JUNE 2026 NEW ON NAXOS
THE MUSIC OF BRAZIL
Camargo GUARNIERI (1907–1993) Pedro Malazarte 1 A Serra do Rola-Moça 2 Quatro Poemas de Macunaíma 3 Carolina Faria 2 , Juliana Taino 1 , Mezzo-sopranos Atalla Ayan 1, 3 , Tenor • Leonardo Neiva 1 , Baritone Coral Paulistano 1 São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra Roberto Minczuk Camargo Guarnieri loved writing for the human voice, composing hundreds of vocal works over the course of his long and distinguished career. The works in this programme all use texts by Mário de Andrade – a hugely influential writer who was Guarnieri’s friend and long-term collaborator. The comic opera Pedro Malazarte is representative of an attractively unconventional and colourful Brazilian modernism that sets it apart from Romantic traditions. Alongside other powerful settings, A Serra do Rola-Moça is one of Guarnieri’s finest dramatic vocal works, narrating the tragic story of two young people who die on their wedding day as they and their horses plunge into a ravine. Key features: • This latest addition to the series presents world premiere recordings of Guarnieri’s first opera and other significant vocal works. All of the works on this recording are based on texts by Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), a renowned writer and musicologist who was the mastermind of the Brazilian modernist movement and Guarnieri’s mentor from the very beginning. • Other works by Guarnieri in ‘The Music of Brazil’ series include two volumes of his Chôros (8.574197 and 8.574403), described in BBC Music Magazine as ‘truly vivacious music with a great sense of drama… a celebratory treat’, and with a MusicWeb International reviewer adding that ‘I can honestly say I have never been disappointed by any of Guarnieri’s music that I have heard and I would strongly urge anyone with an interest – however fleeting – in Latin American or 20th-century concertante or symphonic music to seek out any of his works. They really are that good’.
8.660528 Release date: 26 Jun 2026
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Listen to an excerpt from Pedro Malazarte: Companheiro, minha terra é esta mesma LISTEN Tracklist 1 – 9 Pedro Malazarte (1932, rev. 1943) * 0 A Serra do Rola-Moça (1941) * ! Rondó do eco e do descorajado (1949) (version for voice and strings) ** @ Louvação do amor êtê (1944) * # – ^ Quatro Poemas de Macunaíma (1948 # , 1931 $ – ^ ) ** All sung texts by Mário de Andrade (1893–1945) * FIRST COMMERCIAL RECORDING ** FIRST RECORDING OF ARRANGEMENT
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