The first volume (Claves CD 50-2709) was a huge success; receiving; among other accolades; a Choc award from Monde de la Musique. Pianist Joanna Brzezinska is back with a new collection of solo pieces by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. In his preface; writer Etienne Barilier says it all in a few words. “Simple; sweetly naïve melodies and energetic; unrelenting rhythms carried by a boundless; surging vitality.

Such is Brazil – sentimental and powerful; ingenuous and wild; ineffably gentle and yet infinitely forceful. Heitor Villa-Lobos succeeded in all his works; and particularly in those gathered here; in bringing these extremes together: languor and vigour; the caressing hand and the closed fist; the sun and the moon.” As of the first bars; Joanna Brzezinska’s piano wafts you away…