Heitor Villa-Lobos

While we might be tempted to lean on an astronomer or PhD-level philosopher to sort out that statement, it won't be necessary in this case.

Villa-Lobos was a composer who made his most telling observations about Bach in a series of concert works, which we'll sample this hour.

Stay with me, Michael Toulouse, for a selection from the Bachianos Brasileiros.

The ending is impressively grand, and overall, this is an impressive and highly enjoyable piece by Golijov.

Track 28, I guess no Latin American recording would be complete without the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos, especially when you have a, a Brazilian orchestra playing.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, Villa-Lobos lived 1887 to 1959.

Pianists, pick this one up.

The theme is played very boldly in octaves at about the one-minute and 20-second mark.

Tracks 34 to 37, Heitor Villa-Lobos again, his very famous Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4.

This is his catalog number W264.

I wonder why.

He was very into, like, Villa-Lobos, that was the classical composer of the, the '30s maybe in Brazil.

Mm.

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