Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The complete works of Ernesto Nazareth online
When a composer’s work falls into the public domain, his or her compositions become accessible to a wider circle of performers. That’s the theory, at least. In the real world of music commerce, “accessible” doesn’t necessarily mean “available.”
It is therefore very good news to pianists everywhere that the complete works of Ernesto Nazareth, which have been in the public domain since 2004, are now published online and available for download free of charge.
On the Ernesto Nazareth website you’ll find 211 complete scores, along with several incomplete ones and alternate versions. The scores were revised and corrected by Alexandre Dias from historic editions. A printed edition will follow.
The Ernesto Nazareth project was spearheaded by harpsichordist Rosana Lanzelotte, who has just released the CD Nazareth (Biscoito Fino), with inventive arrangements in which she is accompanied by percussionist Caito Marcondes and guitarist Luis Leite.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Revivendo founder Leon Barg has died
Leon Barg
Revivendo Músicas, one of the best (if not the very best) music reissue labels in the world, has announced that its founder, Leon Barg, died on 12 October 2009.
Born in Pernambuco on 5 May 1930, Mr. Barg was a major collector of vintage music. His first musical memory was of hearing, on the neighbor’s Victrola, the frevos-canções “Ui, Que Medo Eu Tive!” and “Julia,” sung by O Rei da Voz, Francisco Alves. The young Barg met the singer in 1948, when Alves came to Recife on tour.
Almost forty years later, living in Curitiba, Paraná, Barg looked at his collection of over 120,000 78-rpm records and thought that it would be selfish to keep all that music for his own pleasure without sharing it with others. In September 1987, he established Revivendo. Since then, the label has produced 73 LPs and over 250 CDs, preserving the precious musical culture of decades past.
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