Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

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I have been listening to a lot of Hector Villa-Lobos. I really like his piano pieces of which I have the complete works on CD as well as a music book, a lot if which is crazy and impossible to play. The orchestral pieces are enjoyable but it is the works for small chamber works with their unusual combinations of unlikely instruments which fascinate. They are really quirky. I think the fact that he returned home to Brazil after working in France ensured that he remained obscure. When I listen to classical music, I do like the neo-classical stuff and find the likes of Prokofiev, Poulenc and some Martinu to be rewarding. All resided in Paris in 1920s but I think Villa-Lobos is not so well known even thought he coloured much of how Brazilian music sounded afterwards.
 
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