Bach & Pixinguinha – Mário Sève e Marcelo Fagerlande

bach e pixinguinha peqMário Sève & Marcelo Fagerlande

Bach and Pixinguinha, two important characters in history so much distant in time, now together in this album presented by Mário Séve (harpsichord) and Marcelo Fagerlande (sax and flute). Result of a research work done by these two brilliant musicians, this CD reveals the best compositions by Bach and Pixinguinha, genious of music.

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Tracks

1- Rosa (Pixinguinha e Otávio de Souza)
2- Ainda me Recordo (Pixinguinha e Benedito Lacerda)
3- Invenção a 2 Vozes em Ré Menor (Johann Sebastian Bach)
4- Naquele Tempo (Pixinguinha e Benedito Lacerda)
5- Ele e Eu (Pixinguinha e Benedito Lacerda)
6- Coral da Cantata BWV 140 “Wachet Auf” (Johann Sebastian Bach)
7- Gargalhada (Pixinguinha)
8- Lamentos (Pixinguinha e Vinícius de Moraes)
9- Allemande do Solo BWV 1013 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
10- Ária da Cantata BWV 21 “Ich Hatte Viel Bekummernis” (Johann Sebastian Bach)
11- Urubatã (Pixinguinha e Benedito Lacerda)
12- Sofres Porque Queres (Pixinguinha e Benedito Lacerda)
13- Invenção a 2 Vozes em Sib Maior (Johann Sebastian Bach)
14- Invenção a 3 Vozes em Fá Menor (Johann Sebastian Bach)
15- Fantasia em Dó Menor BWV 906 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
16- Um a Zero (Pixinguinha e Benedito Lacerda)
17- Carinhoso (Pixinguinha e João de Barro)

Musicians

Mário Sève
Saxophonist, flutist, composer and arranger. Just released “CASA DE TODO MUNDO” (Nucleo Contemporaneo – 2007), his first solo album playing his own compositions, with the participation of the groups Mestre Ambrósio, Época de Ouro, Choro Club, Pedro Luis e A Parede, Maogani, Nó em Pingo D´água, Baticun, musicians as Zé da Velha e Silvério Pontes, Marcos Suzano, Jorginho Pandeiro, Lui Coimbra, Jan Dumeé, Marcelo Fagerlande, Benjamim Taubkin, Toninho Ferragutti, Cristina Braga, Andy Connell and singers and composers as Monica Salmaso, Nelson Angelo, Rosa Emilia, Clara Sandroni, Paulo Malaguti, Suely Mesquita, Sergio Natureza, Guilherme Wisnik, among others. Acknowledged to be one of Brazil’s leading saxophonists and authority on the musical genre “choro”, Mario Sève is intensely active in Brazil’s musical scene, a rare creative personality, and a dynamic performer. He is a founding member of the groups NÓ EM PINGO D’ÁGUA – Mário Sève (sax and flute) / Rodrigo Lessa (mandolin) / Rogério Souza (acoustic guitar) / Papito (bass) / Celsinho Silva (pandeiro and percussion) – and AQUARELA CARIOCA – Mário Sève (sax and flute) / Lui Coimbra (cello) / Paulo Muylaert (eletric guitar) / Paulo Brandão (eletric bass) / Marcos Suzano (pandeiro and percussion). With Nó Em Pingo D’Água, won the prestigious Prêmio Sharp, twice won the “Concurso de Choros/Rio de Janeiro”; recorded six CD’s. Since 1996 he has been a member of PAULINHO DA VIOLA’s group, with whom he recorded four CD’s. With the group Aquarela Carioca was nominated three times for Prêmio Sharp, and recorded five CD’s, some with Ney Matogrosso. Toured in the United States, Europe, Japan, Mexico and South America. In partnership with harpsichordist Marcelo Fagerlande, he recorded the CD “BACH & PIXINGUINHA” (Nucleo Contemporaneo – 2001) and together with sax player Daniela Spielmann the CD “CHOROS, POR QUE SAX?” (Biscoito Fino – 2004), playing music written exclusively by brazilian saxophonists/composers. Toured with this project, with woodwind player David Ganc, all USA midwest playing and giving workshops in 5 universities (Notre Dame, Indiana State, Madison, Duke and Kentucky). Sève and Ganc released the CD “PIXINGUINHA + BENEDITO” (Nucleo Contemporaneo – 2005), a tribute to the most important brazilian duo of composers/musicians from the last century. Since 2000, he has been the artistic director and producer of the annual choro series, “Rio Choro”. This project has presented the most important interpreters and composers of the genre, including Altamiro Carrilho, Paulo Moura, Turíbio Santos, Época de Ouro and many more. He is the author of the authoritative “VOCABULÁRIO DO CHORO/CHORO VOCABULARY”, published by Editora Lumiar (Almir Chediak) in 1999, containing over 150 studies and compositions. Also collaborator on “SONGBOOK DO CHORO”, 320 choros (Lumiar), published in 2007 – the most comprehensive book of choro compositions by the principal composers of the past and present. Mario is about to release a Method of Brazilian Saxophone, sponsored by a Rio Arte grant. He has also performed, toured or recorded with: Ivan Lins, Alceu Valença, Leila Pinheiro, Zeca Pagodinho, Antônio Adolfo, Guinga, Geraldo Azevedo, Dona Ivone Lara, Nara Leão, Cristovão Bastos, Toquinho and others. And he wrote many tunes and songs, in partnership with Chico César, Guilherme Wisnik, Pedro Luís, Paulinho da Viola, Sérgio Natureza, Suely Mesquita, Geraldo Carneiro, Mauro Aguiar, Carlos Rennó, among others.

Marcelo Fagerlande
Marcelo Fagerlande, “…one of the leading brazilian harpsichordists,” according to the magazine Early Music America, is a musician that brings together a solid academic background along with creativity and diversity in his professional performance, be it as a harpsichord player, as a musical director and conductor at the harpsichord, creator of musicals, teacher and author of musicological works.
He has been active as a harpsichord player (orchestra soloist, recitalist, and chamber player) in presentations throughout Brazil and in the United States, Mexico, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Hungary and Uruguai. He was placed on the list of the year’s best in 1993 and 1994 for his interpretation of Manuel de Falla’s Harpsichord Concerto (Jornal do Brasil). He has recorded the CDs: Marcelo Fagerlande no Museu Imperial [Marcelo Fagerlande at the Imperial Museum], considered “one of the best – if not the best – album of early music ever produced in Brazil.” (Folha de São Paulo, 1995); Laura Rónai & Marcelo Fagerlande (1995); Telemann Kammermusik (1999, Germany) and Bach e Pixinguinha [Bach and Pixinguinha] (Núcleo Contemporâneo label), released in 2001 and which has already sold over 8 thousand copies.

Reviews

“um dos maiores cravistas do Brasil.”
Revista Early Music America

“Fagerlande deixou impressões memoráveis…”
Ludwigsburger Zeitung”, Alemanha, 1983.

“muito boa impressão causou este disco saído de estúdios brasileiros”
Oscar Ledesma, “Revista Música & CD”, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995

“virtuosismo na trilha de Kirkpatrick…pode-se afirmar, sem medo, que foi a melhor apresentação desta primeira série da Villa (Maurina)”
Victor Giudice, “Jornal do Brasil”, 1996

“um dos mais brilhantes instrumentistas de música histórica em atividade no Brasil…”(Luís Antônio Giron,
Gazeta Mercantil”, 1996

“Fagerlande brilhou com esplêndida destreza digital, refinamento técnico e expressividade convincente”
Aalener Nachrichten, Alemanha, 2000

Technique

Mário Sève – sax e flauta
Marcelo Fagerlande – cravo
Produzido por Mário Sève, Marcelo Fagerlande e Paulo Brandão. Arranjos e adaptações: Mário Sève e Marcelo Fagerlande.
Gravação: Paulo Brandão na Capela do Fórum de Ciência e Cultura da UFRJ em fevereiro de 1998, Rio de Janeiro.
Edição e mixagem: Paulo Brandão no Brand Studio, Rio de Janeiro.
Lançado pelo Núcleo Contemporâneo em novembro de 2001.