Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No.4

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No.4 Complete The Bachianas Brasileiras constitute a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent not so much a fusion between Brazilian folk and popular music on the one hand, and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt freely to adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music (Béhague 1994, 106; Béhague 2001). Most of the movements in each suite have two titles: one “Bachian“ (Preludio, Fuga, etc.), the other Brazilian (Embolada, O canto da nossa terra, etc.). Scored for piano (1930-41); orchestrated in 1942 (Preludio dedicated to Tomas Terán) Preludio (Introdução) Coral (Canto do sertão) Aria (Cantiga) Danza (Mindinho) [Miudinho on p. 45 of the orchestra score, and in Villa-Lobos 1974, 190.]