn by what Paulo de Tarso Salles describes in his booklet note as his ‘elegant counterpoint’.

The latest work on the album is the Chôro for viola and orchestra (1975), an altogether more angular though not dodecaphonic piece. It explores more extreme emotional territory and is shot through with the beauty of melancholy, particularly in the middle movement, Tristemente. If viola players would take it up, as one might hope would be the result of this excellent recording, it would constitute a major addition to the literature for the instrument. There’s some magical writing, too, in the Chôro for cello and orchestra (1961), notably the lyrical excursions in the central Calmo e triste.

The ‘intruder’ here is the lovely Flor de Tremembé (1937), which will certainly call to mind Villa-Lobos, as Salles notes, but Guarnieri is altogether a more consistent composer, while Villa-Lobos is something of a lottery – you are as likely to get a work of bizarrely imaginative genius as the feeling of a piece of chewing gum that never ends.

Performances throughout are thoroughly idiomatic and the four soloists genuinely seem to revel in the music. Roberto Tibiriçá guides them through it with the sureness of one who knows the scores inside out, and the recording, made in the Sala São Paulo, is both clear and resonant.

-- Ivan Moody, Gramophone

More reviews:
https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2022/May/Guarnieri-choros-v2-8574403.htm

https://artmusiclounge.wordpress.com/2022/04/23/the-choros-of-camargo-guarnieri/

https://limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/camargo-guarnieri-choros-vol-2-flor-de-tremembe-sao-paulo-symphony-orchestra-roberto-tibirica/

https://www.naxos.com/Review/Detail/?catalogueid=8.574403&languageid=EN

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Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 – January 13, 1993) was a Brazilian composer. He was born in Tietê, São Paulo, and studied piano, composition, and conducting in São Paulo and Paris, where his teachers include Charles Koechlin, among others. A key figure in the Brazilian national school, Guarnieri served as a conductor, a member of the Academia Brasileira de Música, and Director of the São Paulo Conservatório. His extensive oeuvre includes symphonies, concertos, operas, chamber music, piano pieces, and songs. He was regarded by some as the most important Brazilian composer after Heitor Villa-Lobos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camargo_Guarnieri

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Roberto Tibiriçá (São Paulo, January 5, 1954) is a Brazilian conductor. From 2000 to 2004, he was artistic director and principal conductor of the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra, and between 2005 and 2011 served as artistic director of the Baccarelli Institute’s Heliópolis Symphony. In 2010, he became principal conductor of the Minas Gerais Symphony Orchestra, a role he retained until 2013. He has also been principal conductor and artistic director of the Campinas Symphony Orchestra, São Bernardo do Campo Philharmonic Orchestra and Sodre Symphony Orchestra. Tibiriçá is a member of the Academia Brasileira de Música.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Tibiriçá

https://www.naxos.com/Bio/Person/Roberto_Tibirica/415887

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