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Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Violin Sonata (Fantasia) No. 1 "Désespérance"
- Violin Sonata (Fantasia) No. 2
- Violin Sonata No. 3
Emmanuele Baldini, violin
Pablo Rossi, piano
Date: 2021
Label: Naxos
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Although they have tended to be overshadowed in the context of his large and diverse output, the violin sonatas by Villa-Lobos directly chart the younger composer’s emergence, besides being music that is never less than appealing for all its overtones of previous styles or models.
Both earlier sonatas are designated Sonate-fantaisie, the First (1912) also subtitled Désespérance in alluding to its melancholic aura and an improvisatory structure whose occasionally more animated passages rarely offset the ongoing plaintiveness. The Second Sonata (1914) resorts to a more classical format but is otherwise appreciably more personal in its intensive dialogue, with some notably demonstrative writing for piano in the vivid expressive contrasts of the initial Allegro and rhythmically impetuous final Rondo. Most distinctive is the central Largo, its 10 minutes admirably proportioned and taking in music of overt songfulness along with a sustained emotional force that unerringly intimates the later composer. The influence of several decades of French music feels even more audible in the Third Sonata (1920), notably its opening Adagio, whose subtly modal harmony and fluid unfolding denote an Impressionist inflection. Deftly poised between scherzo and intermezzo, the central Allegro also yields an astringent humour, then the finale builds with mounting impulsiveness to its trenchant coda.
All three of these pieces have been variously recorded, not least in idiomatic performances by Jenny Abel with Roberto Szidon, but the insight and commitment of Emmanuele Baldini and Pablo Rossi help make the release an attractive proposition for those new to this music.
-- Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone
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Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist. Described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music", Villa-Lobos has become the best-known South American composer of all time. A prolific composer, he wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2,000 works by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, and is well represented on the world's recital and concert stages and on compact disc.
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Emmanuele Baldini (Trieste, December 29, 1971) is an Italian violinist and conductor. He studied with Bruno Polli at the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Tartini, with Corrado Romano at the Geneva Conservatory, and with Ruggiero Ricci at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He also studied conducting with Frank Shipway and Isaac Karabtchevsky. Baldini was the winner of several international competitions, and has performed as a soloist throughout Italy as well as the main concert halls of Europe. Presently he is a concertmaster at São Paulo State Symphonic Orchestra (OSESP) and also leader and founder of the OSESP Quartet.
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Brazilian pianist Pablo Rossi won the first Nelson Freire National Competition for New Brazilian Talents in 2003. He has won more than 10 competitions and given over 80 recitals as a member of The Keyboard Charitable Trust. Rossi has performed as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, the Auvergne Chamber Orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Kirov Orchestra and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, among others. As a recitalist Rossi has performed in important concert halls around the world, such as Carnegie Hall, Parco della Musica, Laeiszhalle, Sala São Paulo and Sala Cecília Meirelles.
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