Barrueco/Sau Paulo/Guerrero - Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto, Harmonica Concerto, Sexteto M�stico, Quinteto Instrumental

The concertos and chamber works on this album show Villa- Lobos� unceasing enthusiasm for new colours and sonorities in his music. The Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra was his last work for the instrument and written for Segovia. A cornerstone of the repertoire, it contains soaring melodies and rhythmic vitality couched in virtuosic writing. Exploring the instrument�s full harmonic and chromatic possibilities, the Concerto for Harmonica is also deftly orchestrated. New and daring sonic combinations are to be heard in the two chamber works demonstrating the composer�s extraordinary gift for seductive lyricism.