Wilhem Latchoumia - This Is America! - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Joan Tower' bold and energetic music, with it's striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won her large, enthusiastic audiences. Made in America is a fantasy on the theme of the unofficial national anthem, America the Beau. Album Tracks 1. Part One 2. Part Two

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a key figure in twentieth-century Brazilian music, an instinctive creator with a luxuriant imagination, at once provocative and conformist. He forged a personal style by founding his idiom on the melodic and rhythmic traditions of his country and enriching it with all the innovations he found among his contemporaries. His protean music captivates the listener with the diversity of it's aesthetic orientations, which exalt his ardent patriotism and find expression in vast epic scores or, on the contrary, in delicious, piquant miniatures. A champion of contrast and surprise, Villa-Lobos looks equally to the spirits of his ancestors and the primeval forces of nature in his native Brazil, a penchant that earned him the sobriquet 'White Indian'. Deeply committed to the musical education of young people, he introduced into his piano works many folksongs, often collected by himself, to serve as a support for three cycles that are veritable keyboard encyclopaedias Guia prático (Practical guide), A próle do bébé (The baby's family) and Cirandas (Round dances). Among his other works for piano solo are Bachianas brasileiras no.4, Chôro no.5, and the magnificent Ciclo brasileiro, the last-named of which Wilhem Latchoumia recorded in 2008 in a program entitled Impressões that also included works by Guastavino and Ginastera. Album Tracks 1. Villa Lobos Chôro N° 5 (Alma Brasileira / Brazilian Soul) W205 2. Villa Lobos Chôro N° 2 W198 3. Villa Lobos Ondulando, Estudio (Undulating, Étude) Op.31 W82 4. Villa Lobos Cirandas W220 - N° 3 Senhora Dona Sancha (Madame Sancha) 5. Villa Lobos Cirandas W220 - N° 6 Passa Passa Gavião (Go Away, Go Away, Hawk) 6. Villa Lobos Cirandas W220 - N° 15 Que Lindos Olhos (What Beautiful Eyes!) 7. Villa Lobos Cirandas W220 - N° 10 O Pintor de Cannahy (The Painter of Cannahy) 8. Villa Lobos Cirandas W220 -

The phenomenon of legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram defies easy definitions. Always ahead of his time in anything that he created, and immersed in jazz, folk, world music, film and theater music, as well as in contemporary classical music, he was praised by The Washington Post as Inchone of the most versatile and skilled musicians America has ever producedInch, while The Boston Globe hailed him as Inchthe Renaissance man of American musicInch, and The New York Times proclaimed him Inchmulticultural before multiculturalism existedInch. Being first and being ahead of his time comes naturally to David Amram - a pioneer of the jazz French Horn who simultaneously amassed the highest number of performances of the Brahms Horn Trio, while fascinating the crowds at folk and world music festivals, writing several books, composing scores for films and plays, touring worldwide, collaborating with iconic figures like Jack Kerouac, Elia Kazan, Pete Seeger, Paquito D'Rivera and Tito Puente, and at the same time also making his mark as a celebrated prolific composer of classical music, having written over 100 works in the symphonic, operatic and chamber music genres. Amram's legacy is a huge collection of so many milestones and inroads, that have established him as not only one of the most eclectic composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, but also as a guiding light, role model and enormous source of inspiration for younger generations. This album presents selected chamber music compositions written by David Amram between 1958 and 2017, and includes four world-premiere recordings. Album Tracks 1. Three Lost Loves for Violin, Alto Saxophone and Piano (2016) 2. The Wind and the Rain for Viola and Piano (1958) 3. Sonata for Violin and Piano (1960) 4. Portraits for Piano Quartet (1979) 5. Elegy for Violin and Piano (1970) 6. Two Excerpts from Jack