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| ARTIST: | Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alfred Heller, Moscow Physics and Engineering Institute Chorus, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (Moscow Radio), Renée Fleming |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Consonance |
| TYPE: | 20th/21st Century Tone Poem/Symphonic Poem, Classical, Orchestral |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Ov - Chor Of The Moscow Physics And Engineering Institute/Alfred Heller, Deep In The Forest - Moscow RSO/Alfred Heller, Excitement Among The Indians - Chor Of The Moscow Physics And Engineering Institute/Alfred Heller, First Bird Song, Nature's Dance - Moscow RSO/Alfred Heller, Second Bird Song, (Vocalise), Sails, On The Way To The Hunt - Moscow RSO/Alfred Heller, Third Bird Song, Twilight Song, The Indians In Search Of The Girl - Moscow RSO/Alfred Heller, Fourth Bird Song, Rima's Music, (Vocalise), Head Hunters, Love Song, Sentimental Melody, Forest Fire - Moscow RSO/Alfred Heller, (Finale) |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794081001222 |
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Customer Reviews of Heitor Villa-Lobos: Forest Of The Amazon
Amazing and fine I am very happy to see this recording and hope that it continues to be available.
It is a little known masterwork and a marvelous recording.
There is much to enjoy on many levels, first the story itself speaks to our times.
Then there is the skill and value of the composition itself. I am particularly struck by the coloristic effects and wide range of mood and action. I can hear that Villa Lobos was aware of all types of music, and also could use all the variety in a unified work.
The orchestra is very fine and Fleming is superb in voice and musicianship.
Conductor Alfred Heller brings much love and skill and knowledge to this work.
A hidden masterwork
This work originated as a film score by Villa Lobos for the failed "Green Mansions" film of the late 1950's. However very little of the Villa Lobos music actually was heard in that film score. So Villa Lobos reworked his music and what one hear's today is not a film score, but something integrated, warm and wonderful that tells the audio story of the Hudson novel on one level, and also the modern tale of the extinction of species the fires burning in the Amazon basin represents. It is like an opera in the sense that melodies occur and reoccur later on in the work. The episodic nature of the music carries forward the tale in Villa Lobos' unique aural universe. The poems that Dora Vasconsoles wrote and that were integrated with this work reflect the poignancy and joy of life that were a part of the Hudson heroine, Rima's relationship to her Amazonian world. I saw the original film starring Audrey Hepburn and was disappointed but taken by her portrayal of Rima. Soon after, the Forest of the Amazon was issued on the United Artists Label and had Bidu Sayao's singing and I loved that recording. But this present recording with Renee Fleming is a wonder. The Moscow orchestra plays well, and I found that musical details are so much more present in this recent CD. I think this music is one of Villa Lobos' masterpieces and should be more widely heard. Of course, this recording must also be readily available to be heard by a wider audience.