| Review by JJ December 23, 2010 (2 of 3 found this review helpful)
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The colossal catalog of works by Villa-Lobos is impressive in that it includes about a thousand opuses in all categories of music. “This considerable production, however uneven,” states Alain Poirier, “reminds us of his unique talent as an orchestrator and colorist, whom Messiaen admired. His style, easily recognizable, was the fruit of a melodic sense that was highly supple, and which could nevertheless attain summits of complexity in its polyphonic development.” “Amazon Forest,” dating from 1958, is a work composed on poems by Dora Vasconcellos, and whose orchestral part was revised by Roberto Duarte. The nearly eighty-minute score is a small jewel one has to hear in order to discover and learn more about the Brazilian composer’s rich universe. John Neschling and his Sao Paulo orchestra have made a landmark recording that cannot be ignored.
Jean-Jacques Millo
Translation Lawrence Schulman
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