Compact Discoveries 21: Upstairs, Downstairs, Villa-Lobos!
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:57:56
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Piece Description
The Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was so prolific, one needs a guide to pick out the real gems of his output. Fred Flaxman volunteers and presents his listeners with the hauntingly lyricalBachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for soprano and cellos; the melodious, rhythmic, catchy, unforgettable, Brazilian-to-the-core Choros No. 1 for guitar, and the dynamic, tuneful, rhythmic First Piano Concerto.
Broadcast History
First distributed nationally by the WFMT Radio Network in 2002. Made available via PRX for the first time in July, 2009.
Transcript
Program 21
"Upstairs, Downstairs, Villa-Lobos"
MUSIC: Villa-Lobos: Chôros No. 1 [Newport Classic NPD 85518, track 2] [Down and under...]
FLAXMAN: Hi, I'm Fred Flaxman, your guide to Compact Discoveries. I call this program "Upstairs, Downstairs, Villa-Lobos [VEEla-LOH-bohsh]."
MUSIC: [fades out]
FLAXMAN: When my wife and I lived in southern Oregon, our house had two stories. We didn't have enough space in our living room for all of our compact discs, so some were relegated to the recreation room in our walk-out basement.
The result was like the old British TV series, "Upstairs, Downstairs." We had two classes of CDs living in our house. "Upstairs" composers included most of Brahms, Beethoven, Dvorak, Gershwin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Verdi, Wagner, and many, many others. Downstairs were most of Gorecki [Goo-reht-skee], Penderecki [Pen-deh-reht-skee], Berg...
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Art Kosatka
Posted on July 25, 2009 at 03:49 PM | Permalink
Nice stuff
Hi, Fred -- loving the Villa Lobos program while I work.
Art Kosatka