Heitor Villa-Lobos

Villa-Lobos: from Bach to Brazil

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Video Director: Carlos de Andrade - Artist: Heitor Villa-Lobos - Producer: Visom Digital - Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazil | 51 min | 2019 | TV-G

Villa-Lobos: from Bach to Brazil

Composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) is to Brazil what Giuseppe Verdi and Jean Sibelius are to Italy and Finland: his compositions have come to embody the very soul of his native country. In Villa-Lobos: from Bach to Brazil, narrator Carlos de Andrade guides us through young Tuhu's journey through life, from his humble beginnings as the cello-playing son of a demanding librarian serenading performing in Rio de Janeiro's many cafés, to the bigger-than-life maestro Heitor Villa-Lobos whose quintessentially Brazilian music is recognized and respected the world over. Interspersed with numerous contemporary music performances and rare footage of the composer at work and at home, the documentary also sheds invaluable light on Villa-Lobos' estimable role in the development of Brazil's new-found national identity.

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