São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Minczuk

• The recordings by the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra of works by Villa-Lobos, Camargo Guarnieri and other Brazilian composers have demonstrated the variety of their national music and the multi-faceted nature of Brazilian dance.
• Alexandre Levy’s Samba and Alberto Nepomuceno’s Batuque are early examples of a Brazilian art music which draws heavily on the dance rhythms of popular music.
• Notable latter-day examples are Antônio ‘Tom’ Jobim with his Chegada dos Candangos from 1960 and Edino Krieger’s Passacaglia for the New Millennium.
• Roberto Minczuk has previously led the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in acclaimed performances of Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras on BIS (BIS-CD-1830/32), and here returns with this colourful collection of dances for symphony orchestra.

Alberto Nepomuceno: Garatuja – Prelúdio; Batuque
Alexandre Levy: Samba
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Dança Frenética
Francisco Mignone: Congada
Oscar Lorenzo Fernández: Batuque
Camargo Guarnieri: Três Danças para Orquestra
Edino Krieger: Passacalha para o Novo Milênio
Antônio Carlos Jobim: A Chegada dos Candangos
Clóvis Pereira/César Guerra-Peixe: Mourão