Chôros No. 7 (Settimino)
9 min
Recording
- Chôros No. 7 (Septeto)Victor Brazilian Orchestra (Orquestra Victor Brasileira); Heitor Villa-Lobos, conductor · 8 January 19328:36
Villa-Lobos conducted his Chôros No. 7 (Septeto) for winds, violin and cello in a recording made on 8 January 1932. The Victor labels credited the septet as the Victor Brazilian Orchestra.
Listening notes
- Scoring and recorded ensemble
The score calls for flute, oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, violin and cello, with an optional tam-tam played off stage. The Victor labels bill the group as the “Victor Brazilian Orchestra” and do not name the players.
- Dedication to Arnaldo Guinle
The score is dedicated to Arnaldo Guinle, who financed Villa-Lobos when he settled in Paris in 1923. Chôros No. 5, for piano, is also dedicated to him.
- First performance, Rio de Janeiro, 1925
Villa-Lobos wrote the Chôros in 1924. It was first performed on 17 September 1925 at the Instituto Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro. Ary Ferreira (flute) and Newton Pádua (cello) were among the players.
- American import, 1936
In February 1936 The American Music Lover reported that this record was being imported, as a companion to the Carioca Quartet’s Victor discs of the Fifth Quartet. It added that Stokowski had played the work in the United States “upon several occasions”.
- Recording and new post, 1932
The record was made on 8 January 1932. In February the Federal District of Rio offered Villa-Lobos the post of head of a new department of music education, the Superintendência de Educação Musical e Artística.