During its colonial times, Brazil was a very wealthy area of the Portuguese empire. And supported a very fruitful musical scene. Fiesta presents music composed in Brazil during the 18th and 19th centuries by composers such as Luis Alvares Pinto, José Mauricio Nunes García and Sigismund von Neukomm.
Brazil: Baroque to Classical
Playlist
Overture to for Zemira, by José Mauricio Nunes Garcia
Vox Brasiliensis; Ricardo Kanji, conductor
Lições de Solfejo, by Luís Alvares Pinto
Orquestra e Coro Vox Brasiliensis; Ricardo Kanji, conductor
Harpsichord Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 4, by André da Silva Gomes
Michio O’Hara, harpsichord
Quintet in B-Flat Major, Op. 8, by Sigismund von Neukomm
Stephan Siegenthaler, clarinet; Stamic Quartet
