Bebel and Joao Gilberto – Linda Flor
Bebel Gilberto & her father bossa legend João Gilberto – Linda Flor ( Ai YôYô) – São Paulo – 1994
All in One – CD reviews
All in One is “something of a return to Brazil” for Bebel Gilberto, said Phillip Van Vleck in Billboard. The daughter of Brazilian singer Miúcha and João Gilberto, the father of bossa nova, is now a worldwide star. On her first record for Verve—a label known for putting out some of the best albums of Brazilian music ever—Gilberto steers her global pop sound toward the sultry rhythms of South America. All in One shimmies with wispy, tropical covers of such songs as her father’s “Bim Bom” and Carmen Miranda’s “Chica Chica Boom Chic.” Gilberto has always kept one foot in Brazil, said John Bush in All Music Guide. What sets this album apart isn’t its links to her musical heritage but the outstanding contributions by everyone involved. Multi-percussionist Carlinhos Brown “brings a rich texture to every song he graces,” and producer Mark Ronson revives the soul of Stevie Wonder’s “The Real Thing.” Despite the large cast, “no one makes a larger impact than Gilberto herself.” The Week
Daughter of bossa nova icons Joao Gilberto and Miucha, Bebel Gilberto gave the familial style a million-selling, digital makeover on 2000’s ‘Tanto Tempo’. While this pleasantly varied new offering includes up-tempo production from Mark Ronson and modish New Yorker Didi Gutman, it’s the more moodily reflective acoustic material that best suits the Brazilian singer’s exquisitely composed delivery. *** Mark Hudson, The Daily Telegraph
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Momento – video
Momento from Bebel’s previous album of the same name.
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Bebel – back in time – Chega de Saudade
This is a rare gem. Bebel’s father João Gilberto performing Chega de Saudade accompanied by a 14 year-old Bebel.
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Bebel Gilberto – April 19, Esplanade Concert Hall
Queen of nu bossa Bebel Gilberto returns to seduce Singapore with her lush, sophisticated melodies that pair smooth Brazilian grooves with subtle electronica.
Singapore is the only Southeast Asian stop on her Asia Pacific tour in support of her new critically-acclaimed debut on the Verve label, All in One. The voice behind one of the most successful albums of Brazilian music, Bebel last performed to sell-out crowds here in 2005 and 2007.
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Bachiana Brasileira Orchestra – A tribute to Villa-Lobos
October 8, 2009 – 8 pm
Jubilee Hall – Raffles Hotel
By invitation only
Singaporeans will be treated to a feast of Brazilian contemporary music when the Bachiana Brasileira Orchestra performs a programme featuring some of the country’s best-known composers, whose music though classical in style bears the unmistakable perfume of Brazil.
Presented by the Embassy of Brazil in Singapore, the concert – which celebrates different periods and styles of Brazilian Concert Music in the last 100 years – is being held to commemorate 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Brazilian Embassy in Singapore.
Compositions from famed composers such as Heitor Villa-Lobos, Dimitri Cervo, Breno Blauth, Henrique de Curitiba, Antonio Carlos Gomes and César Guerra-Peixe, who covered a vast range of music genres such as orchestral, chamber music and opera are on the programme.
The highlight of the programme is a tribute to arguably the most famous Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, including two pieces from his famed set of nine suites of Bach-inspired infused with Brazilian folk music, Bachianas Brasileiras. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Villa-Lobos.
The oldest piece on the programme is the 1894 composition O Burrico de Pau from Antonio Carlos Gomes, a composer best known for his operas. Gomes’ Il Guarany was produced at La Scala, Milan in 1870 and has recently been performed and recorded by Placido Domingo. Another item is minimalist composer Dimitri Cervo’s Pattapiana, named after the Brazilian flute icon Pattapio Silva who died tragically young.
The programme will be performed by the Bachiana Brasileira Orchestra, that is part of the artistic arm of the Sociedade Musical Bachiana Brasileira (SMBB), the Companhia (Cia.) Bachiana Brasileira, set up in Rio de Janeiro in 1999.
Today, the Cia. Bachiana Brasileira occupies a unique position in the Brazilian musical scene due to the high standard of quality with which it performs, be it Brazilian colonial and European baroque or contemporary music. The Brazilian newspaper O Globo nominated Cia. Bachiana Brasileira’s concerts as being among the best in 2007 and 2008.
The ensemble will be conducted by Ricardo Rocha, the head of the Cia. Bachiana Brasileira, who studied piano under Werther Napolitano at the Villa-Lobos College of Music and Orchestra Conducting under Roberto Duarte at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and holds the title Kapellmeister from Germany.
This concert is by invitation only.
Cia Bachiana Brasileira – Festival Bach
Cia Bachiana Brasileira perform at their Bach Festival
Ricardo Rocha – The Conductor
At the head of Cia. Bachiana Brasileira, Ricardo Rocha has marked the musical calendar of Rio de Janeiro with great concerts, much acclaimed by both public as well as critics.
One example is Selo Musical (Musical Stamp), an annual series dedicated to Brazilian Concert Music, which he created for the Brazilian Postal Service Cultural Center and directed between 2002 and 2006, featuring concerts representative of Brazilian musical output from the 18th century to the present day.
He has recorded more than 15 concerts for television and radio, as well as eight CDs.
Rocha has also been conducting in Germany since 1989, especially the Bamberg Symphonic, which he conducted in Munich, Bamberg and Erlangen, recording for Radio Bavaria, and the Thuringian Philharmonic, Baden-Baden and Südwestfalen Orchestras, with which he recorded a CD.
In Brazil, he has been guest conductor of several orchestras including the Brazilian Symphonic, São Paulo Municipal Theater Symphonic, Minas Gerais Symphonic, Petrobras Symphonic and National Symphonic.
In March 2009, he directed a symphonic concert dedicated to Villa-Lobos at the end of the II Latin-American Music week in Mendoza, Argentina, conducting the Cuyo National Symphonic Orchestra.
Rocha is also a professor of Conducting, a lecturer and the author of the book “Regência, uma arte complexa” (Conducting, a complex art, 2004) adopted as a text in Brazilian music schools, as well as articles published in Portuguese and German.
He holds the degrees of Kapellmeister, the highest in Conducting in Germany, of Master in Conducting from the Rio de Janeiro Federal University, and in Piano, from the Villa-Lobos Music School.
Cia Bachiana Brasileira – Requiem de Brahms
Cia Bachiana Brasileira – Orchestra and Choir perform live
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