Villa-Lobos
- Works for guitar
On this new disc, guitarist Pascal Boels plays a selection of music by Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa–Lobos, including the 12 Etudes, 5 Preludes, the Suite populaire bresilienne, and the Choros No. 1.
The tracks are as follows:
Villa-Lobos:
- Etudes for Guitar, W 235 Nos. 1-12 (complete)
- Preludes (5) for guitar
- Suite populaire brésilienne
- Chôros No. 1 for guitar
Performed by Pascal Boëls (guitar)
The guitar works of Villa-Lobos represent a small part of the composer’s overall output of more than a thousand works, but they show the three main sources of his inspiration: the beauty of his native Brazil; the music of Bach; and his European friends, with whom he was connected in the Paris of the 1920s, with such friends including Varèse, Picasso, and many others.
Villa-Lobos has become known as the most popular and most significant Latin-American composer of the 20th century. And now we have another virtuoso, the Frenchman Pascal Boëls, who plays the 10-string guitar, and who brings us the preludes and all the Villa-Lobos works for solo guitar, with this excellent recording.
In summary, this CD is a near 80-minute recital of the complete works for solo guitar by Villa-Lobos. It is something special, as complex in its way as Bach’s suites for solo cello.
Here is the JS Bach – Suite BWV 1012 for violoncello (Sarabande), as transcribed for 10-string guitar:
And now here is a video of VILLA-LOBOS Etude pour guitare N°2 par Pascal Boëls
Tags: Pascal Boëls, Villa-Lobos, 10-string guitar