Frank Bungarten - Villa-Lobos Complete Solo Works for Guitar (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 282 MB | 01:14:36
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG Gold
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 282 MB | 01:14:36
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG Gold
Frank Bungarten has taken on a significant task: an entire album of works by legendary Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. The composer's music is lush, complex, and richly textured, which is not a surprise given that Villa-Lobos was classically trained. But Villa-Lobos also incorporated inspiration from music of native Brazilian peoples and African cultures, so one cannot consider him purely a formal art music composer. Thus it takes a very skilled musician to be able to technically master the music and to convey the emotion and rhythms. Bungarten is perhaps most successful in the first set of works, Suite populaire brésilienne, which is a set of five dances.