Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra - Fernandez: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 "O Cacador de Esmeraldas"; Reisado do Pastoreio (CD) - CD

Details: Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez 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...