However, it is public domain in Canada (where IMSLP is hosted) and in other.
#Villa lobos bachianas brasileiras 5 imslp plus#
This recording, found below, includes both sections: Ária (Cantilena) and Dança (Martelo).Īs for that heavenly hum, listen for it starting at about 4:55, continuing through 6:11. Bachianas brasileiras No.8, W444 (Villa-Lobos, Heitor) This work is likely not in the public domain in the US (due to first publication with the required notice after 1925, plus renewal or 'restoration' under the GATT/TRIPS amendments), nor in the EU and those countries where the copyright term is life+70 years. Critics may quibble about the conducting, but all agree that her singing is sublime. But the first version I heard many years ago remains the one I hear when I gaze heavenward: also with Villa-Lobos conducting, it features the radiant voice of Victoria de los Angeles. I’m partial to versions sung by, seemingly surprisingly (but perhaps not), Joan Baez (conducted by Maurice Abravanel) and Marni Nixon (conducted by Felix Slatkin). Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 for piano solo 7. Performed by an ensemble of eight cellos and soprano, there are many interesting recordings to explore, starting with the first: recorded in 1945 (first section only), shortly after that section was written, with the composer as conductor accompanying Bidu Sayão. Although the Moon is the major actor at the heart of the Portuguese lyrics, it’s the hum at the end that transports me. 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazil’s preeminent composer of the 20th century.
If I could indeed hear the music of those spheres as they move through the heavens, for me it would be the celestial hum at the end of the first section of the Bachianas Brasileiras No. Still, I am rather taken by the theory of Pythagoras known as the Harmony of the Spheres, in which he postulated that the sun, moon, and planets all emit their own unique hum based on their orbital revolution. Yes, I’m well aware that no sound can be heard in the vacuum of space.