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Imslp villa lobos ciclo brasileiro4/7/2023 ![]() Really the only solo pianist I've found to be satisfactory is the great and underappreciated Aline van Barentzen the Cuarteto Latinoamericano has produced by far the best recordings of the string quartets (though the Stuyvesant Quartet's offering is quite good - I think they only recorded one, though) only VL himself seems to have known how to interpret his guitar music (I include Segovia in that) and, most relevant to the topic, Eleazar de Carvalho was apparently the only great conductor to attempt more than one of VL's works. Sorry, but it's really true - finding a good VL recording is exceedingly difficult and I've become convinced that only a very small number exist. Given the number of recordings I've listened to it's hard not to notice that nearly all of the performers who attempt his work are relatively obscure unfortunately, many of them are also awful. Being a true VL fanatic, I've either purchased or sampled quite a number of recordings of many of his works, including the complete piano music, symphonies, many ballets, choral music, lieder, chamber music, etc. ![]()
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