Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos and His Friends – review

Nelson Freire(Decca)Built around works by the greatest of all Brazilian composers, Nelson Freire's celebration of piano music from his native country is pure delight. The longest of the 30 tracks here – the fifth of Villa-Lobos's Choros, a series that includes everything from solo instrumental works to pieces for large orchestra and chorus – lasts less than four and half minutes, and many of them are less than half as long. Freire characterises and colours each one inimitably, never searchin...

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