Music of Brazil

Today in 1887, Heitor Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

I'm familiar mainly with Villa-Lobos' guitar music, which my brother played while I was growing up. His music has a very Latin-American spice to it, and hovers between late romantic and contemporary classical music.

Here are some of my favorites, which I grew up hearing my brother play:

- Prelude No. 1
- Prelude No. 2
- Etude No. 1

He also wrote a concerto for guitar and orchestra, which is pretty difficult to play, and somewhat modern sounding; but there are some really nice moments and interesting passages. Here's the first, second and third movements.