Brilliant Classics: 6634

Villa Lobos: String Quartets

Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959) was arguably the most important composer of Brazil. His prolific output includes hundreds of opus numbers, on which basis he is sometimes discarded as a pulp writer, but nothing is farther from the truth. His style is extremely varied, from the obvious Latin-American rhythms-influenced jazzy style to more expressionist “European” idiom, comparable to for instance Frenchman Roussel or Czech Martinu.