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Originally recorded in 2021
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos
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Claudio Santoro was one of Brazil’s most eminent and influential composers. Over a 50-yearperiod, he wrote a cycle of 14 symphonies that is widely acclaimed as the most significant cycle of its kind ever written in Brazil. The two selected works in this inaugural volume of the first complete recording of his symphonies focus on the 1950s, a period when Santoro sought a more direct and communicative idiom using Brazilian elements. His use of folk-based material is nonetheless highly creative, sometimes indeed abstract, as in key moments of SymphonyNo.5.SymphonyNo.7is one of his most complex and intense works, a celebration of his country’s new capital Brasília in music of striking modernity.
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“… The performances by the Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra under its principal conductor Neil Thomson are first-class, as is the quality of the recording…”
“… The Goias Philharmonic was founded in 1980 and since 2014 has had a principal conductor in Neil Thomson, who has specifically promoted the qualities of the ensemble. This has allowed it to establish itself primarily, but not only, as a promoter of the music of Brazil. In its presentation of the two works by Claudio Santoro, it conveys an impressive sense of the rhythms and moods of the music of its homeland. This manifests itself in particular in a profoundly intoxicating casual buoyancy of playing. It is precisely this that opens up the great listening experience. Without this liveliness, the music would be bland and academic without resonance to our ears.” *****
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