Eliel Ferreira conducts Guarnieri, Tavares, Villa-Lobos, Ginastera

This concert by the Orquestra Sinfônica Jovem de Goiás—a guest at the 2024 Young Euro Classic festival—offers a musical journey into the heart of South America’s rich and diverse traditions. Through a vibrant program, the audience discovers the world of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos with his famous Bachianas Brasileiras, where Bach’s legacy blends with the rhythms and dances of Brazil. The orchestra also performs a suite from Estancia by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, evoking the energy and poetry of the Pampas landscape. As a soloist, violinist Guido Sant’Anna performs a concerto by Hekel Tavares, whose composition—heavily inspired by Brazilian folklore—completes this colorful musical portrait of the South American continent…