Rio Paris

Description

The guitar is at the heart of Brazilian music, classical or popular. Its triple heritage — Native American, European and African — gives it a unique and delicious flavor. The Brazilian Villa-Lobos drew his inspiration from the deep sources of the soul of his country, and one can say that he is to the guitar what Chopin is to the piano. Many Brazilian musicians have stayed in Paris and developed a strong bond with the French capital. Thus four friends came together, Natalie Dessay, Agnès Jaoui, Helena Noguerra and Liat Cohen, to build this musical bridge between Rio and Paris. Parisians in love with Brazilian music pay tribute to Brazilian composers who are very attached to Paris. NATALIE DESSAY sings Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas No. 5 in its version with guitar. AGNES JAOUI, a multi-talented artist who has already devoted a superb album to South American music, selling more than 100,000 copies, brings here her musicality, her warm and intimate timbre. HELENA NOGUERRA’s native language is Portuguese; listen to her sing Desafinado and Agua e vinho, with that innate sense of the language and its rhythm. LIAT COHEN surrounds the three singers with the swirls of her virtuoso and delicate guitar. They all come together throughout the album in trio or quartet, notably for the legendary “Les eaux de mars”.