Colonial & Classical Music

Alberto Nepomuceno - Eduardo Hazan
A Nova Música de Minas - Hazan interpreta Andersen
Joaquim Callado - Sebastião Vianna

Barbara Garcia - Piano

Medievo - Música Antiga da UFF

NEW! GREGORIAN CHANT - RORATE - Coral Gregoriano de Belo Horizonte
New! O Cravo e a Rosa - Antonio Carlos de Magalhães


Modinhas



Padre José Maria Xavier - Ofício de Trevas Vol. II



Quadro Cervantes



Pattapio Silva - Sebastião Vianna
Patápio Silva was, in his brief career, considered the Brazilian flute greatest virtuous. He left masterpieces such as Primeiro Amor (First love), Margarida (Daisy), Sonho (Dream), Serenata D’Amore (Love serenade), Amor Perdido (Lost love) and Zinha. Sebastião Vianna, (88 years old) maestro and flutist, reunites and interprets this work regarding the composer’s original recordings to the Casa Edison (Odeon).



Ernesto Nazareth - vol 1 - Maria Teresa Madeira
Considered the greatest composer of the Brazilian "belle-epoque", Nazareth took his music inspired by the popular moods of Rio de Janeiro to the concert halls at the highest technical level.
You'll find true musical jewels on this album. The best of his work are in these two volumes of the Brazilian Masters Collection, in the performances of the greatest specialist of his music, the pianist Maria Teresa Madeira.


Ernesto Nazareth - vol 2 - Maria Teresa Madeira
Ernesto Nazareth was one of the creators of the true Brazilian Music, mixing the European classical tradition with tropical rhythms. This album is a collection of his masterpieces and is performed by the finest Brazilian pianist of the genre - Maria Teresa Madeira, who has been an ambassador for the composer's music around the world.


Carlos Gomes - Rosane Viana, Walter Alves e Regina Amaral
It's an álbum with fifhteen unpublished works of the greatest brazilian composer of the XIX century, Carlos Gomes in a first world-wide recording , interpreted by pianist Regina Amaral, clarinetist Walter Alves and soprano Rosane Viana.


Chiquinha Gonzaga - Maria Teresa Madeira
First volume of the "Brazilian Masters" series with unpublished musics of Chiquinha Gonzaga and the piano of Maria Teresa Madeira.


NEW! - Alma Brasileira



NEW! Moravian Philarmonic Orchestra (Moravska Filarmonie)
Composed, directed and produced by Andersen Viana
This is the first international recording of a Brazilian composer-conductor and producer heading a top European orchestra: Moravska Fillarmonie (Czech Republic). The music was composed, conducted and produced by Andersen Viana. It collects five pieces in many styles: symphonic jazz (Concert Piece "in Blue"), folk music (Suite of Brazilian Children's Songs), polytonality and tonality (Micro Suite), serialism (Quattuor) and an ethnic symphony featuring a Beethovenian development: Symphony No 3, named Terra Brasilis.



A Chantar
This album is the result of University of Rio de Janeiro early music group's work, portraying the women's musical and literary past of medieval France, including French and Italian instrumental dances of unknown authors.


Cânticos de Amor e Louvor
On this CD are the only cantigas de amigo in Galician Portuguese from the 13th century that have survived till today with lyrics and music intact. They are complemented by some cantigas de louvor found in manuscripts of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, also from 13th century Portugal.


Música no Tempo das Caravelas
In 1999, on the celebration of 500 years of the Discovery of Brazil, old music teachers of the University of Rio de Janeiro State, release this CD with portuguese songs from the first half of the XVI century.


Quadro Cervantes
Quadro Cervantes is currently one of the most significant active early music groups in Brazil. Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Brazil's discovery, the group released this album with Portuguese Medieval and Renaissance pieces, some music of the Baroque period and "modinhas" and "lundus" of the 18th and 19th centuries of Brazil. The group played antique instruments in the recording of this album.


Duo - Artur Andrés e Regina Amaral
In Duo flautist Artur Andrés and pianist Regina Amaral interpret some of the most exquisite repertoire scored for flute and piano. Their quest for expressivity permits them to go from faithful interpretations of Villa-Lobos or Poulenc to interpretations of Satie and Bach in which they assume the search for singularities in each piece as the phonics of their work.


Sabará - Antônio Carlos de Magalhães
Compositions for harpsichord of the Brazilian Baroque period, played with mastery by Antonio Carlos de Magalhães.


Virtual Orchestra - Andersen Viana
Electro-acoustic, symphonic and programmatic music. This is the first CD recording by Andersen Viana. This album contains six different pieces which use modalism as well as medieval instruments (The Priestesses of the Vestal Temple) until the Green Suite, which is a fusion of various aesthetics and musical techniques (tonality, modality, polytonality and atonality). This work is the beginning of a new orchestration theory: The Virtual Orchestra.


Symphony 2 - Andersen Viana
Symphony No. 2 (Open Symphony) is program and descriptive music which tells, through its fourteen movements, the history and development of a city, from the prehistoric passing by its first inhabitants and explorers till the hypothetical and futuristic city, where robots, spaceships and humans harmoniously share the same place.


Moravian Philarmonic Orchestra (Moravska Filarmonie) - Andersen Viana
This is the first international recording of a Brazilian composer-conductor and producer heading a top European orchestra: Moravska Fillarmonie (Czech Republic). The music was composed, conducted and produced by Andersen Viana. It collects five pieces in many styles: symphonic jazz (Concert Piece "in Blue"), folk music (Suite of Brazilian Children's Songs), polytonality and tonality (Micro Suite), serialism (Quattuor) and an ethnic symphony featuring a Beethovenian development: Symphony No 3, named Terra Brasilis.
Claves, Notas e um Piano - Arthur Bosmans
The most modern of Brazilian musical classics, represented by the Belgian-Brazilian maestro. Repertoire performed by the greatest interpreters of the great piano concertos in the world, now in its first recording.