Canto da Saudade Cármelo de los Santos & Ney Fialkow

• Alexandre Levy (1864 - 1892): Tango brasileiro (Arr. for Violin and Piano by João de Souza Lima):
• 1 Lévy: Tango brasileiro (Arr. for Violin and Piano by João de Souza Lima) 03:24
• João de Souza Lima (1898 - 1982): Capricho rústico:
• 2 Lima: Capricho rústico 04:08
• Marlos Nobre (1939 - 2024): Desafio III, Op. 31 No. 3a:
• 3 Nobre: Desafio III, Op. 31 No. 3a 06:17
• Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959): A lenda do caboclo, W 166 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by João de Souza Lima):
• 4 Villa-Lobos: A lenda do caboclo, W 166 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by João de Souza Lima) 04:17
• Francisco Braga (1868 - 1945): Canto da saudade:
• 5 Braga: Canto da saudade 04:30
• Oscar Lorenzo Fernández (1897 - 1948): Romança, Op. 8:
• 6 Fernández: Romança, Op. 8 02:57
• Francisco Mignone (1897 - 1986): Valsa de esquina No. 2:
• 7 Mignone: Valsa de esquina No. 2 04:52
• Camargo Guarnieri (1907 - 1993): Encantamento:
• 8 Guarnieri: Encantamento 05:59
• Francisco Mignone (1897 - 1986): Passarinho está cantando:
• 9 Mignone: Passarinho está cantando 01:42
• Luiz Cosme (1908 - 1965): Brincando de pegar:
• 10 Cosme: Brincando de pegar 02:21
• Carlos Gomes (1836 - 1896): Al chiaro di luna:
• 11 Gomes: Al chiaro di luna 02:35
• Francisco Mignone: Variações sobre um tema brasileiro:
• 12 Mignone: Variações sobre um tema brasileiro 06:59
• Ronaldo Miranda (b. 1948): Recitativo, variações e fuga:
• 13 Miranda: Recitativo, variações e fuga 07:49
• Radamés Gnattali (1906 - 1988): Flor da noite:
• 14 Gnattali: Flor da noite 03:24
• Total Runtime 01:01:14

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Cármelo de los Santos and Ney Fialkow follow their award-winning album "Sonatas Brasileiras" with a colorful exploration of unjustly neglected works for violin and piano by Brazilian composers.

"Canto da Saudade" delineates a sonic map that spreads beyond the best-known composers, surveying the Brazilian music of various periods and styles. By providing a window into over a hundred years of music, the duo illustrates just how much there is to explore in the history of Brazil, a continental country whose vastness is also translated to music. Spanning fourteen works by composers from Alexandre Levy and Carlos Gomes to Villa-Lobos, Guarnieri, Mignone, Gnattali, Nobre and Miranda, the program traces Brazilian music from 19th-century Romanticism through 20th-century nationalism and postwar modernism.

Both acclaimed figures on Brazil's musical scene, violinist Cármelo de los Santos and pianist Ney Fialkow balance busy careers as soloists and chamber musicians with teaching posts — de los Santos as Professor of Violin at the University of New Mexico, Fialkow as Full Professor at the Instituto de Artes, UFRGS, in Porto Alegre.

Cármelo de los Santos, violin
Ney Fialkow, piano

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Cármelo de los Santos
Brazilian-born violinist Cármelo de los Santos enjoys an exciting career as a soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. From his extensive concerto experience to his most recent performances of the 24 Caprices by Paganini and the Sonatas and Partitas by Bach, his virtuosity and commitment to communicate the essence of music captivates audiences worldwide. Cármelo has performed as a guest soloist with over 60 orchestras, including the New World Symphony, Santa Fe Pro-Musica, the Santa Fe and New Mexico Symphonies, the Montevideo Philarmonic, Orquestra Musica d’Oltreoceano (Rome), and the major orchestras in Brazil. Cármelo is a winner of several international competitions including the 4th Júlio Cardona International String Competition (Portugal). In 2002 Cármelo made his New York debut as soloist and conductor in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with the ARCO Chamber Orchestra. Cármelo is Professor of Violin at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and is the concertmaster of the New Mexico Philharmonic, holding the Karen McKinnon Concertmaster Chair. He regularly performs on several distinguished violins, Chris Pedersen (2024), Luiz Bellini (1987), Angelo Soliani (1791), and “Le Brun” Antonio Stradivari (1714).

Ney Fialkow
Winner of several piano competitions including the much-coveted Eldorado Music Prize in São Paulo,pianist Ney Fialkow conciliates a busy career as soloist and collaborative pianist with that of Full Professor in the Music Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he also obtained his Bachelor of Music performance degree, under Zuleika Rosa Guedes. His recital appearances have captivated audiences in many distinguished concert halls in his country and abroad. Dr. Fialkow has taught piano master classes at music schools and festivals throughout Brazil and internationally; he has also served as jury member for several reputed piano competitions. Under sponsorship from the Brazilian Government, Fialkow holds the Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory (Boston) under the guidance of Patricia Zander, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree, with distinction, from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Ann Schein. Ney Fialkow explores the repertoire of many styles and historical periods, and has premiered new works for piano in solo, chamber music and concerto genres. He made his debut at the age of 18 with the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, under the late Camargo Guarnieri. He has since appeared as soloist with prominent orchestras in Brazil and abroad, distinguished conductors including Isaac Karabtchevsky, Roberto Tibiriçá , Alceo Bocchino, Roberto Duarte, Antonio Carlos Borges Cunha, Manfredo Schimiedt, Fredi Gerling, Raul Munguia, and Paul Chou.

A devoted chamber musician, Ney Fialkow has collaborated extensively with a great number of internationally acclaimed musicians such as Cármelo de Los Santos, Hugo Pilger,Viktor Uzur, Marcos Machado, Joel Quarrington, Yang Liu, and Alexander Bailey, among many others. In 2006 he performed Brazilian chamber music with the Porto Alegre Trio and was chosen, along with Cármelo de los Santos and Hugo Pilger, to be among the few select chamber groups to present concerts in Berlin, in the Culture Cup Project sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil. Fialkow made his début in Paris in 2016 at the Salle Cortot of the École Normale de Musique, appearing in a two-piano concert with the acclaimed Georgian pianist Guigla Katsarava. As recording artist, Ney Fialkow released the CD Sonatas Brasileiras (Brazilian Sonatas) in collaboration with the acclaimed violinist Cármelo de los Santos, recorded live, which received the Açorianos Prize for Best Classical CD in 2009, cited as “one of the best chamber music recordings Brazil has ever produced.” In 2010 he was soloist in the premiere of Mahavidyas by Brazilian composer Vagner Cunha, as well as in the CD recording of the integral version of the work. His album Metamorfora, released in collaboration with double bassist Marcos Machado on the Blue Griffin label, was praised in Strad Magazine for the duo’s ‘fresh and lively rendition’ of Beethoven’s Variations on a Theme from Mozart’s Magic Flute. A second CD with bassist Marcos Machado, featuring works by Proto, Falla, Devreese, Korngold and Mozart, was released by Blue Griffin in 2018. In 2020, the album Claudio Santoro: the complete works for cello and piano, released with cellist Hugo Pilger, was nominated for best classical album of the 2021 Latin Grammy Awards.

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