Villa-Lobos, Heitor - Symphony No.12 - Karabtchevsky, Isaac
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Villa-Lobos' Symphony No. 12, his last, was completed on his 70th birthday and shows no lessening of his powers, marrying symphonic craftsmanship with explosive energy, harmonic richness, and rhythmic vitality; a fitting summation of his symphonic canon. Uirapuru is one of his most original works, couched in a modernism that teems with colour and creates a specifically Brazilian sound world without drawing on folkloric elements, whilst Mandu-Çarará is a notably inventive, lush, and exciting but little-known secular cantata. Carl St Clair and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra have recorded all Villa-Lobos' symphonies. They are available in a 7-CD boxed set, or singly No.12, which is in our release, is coupled with Symphony No.4 on CPO999525, which was released in 2001 but is still in print. Uirapurù is one of his best-known works, known from Eduardo Mata's recording on Sono Luminus in 1995 with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, though this was coupled with other Latin American ballet scores not by Villa-Lobos. It was released on the same label in 2009. Its most internationally-famed recording however remains that by Stokowski. Mandu-Çarará is not at all well-known but is very exciting and uses a text in the indigenous Nheengatu language. This disc is part of the complete cycle of Villa-Lobos' symphonies.