O.L. Fernández: Symphonies Nos. 1-2 Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra & Fabio Mechetti

• Óscar Lorenzo Fernândez (1897 - 1948): Reisado do Pastoreio:
• 1 Fernândez: Reisado do Pastoreio: I. Reisado 06:19
• 2 Fernândez: Reisado do Pastoreio: II. Toada 03:01
• 3 Fernândez: Reisado do Pastoreio: III. Batuque 04:20
• Symphony No. 1:
• 4 Fernândez: Symphony No. 1: I. Lento (ad libitum) - Moderato 10:25
• 5 Fernândez: Symphony No. 1: II. Allegro vivo e scherzoso 06:26
• 6 Fernândez: Symphony No. 1: III. Lentamente 07:10
• 7 Fernândez: Symphony No. 1: IV. Allegro energico 08:23
• Symphony No. 2 "O Caçador de Esmeraldas":
• 8 Fernândez: Symphony No. 2 "O Caçador de Esmeraldas": I. Allegro moderato e pesante (Enérgico) 11:52
• 9 Fernândez: Symphony No. 2 "O Caçador de Esmeraldas": II. Molto allegro e misterioso 07:04
• 10 Fernândez: Symphony No. 2 "O Caçador de Esmeraldas": III. Lento e lamentoso 10:24
• 11 Fernândez: Symphony No. 2 "O Caçador de Esmeraldas": IV. Allegro mosso e agitato 07:04
• Total Runtime 01:22:28

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Oscar Lorenzo Fernández was a key figure in the cultural life of Rio de Janeiro. The primordial power of Batuque, the final movement of his Afro-Brazilian influenced suite Reisado do Pastoreio, gained the composer international fame. Without ever abandoning his Brazilian roots, in his later career Lorenzo Fernandez moved away from explicit nationalism towards a more universalist idiom as can be heard in the vigorously themed and atmospheric First Symphony of 1945 and the programmatic Second Symphony, inspired by the life and death of the heroic 17th-century explorer Fernão Dias Paes Leme. Symphony No. 1 is a world premiere recording.

Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra
Fabio Mechetti, conductor

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