September 18, 2009. Nominations for the 10th Annual Latin GRAMMY® Awards were announced yesterday at a press conference at the Conga Room at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. The Awards will be announced on November 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, and broadcast live on the Univision Network from 8 – 11 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central).
This year, artists from Naxos of America’s family of distributed labels were nominated for three awards, including BestClassical Album nominations for pianist Sonia Rubinsky for her Naxos recording Villa-Lobos: Piano Music; Guia Pratico, Albums 10 and 11; Suite Infantil Nos. 1 and 2 (Naxos8570504); and renowned cellist Andrés Díaz, for his Azica recording of Bach Cello Suites (ACD-71252).
Composer Clarice Assad also was nominated for the Best Classical Contemporary Composition award for Danças Nativas, from the Chandos recording Spirit of Brazil (Aquarelle Guitar Quartet; CHAN 10512).
Heitor Villa-Lobos was one of the most prolific composers of all time. Along the way he wrote 17 string quartets. This podcast is an introduction to these quartets, and to a Dorian box set featuring the complete string quartets with Cuarteto Latinoamericano.
Album details…
Catalogue No.: Dorian Sono Luminus DSL-90904
There may never have been quite as spontaneous and free-flowing a composer as Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazil’s finest gift to musical humanity…
… the most famous of the set, its hauntingly beautiful soprano vocalise in the first movement giving way to a Martelo dance of the finale, all accompanied by an orchestra of 8 cellos…
… make a wonderful introduction to the world of Villa-Lobos, in their melodic beauty, quirkiness, rich harmonies, and inventive orchestration…
Joseph Battista’s 1953 recording of the Cirandas for MGM, showed up today in the great Naxos Music Library…
… Joseph Battista is an American pianist and scholar who was born in Philadelphia in 1918, and who died in 1968. There’s a page on the Latin American Music Center’s website about Battista and the Cirandas disc…
… It’s nice to have this CD issued in time for the 40th Anniversary of Battista’s untimely death…
An interview with Jose Serebrier about his new recording with “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. Serebrier discusses the composers on this disc, including Bizet, Revueltas, Ginastera and Villa Lobos.
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September 18, 2009. Nominations for the 10th Annual Latin GRAMMY® Awards were announced yesterday at a press conference at the Conga Room at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. The Awards will be announced on November 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, and broadcast live on the Univision Network from 8 – 11 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central).
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