Today I bring you the review of a record I have heard for a long time in my teens and I hear with some frequency these days. The album "Retratos", with works by Radames Gnatali released in 1990, with Raphael R, Chiquinho of accordion, and the Brazilian string orchestra.
Radames Gnatali (1906 – 1988), was a great arranger of the "golden Period" of Brazilian radio orchestras between the decades of 30 and 50. Pianist and one of the excellent composers of our music.
To end an idea of the importance of Radames for Brazilian music, it was he who replaced Pixinguinha in 1939 as the arranger of the record label RCA Victor, worked for 30 years in the defunct National Radio, as composer was a contemporary of Ernesto Nazareth, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Anacleto de Medeiros, and of course, of Pixinguinha. Each movement of the "Suite Retratos", written in 1956 for Jacob of the mandolin, bears the name of these four personages.
The work that opens the disc is the suite itself (suite in the song means collection of pieces, usually written in the same tonality to be played one after the other, in a pre-established order by the composer), the first, a musical genre called "choro" with the name "Pixinguinha" , a tribute to Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho (1897-1973), with whom Radames had great musical affinity and friendship.
The second work of this collection is named "Ernesto Nazareth", a waltz, dedicated to this character, with whom the composer also had personal contact, watched playing in theaters, publishing scores, and had him as one of his idols.
"Anacleto de Medeiros", (1866 – 1907) famous for commanding the band of the fire Department of Rio de Janeiro, seen as the best of its time, is the honored in this "Schotiish" of the third movement. The fourth and last movement under the name "Chiquinha Gonzaga", has the title of "Corta-Jaca", a Maxixe in reference to the most famous work of "Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga" (1847 – 1935). Dated 1895 with a letter by Machado Careca, it was the cause of scandal in the Republic Palace in 1914.
These four works that make up the "Retratos Suite", originally written for the soloist's mandolin, string orchestra and regional ensemble, are performed here by the masterful interpretation of Rapahael Rabello to the classical guitar, Chiquinho of the accordion, and Dininho on the bass guitar.
The next track of this Phonogram is a samba song with the name "Amargura" composed in 1950, with the arrangement of Henrique Cazes for the Brazilian string orchestra, a group formed in the late 80, with three mandolins, two six-string guitars, 7-string , two cavaquinhos, two percussions, accordion, two redneck guitars and double bass.
The album closes with the "Concerto para acordeon, tumbadoras, e cordas" in three Moviments, "Allegro", "Adagio", and "Com Espírito". It is a concert for classical strings, written in 1972 for Chiquinho do Acordeon, in this recording with the solo of Beto Cazes in the tumbadora, and Chiquinho in the accordion. With the direction of Henrique Cazes the front of the Brazilian String Orchestra, and the arrangement of the Josimar Gomes Carneiro.
A big hug!
Guilherme Faquetti
January 22, 2018
Bibliographic references and more information.
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_do_R%C3%A1dio
http://cidadedasartes.rio.rj.gov.br/noticias/interna/587
https://manganal.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/chiquinho-do-acordeon-raphael-rabello-e-orquestra-de-cordas-brasileiras-radames-gnattali-retratos-1991/
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radam%C3%A9s_Gnattali
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Rabello
http://www.seer.unirio.br/index.php/simpom/article/viewFile/5793/5230
http://www.iar.unicamp.br/pg/adm/uploads/selecoes/musica/2012/239_3_20121_texto_e554456e9bf9f31_1.pdf
https://pt.scribd.com/document/250714605/Suite-Retratos
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/pm/n23/n23a13.pdf
https://jornalggn.com.br/fora-pauta/lysia-conde-e-o-corta-jaca-chiquinha-gonzaga-e-m-careca
http://blogln.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-bel-ssima-amargura-de-radam-s-gnattali
http://www.discosdobrasil.com.br/discosdobrasil/consulta/detalhe.php?Id_Disco=DI02535
http://chiquinhodoacordeon.inf.puc-rio.br/cazes.htm
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