Customer Reviews for The Piano Music Of Heitor Villa-Lobos
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Zarina
Location: from Switzerland
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
May 19, 2008
Villa-Lobos
A sparkling music and a melancholy musica at the same time, in Brazilian spirit. Wonderful!
17 of 31 people found this review helpful.
Steve Stellman
Location: from Brooklyn, NY
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
March 20, 2008
Indispensable Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos is one of the most original composers of the 20th century, and the library of a classical pianist is simply incomplete without a solid selection of his music which, until recently, was hard to find. The one Dover anthology was useful but suffered from multiple typefaces and some difficult to read pieces. This Amsco edition, attributed to the composer himself, contains pieces ranging from children's level to extremely difficult. It includes the familiar Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, Suite Floral, the instantly recognizable O Polichinello, selections from Prole de Bebe, and nearly 40 others. The typeface is uniform and crisp. However, it would be even better if a competent editor could provide fingerings (there are none) and suggest alternative notations for the numerous passages that are spread over multiple staves.
19 of 38 people found this review helpful.
Susan B.
Location: from Santa Cruz, CA
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
December 3, 2007
Great collection
This is a great collection of Villa Lobos including some of the bigger pieces such as Festa no sertao. Christina Ortiz is perhaps the very best recording artist of most of these pieces in case you want to hear them. This is a very good price for so much music.
18 of 33 people found this review helpful.
Rosangela Yazbec Sebba
Location: from Starkville, MS
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
May 30, 2002
Best of Brazilian music
This is one book that all piano professors should have in their library. The literature varies from intermediate to advance with the advantage of being all in one volume. For those pianists who want to play different literature this is the best buy together with another edition of other piano music by Villa-Lobos from another publisher.
17 of 31 people found this review helpful.