Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Amazônia. Villa-Lobos – Glass (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Amazônia. Villa-Lobos – Glass (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:11 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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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.

Tracklist:
1. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: I. A floresta (08:40)
2. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: II. Em plena floresta (02:38)
3. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: III. Pássaro da floresta – Canto I (05:23)
4. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: IV. Dança da natureza (03:19)
5. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: V. Conspiração e dança guerreira (02:52)
6. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: VI. Veleiros (03:44)
7. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: VII. Em caminhos para a caçada (05:54)
8. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: VIII. Canção do amor (05:06)
9. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: IX. Melodia sentimental (03:25)
10. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: X. O fogo na floresta (04:17)
11. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas: XI. Epilogo (02:53)
12. Philharmonia Zürich, Camila Provenzale & Simone Menezes – Glass: Metamorphosis 1 (from Aguas da Amazonia) (12:55)

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