Heitor Villa-Lobos: Choros vol.3 (Bis Audio CD)

Introduction to the Choros (1929) for guitar and orchestra; Two Choros (bis) (1928) for violin and cello; Choros No.2 (1924) for flute and clarinet; Choros No.3, ‘Pica-Pau’ (1925) for male choir and wind instruments; Choros No.10, ‘Rasga o Coração’ (1926) for orchestra and mixed choir; Choros No.12 (1929) for orchestra

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, John Neschling;
Fabio Zanon, guitar; Cláudio Cruz, violin; Johannes Gramsch, cello; Elizabeth Plunk, flute; Ovanir Buosi, clarinet;
Choir of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

The present disc completes the Villa-Lobos’ Choros cycle, which consists of the 12 extant Choros (according to Villa-Lobos himself another two were completed, but the manuscripts were lost before publication), a prologue (the Introduction to the Choros, incidentally composed almost last), and the Two Choros (bis) – an ‘after-thought’ in which a violin and a cello are left to sum up the cycle