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Brazilian Classical Music Page

 

 

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Carlos Gomes (caricature, 1870)

Composers, works, biographies, scores, pictures, related links. Updated information and essays about the rich tradition of classic music in Brazil, whose history starts in the XVI century

 

BRASILINA is the  Luís Antônio Giron´s page dedicated to 500 years of history of brazilian classical music, from the very beginnings, during the XVI century, to the contemporary tendencies. We try to provide you all possible information about this unknown aspect of a tradition more famous from its popular genders. 

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Edino Krieger(1998)

Lereno
The "brazilian way" turns 200 years

Edino Krieger
Classical Avant-garde and composes jingles

Osvaldo Lacerda
Is nationalism still worthwhile?

Portrait of a woman
German composer and pianist Clara Schumann

Brazilian music canon
Catalogues establish the most important works from tow periodes

Osvaldo Lacerda (1998)Quartets of a master
A CD shows for the first time the quartets by Lorenzo Fernandez

 


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It is possible to think on art in portuguese
An analysis about the origins of esthetics during the colonial period

Georg Solti: a tribute
The unexpected conductor´s death among dead celebrities

Don Giovanni, by Solti
The conductor´s testament is a fantatisc remake of Mozart´s masterwork

François Lesure discovers more about Debussy Carregadores de Piano no Recife (Mário de Andrade, 1928)
An interview with French musicologist, the most important debussyan
scholar

Two marvelous mandarins
Béla Bartók and Mario de Andrade had   something in common

The Jose Maurício Nunes García´s Biography
The musicologist Cleofe Person de Matos provides a impressive book

Alberto Nepomuceno, a song master
Singer Anna Maria Kieffer registers on CD all works by the composer from Ceará

Eric Rohmer turns Musicologist
French film director thinks about profundity of music

Bruckner continues to be a secret
Austrian composer has been more and more played, but his legacy is not yet understood

Versions of Brahms
New biographies show german composer as progressive master

Tinhorão´s "History of Urban Music"
Sociologist discovers the origins of urban music in Lisbon during eighteenth century

Magic Lantern in Bayreuth
Richard Wagner´s stage and the birth of the cinema

Bidú Sayão´s magic
Life and work of the most important brazilian diva

Martins completes his monumental Bach cycle
Pianist honors the tradition of modernity and remakes Bach in a personal approach Oil on canvas by Almeida Júnior

The Mozart from Rua das Marrecas
Know more about the great composer from Rio José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767-1830)

Roberto de Regina records "Cancioneiro de Upsala"
Braziian harpsichordist and conductor faces the chalenge of registering the 54 villancicos from spanish XVI century

Francisco Curt Lange´s Legacy
The german musicologist who discovered a century of music in Minas Gerais

New rhythms from Bahia
Composers who write music as a kind of afro-brazilian and contemporary balance

Why is Pixinguinha a master?
The centenary of the prominent popular composer

Interpretations of Villa-lobos
New CDs with quartets and chamber music show interesting point of views

Villa-Lobos according to Michael Tilson Thomas
New World Symphony Orchestra plays the monumental "Bachianas" cycle Alberto Nepomuceno (1897)

Carlos Gomes as composer of songs
The influence of brazilian music in Gomes´s production

Celibidache's brazilian adventures.
Who was the conductor and what connections he maintained with Brazil

French edition of "O Turista Aprendiz" cuts essential details
Translation underrated the brazilian musicologist´s work

The important musician works in a a far historical city
The organist Elisa Freixo is recuperating a colonial tradition

Sinfonia Varsovia under Penderecki seduces Municipal
Polish orchestra´s tour in Brazil is a success

Gustav Leonhardt´s esoteric virtuosism
Read about the harpsichordist recital in São Paulo

A rough "Tosca" at Municipal
The last season staging was not a good choice

Links to other sites on the Web

My personal site
University of São Paulo´s address
You can collaborate with your own texts to be published on this page!
Click here to get your banner, free!
Know more about a fantastic museum of photography
The brazilian classical music page of Brazilian National Library!
"Concerto" magazine contains classical program in São Paulo
Salzburg Festival page
A site for colonial composers from Minas Gerais, by Celso Lage Paiva
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation site: music in Portugal, publications, services

Articles about music, arts movies etc. on Itaú Cultural Revista Eletrônica
Get all sort of information about classical market and biographies at Classical Net
Britannica On Line! (ask me how to get it, by signing Guest Book)
New York Metropolitan Museum
OperaWeb: information,ressources and free web location at the italian site
Concerts and Festivals Calendar
Paulus Home Page
BMG Classical Music Site
Unicamp Contemporary Music Documentation Center
Verve´s site, for jazzmaniacs
Guttenberg Project provides downloads of classic books
A Dictionary of European Languages
A tool that translates 20 languages and teach Grammar
Classical MIDI Archives
VivaMúsica!

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