QUINTA ESSENTIA QUARTETO

The Quinta Essentia presents the modern recorder consort in a classical Brazilian music repertoire. Caboclo is the newest group’s project, in which they present the extraordinary Brazilian melodies never played before on recorder consort. Villa-Lobos and Radamés Gnattali, two great composers that translated all the Brazilian accents, exotic flavors and stunning landscapes into their music. Going beyond the compositions, the group adds their personal taste and sounds with their modern recorder consort, charming the audience by their virtuoso playing.
About Heitor Villa-Lobos, perhaps the greatest Brazilian composer internationally known, we point out two of his compositional series: As Bachianas Brasileiras and the Chôros. The group presents the Aria of the Bachianas nº 5, well known by the great audience, and the Chôros nº 4, considered by the composer “the most significant of the Chôros in its form and signification”, and also by other authors as the image of the simple people’s life in the big cities’ suburbs, which the melodies have an ironical lyricism, based on the traditional form of the popular dance music from the foreign countries.
About César Gerra-Peixe, we emphasize his passion for Pernambuco folklore, when in 1949, visited Recife and accepted a radio station contract to study in place the less known aspects of this tradition, that resulted in one very emblematic piece of music of this style: Mourão, where the sound of fifes and fiddles rejoin in the Maracatu rhythm.
From Radamés Gnattali, we flaunt his style that shows great mastery of Brazilian rhythms and unconventional harmonies, transcending prejudices and conducting the dancing characteristics and beautiful melodies of Brazilian music to the concert music. A guest of honor for this work, which lends us his Lenda and other works, written originally for string quartet and arranged by the Quinta Essentia.
With the cultural influence of the native Americans and white people, together with the mixture of the European instruments with the complexity of the Brazilian music, we have the Caboclo. The legend, the songs and the mixture of the Caboclo repertoire for recorder quartet will be marked in the memory of whom are open to listen!

Live concert: Caboclo
recorded on Nov 23rd 2019
Quinta Essentia Quartet
Musicians: Francielle Paixão, Renata Pereira, Gustavo de Francisco, Pedro Ribeirão
Venue: Auditório Umuarama, Instituto CPFL, Campinas/SP, Brazil

REPERTOIRE
Tim Rescala (1961)
• A banda de pífaros do Rei Arthur (2019)
(0:05)

Radamés Gnattali(27/1/1906 - 13/2/1988)
• Lenda (1936)
(7:00)

Radamés Gnattali(27/1/1906 - 13/2/1988)
• Seresta Nº 1 Samba (1930)
(10:45)

Heitor Villa-Lobos(5/3/1887 - 17/11/1959)
• Bachianas Brasileiras nº 5 Ária (Cantilena) (1938)
(13:43)

Radamés Gnattali(27/1/1906 - 13/2/1988)
• Cantilena (1939)
(19:08)

Radamés Gnattali(27/1/1906 - 13/2/1988)
• Quarteto nº 3 (1963)
1. Marcado (23:15)
2. Sem título (27:29)
3. Sem título (30:35)
4. Marcado (33:43)

Heitor Villa-Lobos(5/3/1887 - 17/11/1959)
• Choros nº4 (1926)
(38:55)

Heitor Villa-Lobos(5/3/1887 - 17/11/1959)
• A lenda do caboclo (1920)
(44:10)

Radamés Gnattali(27/1/1906 - 13/2/1988)
• Seresta Nº 2 (1932)
(47:55)

Daniel Wolff(1967)
• Flautata Doce (2013)
(38:04)

César Guerra Peixe(18/03/1914 - 26/11/1993)
• Mourão - No estilo de cantoria nordestina (1970)
(53:47)

QUINTA ESSENTIA QUARTETO
Gustavo de Francisco
Renata Pereira
Francielle Paixão
Marina Mafra

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Este projeto teve o apoio da Lei Federal Aldir Blanc nº 14.017 e da Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Caetano do Sul