Villa-Lobos / Anna Moffo, 1963: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - Leopold Stokowski

Digitized from the LP shown above, released in 1965 on the RCA Victor Red Seal label, catalogue number LSC-2795. The Bachianas Brasileiras (Portuguese pronunciation: [bakiˈɐ̃nɐz bɾaziˈlejɾɐs]) are a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent not so much a fusion of Brazilian folk and popular music on the one hand, and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt freely to adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music (Béhague 1994, 106; Béhague 2001). Most of the movements in each suite have two titles: one “Bachian“ (Preludio, Fuga, etc.), the other Brazilian (Embolada, O canto da nossa terra, etc.). 『ブラジル風バッハ』（伯: Bachianas Brasileiras）は、エイӠ