Credits:

Claude Debussy

Description:

The catalog of works by Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993) is a legacy of inestimable value to Brazilian culture and a strong influence as an outstanding predecessor of a younger generation of composers. Guarnieri met poet and musicologist Mario de Andrade in 1928 and shared Andrade's idea of "Brazilian Modern Art," an attempt to reflect traditional Brazilian music in a classical style. The work is colored with a folkloric atmosphere, as if it were a direct embodiment of Andrade's ideal of "the inheritance of Brazilian music" after he passed away in 1945. Incidentally, "choro" is a style of Brazilian popular music, and Guarnieri thought it possible to replace the "concerto" with a "choro. The "celesta," which uses a variety of instruments including the piano, is also a type of choro. A flute "choro" with a classical idiom using a harpsichord, and a lyrical "choro" with a solo bassoon, which became his last work.All are experimental, yet brilliantly colored with Brazilian inspiration. Naxos Japan