1935

Brazilian pianist and composer Luiz Levy passes away on January 16th.

January 16. A recital by Candido Botelho (vocals) and Maria do Carmo (piano) featuring works by Schumann, Gounod, Schubert, Ravel (Cinq mélodies populaires grecques) and Villa-Lobos (Viola quebrada (No. 6 from Canções típicos brasileiras) and Xangô (No. 4 from Canções típicos brasileiras)). Candido Botelho (vocals) and Camargo Guarnieri (piano) performed songs by Camargo Guarnieri: Modinha triste; and Quatro trovas in their world premiere - I. Na rua, II. Pitanga madura, III. Lua cheia, IV. Natal na roça. Candido Botelho (vocals) and Fructuoso Vianna (piano) performed Quatro canções do folclore brasileiro collected by Mário de Andrade and harmonized by Fructuoso Vianna (in their world premiere) - I. Prenda minha, II. Ma Malia, III. Refrão do mutum, IV. Chula Paroara. Maria do Carmo performed solo piano pieces by Bach-Busoni (Chaconne), Scriabin, Tcherepnine, Debussy, and De Falla. TMSP. [access the program here] February 28.

February 28. Death of pianist, composer, and conductor Francisca Gonzaga (Chiquinha Gonzaga).

March 21. Concert in homage to the 250th anniversary of the birth of J. S. Bach and Handel with orchestra conducted by Ernst Mehlich, featuring pianists Souza Lima and Irene da Cunha Bueno as soloists, by the São Paulo Society of Artistic Culture.

March 28. Recital by the São Paulo Quartet of the Conservatory, with the participation of pianist Ernst Mehlich, by the São Paulo Society of Artistic Culture.

April 12. Concert with orchestra conducted by Ernst Mehlich, featuring soloist Alonso Annibal da Fonseca, by the São Paulo Society of Artistic Culture.

April 20. Guiomar Novaes' recital featuring works by Scarlatti (3 Sonatas), Schubert-Tausig, Bach (unidentified Toccata, probably the Toccata in D major), Paradise (Toccata), Halffter (Sonata in D major), De Falla, Chopin (5 Etudes and 4 other pieces). Theatro Polytheama, Jundiá (SP). [access the program here] April 23.

April 23. Benno Moiseiwitsch's recital featuring works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Poulenc, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Stravinsky, and Liszt.

April 25. TMRJ. April 25. Benno Moiseiwitsch's recital featuring works by Beethoven (Sonata No. 14), Schumann (Carnival), Chopin (5 pieces), Liszt (2 pieces), Schubert-Liszt, and Wagner Liszt.

April 27. TMRJ. April 27. Recital by Benno Moiseiwitsch with works by Chopin (22 pieces, including 8 Preludes, Sonata No. 2 and 11 Studies from Op.

April 30. 10 and Op. 25). TMRJ. April 30. Recital by Benno Moiseiwitsch.

May 4. TMRJ. May 4. Recital by Herrmann Weil (cello) and Hans Heinrich Peyser (piano) with works by De Fesch (Sonata), Haydn, Richard Strauss (Sonata for piano and cello), Cassado, Glazunov, Popper. Hall of the Pelotas Music Conservatory, RS. [[access the program here], available at the UFPel Music Documentation Center] May 6.

May 6. Recital by Benno Moiseiwitsch for the São Paulo Artistic Culture Society.

May 8. Benno Moiseiwitsch solos Chopin's Concerto No. 2. Rachmaninoff, with orchestra conducted by Francisco Mignone.

May 14. TMRJ. May 14. Recital by Guiomar Novaes with works by Scarlatti (2 Sonatas), Schubert-Tausig, Beethoven (Sonata No. 32), Chopin (5 pieces), Kaster (Sonata in D), Camargo Guarnieri (Choro Torturado), Rachmaninoff, Ravel (Alborada del Gracioso), De Falla, Albéniz. Club Campineiro, Campinas. [access the program here] May 25.

May 25. Tomás Terán solos Schumann's Concerto, with orchestra conducted by Lorenzo Fernandez. TMRJ.

June 5. Amelie Petersen solos Beethoven's Concerto No. 5 "Emperor," with orchestra conducted by Joanídia Sodré. TMRJ. June 12.

June 12. Recital by Guiomar Novaes with works by Bach (Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, and Toccata in G major), Bach (possibly in a transcription by Myra Hess), Liszt (Sonata), and Chopin (5 pieces). TMRJ. [access the program here] June 13.

June 13. Alonso Annibal da Fonseca solos one of Chopin's concertos, with orchestra conducted by H. Spedini. TMRJ.

June 15. Recital by Guiomar Novaes with works by Scarlatti (two Sonatas), Schubert-Tausig, Gluck-Saint-Saëns, Chopin (Sonata No. 2), Ravel (Alborada del gracioso), Rachmaninoff, De Falla, Albéniz (2 pieces). TMRJ. [access the program here] June 17th.

June 17. Recital by Frédéric Lamond (former student of Liszt) with works by Beethoven (Sonata No. 21), Brahms (Paganini Variations), Chopin, Liszt, Paganini-Liszt, and Anton Rubinstein.

June 19. TMRJ. June 19th. Recital by Frédéric Lamond (former student of Liszt) with works by Bach (Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue), Mozart (Sonata No. 10), Beethoven (8 Variations on a Theme from The Ruins of Athens), Chopin, Schumann (Carnival). National Institute of Music, Rio de Janeiro. [access the program here] June 21st.

June 21. Radamés Gnattali solos his Piano Concerto No. 1 (world premiere) with an unidentified orchestra conducted by H. Spedini. TMRJ. June 22nd. Recital by Guiomar Novaes performing works by Hallfter (first performance in Rio de Janeiro of the Sonata in D major), Mendelssohn-Ritter, Fructuoso Vianna (Four Miniatures, from the Seven Miniatures), Chopin (the 3 Posthumous Etudes, plus 3 pieces), Octávio Pinto (Children's Scenes), Francisco Mignone (Sertaneja Legend No.

June 22. 7), Dinorá de Carvalho (Little Soldiers, in its first performance), Lorenzo Fernandez (The Fairy of the Woods), and Camargo Guarnieri (Tortured Choro, in its first performance in Rio de Janeiro). [access the program here]

July 7. TMRJ. [access the program here] July 7th. Recital with works by Camargo Guarnieri in their first performance. Júlia da Silva Monteiro performed 10 Ponteios. Cristina Maristany performed, accompanied by the author himself, the songs Prece lírica, No fundo dos meus olhos, Dem bao, Oração no Saco de Mangaratiba, O impossível carinho and Sai aruê. Leopoldo Miguez Hall, National School of Music, Rio de Janeiro.

July 12. Recital by Maria Amelia Rezende Martins (piano), Daniil Karpilowski (violin), Paulina d'Ambrosio (violin), Edmundo Blois (viola), Alfredo Gomes (cello), Iberê Gomes Grosso (cello), Antonio Leopardi (double bass) by the Cultura Artística do Rio de Janeiro (probably TMRJ).

July 13. Recital by Guiomar Novaes performing works by Beethoven (Sonata No. 32), Schumann (Carnival), Debussy (5 pieces). TMRJ. [access the program here] July 17.

July 17. Claudio Arrau's recital features works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms (Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel), Albéniz, De Fala, and Debussy.

July 20. TMRJ. July 20. Claudio Arrau's recital features works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann (Fantasia Op. 17), Ravel, and Debussy.

July 23. TMRJ. July 23. Claudio Arrau's recital features works by Bach, Beethoven (Eroica Variations), Liszt, Bartók, Ravel, and Debussy. [access the program here]

July 25. TMRJ. [access the program here] July 25. Frank Smit (violin) and Fritz Jank (piano)'s recital features works by Brahms (Sonatas No. 1, No.

July 27. 2, and No. 3 for violin and piano). TMSP. July 27. Recital by Guiomar Novaes performing works by Chopin (Sonata No. 3, among other pieces), Kreisler-Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss-Godowsky (Symphonic Metamorphosis on The Bat).

July 28. TMRJ. July 28th. Recital by Claudio Arrau for the São Paulo Society of Artistic Culture.

July 29. July 29th. Recital by Alexander Borovsky.

August 5. TMRJ. August 5th. Recital by Claudio Arrau for the São Paulo Society of Artistic Culture.

August 5. August 5th. Recital by Francisco de Paula Fabião Jor. with works by Beethoven (Sonata No. 23), Granados (Allegro de concerto), Schubert-Heller, Ibert, Anton Rubinstein, Chopin (3 pieces), Liszt. Hall of the Pelotas Conservatory of Music, RS. [[access the program here], available at the UFPel Music Documentation Center] August 6th.

August 6. Recital by Tomás Terán (piano), Daniil Karpilowski (violin), Paulina d'Ambrosio (violin), Edmundo Blois (viola) and Iberê Gomes Grosso (cello) by Cultura Artística do Rio de Janeiro (probably TMRJ).

August 19. Recital by Guiomar Novaes with works by Scarlatti (2 Sonatas), Bach-Moor, Schubert-Tausig, Chopin (7 pieces), Halffter (Sonata in D major), Mendelssohn-Ritter, Octavio Pinto (Children's Scenes). Theatro Municipal João Caetano, Niterói (RJ). [access the program here] August 22.

August 22. Guiomar Novaes' recital featuring works by Bach (Fantasy with Fugue - perhaps the Toccata in D major), Beethoven (Theme and Variations), Chopin (5 pieces), Halffter (Sonata in D major), Mendelssohn-Ritter, Albéniz. Theatro D. Pedro, Petrópolis (RJ). [access the program here] September 3rd.

September 3. Ernani Braga's recital featuring works by Villa-Lobos (Moreninha, from A prole do bebê No. 1; and Farrapos), Francisco Mignone (Quebradinho), João Nunes (Caixinha de música), Ernani Braga (Variations on a [Brejeiro] motif by Ernesto Nazareth). Vera Janacopulos (soprano) and Ernani Braga (piano) performed works by Campra, Lully, Mozart, De Falla, Hekel Tavares (Saudade), Villa-Lobos (Seresta No. 9 "Abril"), an unidentified composer (perhaps Alberto Nepomuceno) (Trovas), and Ernani Braga (arrangement of A casinha pequenina). Hall of the Association of Commercial Employees (probably Rio de Janeiro). [access the program here] September 9th.

September 9. Recital by Claudio Arrau for the Artistic Culture of Rio de Janeiro (probably TMRJ).

September 25. September 25th. Radio Tupi, founded by Assis Chateaubriand and belonging to Diários Associados since its creation, is inaugurated. The radio's nickname was "Cacique do ar" (Chief of the Air), and its initial prefix was PRG-3, or simply G-3. Ary Barroso was one of the pianists hired by the radio station in the 1940s.

September 26. Rio de Janeiro.

September 26. Recital by Fritz Jank. TMSP. October 3. Recital by Guiomar Novaes with works by Bach, Liszt (Sonata), Chopin.

October 8. TMSP. October 8. Recital by Mieczyslaw Munz for the São Paulo Society of Artistic Culture.

October 11. Recital by Mieczyslaw Munz, with works by Bach, Beethoven (Sonata No. 23), Weber-Tausig, Chopin, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Schubert-Liszt, Paganini-Liszt. [access the program here]

October 12. TMRJ. [access the program here] October 12. José Vieira Brandão solos the Suite for piano and orchestra, 2nd movement "To Brazil", by Heitor Villa-Lobos, with orchestra conducted by the composer.

October 12. TMRJ. October 12th. Recital by Guiomar Novaes with works by Glück-Saint-Saëns, Scarlatti (2 Sonatas), Beethoven-Rubinstein, Chopin (5 pieces), Octavio Pinto (Scenes from Childhood), Liszt (2 pieces). [access the program here]

October 20. Bauru (SP). [access the program here] October 20th. José Vieira Brandão performs as soloist with the Municipal Orchestra, conducted by Villa-Lobos (unknown repertoire).

October 22. TMRJ. October 22nd. Recital by Dyla Josetti with works by Glück-Friedman, Beethoven-Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Chopin (4 pieces), Albéniz-Godowsky, Lecuona, Moszkowski, Liszt (2 pieces). Pelotas Music Conservatory, RS. [[access the program here], available at the UFPel Music Documentation Center] October 26.

October 26. Souza Lima solos a Mozart concerto with the Theatro Municipal Orchestra conducted by Villa-Lobos.

November 3. TMRJ. November 3. Recital by Alexander Borovsky for the São Paulo Artistic Culture Society.

November 4. Alexander Borovsky solos Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin with the Theatro Municipal Orchestra conducted by Villa-Lobos.

November 8. TMRJ. November 8. Recital by Dyla Josetti with works by Saint-Saëns (Concerto No. 2, with Professor Milton de Lemos on second piano), Seeboeck, Garland, Debussy, Glück-Saint-Saëns, Chopin (4 pieces), Liszt. Pelotas Music Conservatory, RS. [[access the program here], available at the UFPel Music Documentation Center] November 13th.

November 13. Mário Neves solos Liszt's Concerto No. 1, with the Theatro Municipal Orchestra conducted by Villa-Lobos.

November 19. TMRJ. November 19th. João Octaviano solos Henrique Oswald's Concerto for piano and orchestra, with the Theatro Municipal Orchestra conducted by Villa-Lobos.

November 19. TMRJ. November 19th. Recital by Vitalina Brazil with works by Bach-Busoni, Beethoven (Sonata No. 12), Chopin (2 pieces), Debussy (2 pieces), Francisco Mignone (Lenda sertaneja No. 4), Henrique Oswald (Bebé s'endort), Villa-Lobos (Saudades das selvas brasileiras No. 2), Mussorgsky (last 2 pieces from Pictures at an Exhibition). Hall of the Pelotas Music Conservatory, RS. [[access the program here], available at the UFPel Music Documentation Center] November 29.

November 29. Recital by the São Paulo Trio, formed by Souza Lima (piano), Zlatopolsky (violin) and Corazza (cello), by the São Paulo Artistic Culture Society.

December 12. Recital by Frank Smit (violin) and Fritz Jank (piano). José de Alencar Theater, Fortaleza (CE).

December 15. Recital by Mário Neves. TMRJ.