Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959):
"Ciclo Brasileiro"
(1936)
orchestration by Richard Rijnvos (b.1964) *
2015-2023
1. Dança do Índio Branco **) 00:16
2. Impressões Seresteiras 04:56
3. Plantio do Caboclo ***) 11:34
4. Festa No Sertão 15:43
22 minutes
*) Please note that the order of the movements in this orchestral version is different from the piano original (similar to the CD recording by Débora Halász and others)
**) Please note that, for orchestration purposes, the original key signature is transposed up to C minor
***) Please note that, for orchestration purposes, the original key signature is transposed up to G major
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Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP)
Neil Thomson (conductor)
10 NOV 2023
Sala São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil)
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Composed in 1936, “Ciclo Brasileiro” is one of the most important piano works by Heitor Villa-Lobos. Its four movements were inspired by ethnographic fieldwork into folk music. Many years prior to its composition (as early as 1905), Villa-Lobos undertook a series of research trips throughout Brazil; similar to how Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Igor Stravinsky were exploring folkloric traditions in Europe. Villa-Lobos’s ethno-musicological discoveries appear in many of his piano works, perhaps most notably in the legendary 1926 composition “Rudepoêma”, which was allegedly once described by one critic as «Le Sacre du Printemps meets the Brazilian jungle». Villa-Lobos employs an enormous variety of compositional techniques to incorporate these borrowed materials; these range from direct quotations to newly invented themes with an unmistakable folk character. In doing so, the composer repeatedly emphasized the importance of separating nationalism from any political implications: “Patriotism in music, and capitalizing upon it, is very dangerous. You will have propaganda instead. But nationalism - the power of the earth, the geographic and ethnographic influences that a composer cannot escape, the musical idioms and sentiment of people and environment - these origins, in my opinion, are indispensable to a vital and genuine art”.
Dutch composer Richard Rijnvos began his orchestration of “Ciclo Brasileiro” in the year 2015, but it was not until 2023 before it reached its completion. It is fair to say that Rijnvos’s objectives as an orchestrator is to always respect the intentions of the composer and remain as loyal as possible to the original score. However, in the case of “Ciclo Brasileiro”, there is a fundamental intervention: a change of the order in which the movements are being performed. In the opinion of the orchestrator, when arranged for a large symphony orchestra, the spectacular character of “Festa No Sertão’ (the third movement in the piano original) is simply more effective as a joyful finale. Meanwhile, the boisterous “Dança do Índio Branco”, with its abrupt ‘prestissimo’ ending, now serves as the opening movement in the orchestral version.
(programme note continues on website)
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