Villa-Lobos: Symphonies 1 & 11

Heitor Villa-Lobos (Composer), Carl St. Clair (Conductor), SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Carl St. Clair
• Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
• Audio CD (November 30, 1999)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cpo Records
• ASIN: B000031WHR
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #436,837 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sym No.1 Op.112 'The Unexpected': Allegro Moderato-Allegro

2. Sym No.1 Op.112 'The Unexpected': Adagio

3. Sym No.1 Op.112 'The Unexpected': Scherzo. Allegro Vivace

4. Sym No.1 Op.112 'The Unexpected': Allegro Con Brio

5. Sym No.11: Allegro Moderato

6. Sym No.11: Largo

7. Sym No.11: Scherzo. Molto Vivace

8. Sym No.11: Molto Allegro

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Among the best symphonies of the xxth century, September 1, 2002

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"kingkreutzer" (Mexico, D.F., Distrito Federal Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Villa-Lobos: Symphonies 1 & 11 (Audio CD)

This works are wonderfull, the 1st symphony is an exellent work wich show us a young composer full of musical ideas that later will became much more mature and strong in works like his fouth symphony, (also recorded by this exellent ensamble and conductor as well) ; the 11th symphony is by far one of the masterpieces in the genere in the past century, is amazing the fact that there was no interest at all of any ochestra in the world in make an integral recording of this works, till now.
The sound is exellent and performance is more than 1st class!!!
if you love xxth century music, you must buy all the symphonies as soon as they will be avilable.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good work, March 7, 2008

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Penet Guy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Villa-Lobos: Symphonies 1 & 11 (Audio CD)

I fully agree with the first review on this CD. The eleventh symphony is a wonderful piece of art and both the interpretation and the recording are of very good standard. By the way, CPO has now released the complete set of Villa-Lobos' symphonies. Very enjoyable music alltogether.