Emmanuele Baldini & Pablo Rossi – Villa-Lobos: Complete Violin Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:47 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Classical
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Heitor Villa-Lobos’s three Violin Sonatas date from a key period in his career: the moment at which he matured as a composer, established his personal idiom and achieved his first professional triumphs. Each Sonata shares some influence from French late Romanticism or Impressionism, as well as revealing Villa-Lobos’s skill as a string player. The First Violin Sonata’s subtitle of “D’esesp’erance” (‘Despair’) suits its melancholy lyricism, while the “infinite abundance of musical ideas” in the Second Violin Sonata is characterized by a wide range of emotions. The sophisticated Third Violin Sonata is steeped in the influence of Debussy, but also anticipates Villa-Lobos’s new directions in the 1920s.
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