Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 - Aria (Heitor Villa-Lobos) - Salli Terri & Laurindo Almeida

Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 (Aria)
music - Heitor Villa Lobos
lyrics - Ruth V Correa

Salli Terri (vocal)
Laurindo Almeida (guitar)

producer: Robert E Myers
rec eng: Sherwood Hall, III

"Duets with the Spanish Guitar"
US Capitol 8406
recorded 1958

1959 grammy nominations -
Best Engineered Record, Classical (winner)
Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist

Villa Lobos considered this version of the Aria, by Salli Terri and Laurindo Almeida, to be the best recorded performance. He originally scored it for voice and eight cellos, and later arranged it for voice and guitar.

"Tarde, uma nuvem rosea lenta e transparente,
sobre o espaco sonhadora e bela!
Surge no infinito a lua docemente,
Enfeitando a darde, qual meiga donzela
Que se a presta e alinda sonhadoramente,
Em anseios d'alma para ficar bela,
Grita ao ceo e a terra toda a Natureza!!!
Ca la a passarada aos seus tristes queixumes,
E reflete o mar to da a sua riqueza...
Suave a luz da lua desperta agora,
A cruel saudade que ri e chora!
Tarde uma nuvem rosea lenta e transparente,
Sobre o espaco sonhadora e bela!"

"Lo, at midnight clouds are slowly passing, rosy and lustrous,
o'er the spacious heav'n with loveliness laden.
From the boundless deep the moon arises
wondrous, glorifying the evening like a beauteous maiden.
Now she adorns herself in half unconscious duty,
eager, anxious that we recognize her beauty,
while sky and earth, yea all nature with applause salute her.
All the birds have ceased their sad and mournful com-plaining;
now appears on the sea in a silver reflection
moonlight softly waking the soul and constraining hearts
to cruel tears and bitter dejection.
Lo, at midnight clouds are slowly passing rosy and lustrous
o'er the spacious heavens dreamily wondrous."

(English translation - Harvey Officer)

more info at http://www.salliterri.org

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Tags:

• Bachianas Brasileiras
• Villa-Lobos
• Salli Terri
• Laurindo Almeida
• Cantilena
• Aria
• Latin American
• Spanish guitar
• Ruth V Correa
• Ruth Correa
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
• cantilena

[tanan70]

Sunset. A rosy cloud moves slow and transparent over the sky dreamy and beautiful.The moon softly arises at the horizon (infinite), decorating the afternoon,

like a sweet maiden. And the dreamily beautiful, in yearnings of the soul to become gorgeous, cries out to heaven and the earth, all nature!

Shut the birds its sad moaning. And the Sea reflects the Moons entire wealth ...

The tender moonlight awakes a merciless "homesick regard" (saudade) that laughs and weeps.

[utzuckz]

@tanan70 --- open up the video's Description to see the published translation of the English version of the lyrics by the arranger Harvey Officer

[Eyatn]

Heard this lovely LP in the '70's and found the CD in the U.S. in the '90's

[utzuckz]

@Eyatn The CD reissue "Duets with Spanish Guitar" is a compilation of tracks selected from "Duets With The Spanish Guitar", "Duets With The Spanish Guitar - Album 3" and "For My True Love"

there was another CD reissue, "Duets With Spanish Guitar Volume 2", made up of tracks selected from "Conversations With The Guitar" and "For My True Love"

other Salli Terri / Laurindo Almeida vinyl collaborations are "Songs Of Enchantment", "I Know My Love" and "At The Gate Of Heaven"

[sanjosemike]

I had the honor and privilege of hearing Almeida in a jazz club in Detroit many, many years ago. He was an astounding, talented and moving musician. sanjosemike

[enricogastaldelli]

Simplesmente perfeita! Villa-Lobos, te amo.

[jjairoamarante]

excelente admiravel contagiante muito boa.

[Lia6919]

So vejo comentarios em outra lingua.Com certeza as cinco pessoas que nao gostaram sao, infelismente,brasileiros viciados em barulho e compactuados com mal gosto. E maravilhoso.

[MiniKingMusic]

Beautiful

[nattybenny]

Can someone help me and tell me where I can buy the full score of this piece? Thank You

- Benny 

[Tsunade3Sannin]

Salli, thank you for teaching this opera snob a lesson and recording this. You've brought the 70's ballad to classical music. This rendition at the very least the likes of Sayo and even de los Angeles. Dare i get ahead of myself and say you are more haunting than both? i think so.

[mariothepookster]

hauntingly exquisite, a treasure of an album. two virtuosos .... thank you, yvonne padilla, for introducing me to this album some 40 years ago.

[zzausel]

This Bachiana is a powerful music, and a nonviolent music, it shows a kind of spiritual devotion facing the width of landscape. Not every famous singer feels this way. Salli Terri did, I think.

[Honghaguitarist9]

nice music...



[Wanderley503]

For those who think that only exists in Brazil the Indians of the jungle and the stars of soccer (Pele, Ronaldo) ... I'm proud to be Brazilian and know that this work is here in my country BRAZIL, composed by the great Brazilian maestro Heitor Villa Lobos ...