Heitor Villa-Lobos - Assobio a Jato for flute and cello (audio + sheet music)

Heitor Villa-Lobos studied music through a diversity of sources: café music in Rio de Janeiro, folk music throughout Brazil, an impressionable exposure to Debussy, Ravel and Bach, followed by a lengthy stay in Paris in the 1920's, where he encountered the likes of Poulenc, Milhaud and Stavinsky. He returned to his native Brazil where he introduced the European repertoire and wrote volumes of strikingly original music in myriad and novel forms. Villa-Lobos became a national treasure, an international celebrity and the most highly esteemed Brazilian composer to date. His chamber output is daunting, including seventeen string quartets written over a period of forty-two years. It is fair to say that Villa-Lobos is terribly under-represented by current chamber music programming.
Written in 1950, Assobio a Játo (Jet Whistle) for flute and cello is a perfect example of Villa-Lobos' exotic style. His choice of flute and cello offers maximum contrast between high and low, metal and wood, wind and wire, breath and bow. With high contrasts in range and timbre, the texture is so transparent that it is polarized. Throughout the piece, the flute and cello are equal partners as they symmetrically exchange lead and accompaniment, or play together with such sinuous, divergent counterpoint that they seem nearly independent, coincidentally musical. The music is chromatic and cool, swirling over a vaulting range of pitch and, across three movements, a range of nuanced moods. Within the economy of a duet, Villa-Lobos paints an astonishingly vivid canvas. The title comes from a name Villa-Lobos gave to a particular novel technique the flautist must employ in the fast glissandi of the third movement sounding to him like a jet plane.
(earsense.org)
Please take note that the audio AND sheet music ARE NOT mine. Feel free to change the video quality to a minimum of 480p for the best watching experience.
Performers: Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Rebecca Rust (cello)
Sheet music: imslp.org/wiki/Assobio_a_Jato%2C_W493_(Villa-Lobos%2C_Heitor) (Southern Music Publishing, 1953)

[@samuelcabellogonzalez7590]

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Assobio a Jato 00:07 - Allegro 03:37 - Adagio 07:02 - Vivo

[@caterscarrots3407]

The combination of Flute and Cello is so beautiful.

[@felipepba1122]

Beautiful!!!

[@feliperodrigues554]

True Genius!

[@dariocaporuscio8701]

Great piece

[@pablodelia-celloclases4593]

Magnífica interpretación!!!

[@xuzheng1642]

10:47 Jet whistle!

[@GlauberSantiago]

Muito bom

[@andreafilidei3071]

😍😍❤

[@erikreutel4622]

Alguien tiene la parte?

[@pipilotan]

Who's playing? Never in a million years would I believe it's Pahud

[@friedrichedelmann2650]

It is part of the CD MARCO POLO No.8.223527 recorded at RADIO BREMEN from 4th to 6th of April1993, the very first CD of Emmanuel Pahud before he became principal flutist at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, just after he had auditioned and won the position as principal flutist under Celibidache, with Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, a position which he never really started to take.

[@pipilotan]

All right, thank you!