Villa-Lobos: Complete Violin Sonatas Emmanuele Baldini & Pablo Rossi

• Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959): Sonata fantasia No. 1, Op. 35, W51:
• 1 Villa-Lobos: Sonata fantasia No. 1, Op. 35, W51 "Désespérance" 09:25
• Sonata fantasia No. 2, Op. 29, W83:
• 2 Villa-Lobos: Sonata fantasia No. 2, Op. 29, W83: I. Allegro non troppo 06:20
• 3 Villa-Lobos: Sonata fantasia No. 2, Op. 29, W83: II. Largo - Moderato 09:53
• 4 Villa-Lobos: Sonata fantasia No. 2, Op. 29, W83: III. Rondo. Allegro final 07:05
• Violin Sonata No. 3, W171:
• 5 Villa-Lobos: Violin Sonata No. 3, W171: I. Adagio non troppo 09:28
• 6 Villa-Lobos: Violin Sonata No. 3, W171: II. Allegro vivace scherzando 04:56
• 7 Villa-Lobos: Violin Sonata No. 3, W171: III. Molto animato e final 06:30
• Total Runtime 53:37

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Heitor Villa-Lobos’s three violin sonatas date from a key period in his career: the moment at which he matured as a composer, established his personal idiom and achieved his first professional triumphs. Each sonata shares some influence from French late Romanticism or Impressionism, as well as revealing Villa-Lobos’s skill as a string player. The First Violin Sonata’s subtitle of Désespérance (‘Despair’) suits its melancholy lyricism, while the ‘infinite abundance of musical ideas’ in the Second Violin Sonata is characterized by a wide range of emotions. The sophisticated Third Violin Sonata is steeped in the influence of Debussy, but also anticipates Villa-Lobos’s new directions in the 1920s.

Emmanuele Baldini, violin
Pablo Rossi, piano

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