FLAUSINO VALE: 26 Preludes for Solo Violin | Antal Zalai, violin 🎵 classical music

Flausino Vale (1894-1954), the "Brazilian Paganini" (as Heitor Villa-Lobos called him) was a Brazilian violinist, composer, and a major researcher on Brazilian folk music. His primary profession was a lawyer, but he also taught music history at the Conservatório Mineiro de Música. Inspired by Paganini, he composed an album of 26 Preludes for solo violin in a Brazilian landscape style.
Vale began his violin studies in 1904 with his uncle, João Augusto de Campos, disciple of Manuel Joaquim de Macedo, follower of the Léonard and Vieuxtemps' school.
In 1912, Flausino Vale moved to Belo Horizonte, the growing new Capital of the Minas Gerais State. He gave up boosting his artistic career in Rio de Janeiro in 1918 due to the Influenza A epidemic. He remained in Belo Horizonte, where he got a degree in Law in 1923, working as a lawyer until 1943. However, in 1922, he took the last year exams at the National Institute of Music, which recognised the completion of his musical studies.
Flausino Vale was the leader of the Society for Symphonic Concerts since its inception in 1925, a position he held for a decade, where he has also performed as a soloist. In 1934, already recognised for his musical prominence, he was given the chair of The History of Music and National Folklore by Levindo Furquim Lambert, the Director of the Minas Gerais Conservatory of Music in Belo Horizonte.
Vale committed his life in this discipline, publishing "Elements of Brazilian musical folklore" in 1936 and "Musicians of Minas Gerais" in 1938. Despite acquiring fame on the violin, he had few violin students for only one semester.

No 1 Batuque / Drumming (A Jacinto de Meis, 1922) 00:00
No 2 Suspiro d'alma / Soul sigh (A Francisco Chiafitelli, 1923) 00:49
No 3 Devaneio / Daydream (A Raul Laranjeira, 1924) 02:40
No 4 Brado intimo / Intimate (A Jose de Matos, 1924) 03:45
No 5 Tico-tico / Tico-tico (a bird) (A Marcos Salles, 1926) 05:17
No 6 Marcha funebre / Funeral march (Em memoria de 1, meu tio Vicente 2, Ernesto Ronchini, 1927) 07:04
No 7 Sonhando / Dreaming (A Leonidas Autuori, 1929) 09:28
No 8 Repente / Impromptu (A Torquato Amore, 1924) 11:38
No 9 Rondo domestico / Domestic rondo (A Edgardo Guerra, amigo e maestro, 1933) 13:19
No 10 Interrogando o destino / Interrogating the fate (1, A Zino Francescatti 2, A Juan Rodrigues, o virtuoso do violao, 1933) 15:13
No 11 Casamento na roca / Country wedding (A Nicolino Milano, 1933) 19:20
No 12 Canto da inhuma / Inhuma song (a bird) (A Oscar Borgeth, 1935) 21:20
No 13 Asas inquietas / Restless wings (A Ernest N. Doring) 23:54
No 14 A porteira da fazenda / The farm gate (A Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1933) 26:31
No 15 Ao pe da fogueira / Around the campfire (A Agnelo Franca) 28:44
No 16 Requiescat in Pace / Rest in peace (Para Augusta de Campos Vale) 30:03
No 17 Viola Destemida / Fearless fiddle (A Ruggiero Ricci) 31:59
No 18 Pai Joao / Father St. John (A Jascha Heifetz, 1939) 33:57
No 19 Folguedo campestre / Country play (A Franscico Mignone) 36:56
No 20 Tirana riograndense / Tirana from Rio Grande do Sul (A Renato Almeida, 1942) 39:22
No 21 Preludio da vitoria / Prelude of the Victory (A Paulina d'Ambrosio, 1945) 41:37
No 22 Mocidade eterna / Eternal youth (A Orlando Frederico, 1935) 43:52
No 23 Implorando / Imploring (A Claudio Santoro, 1931) 45:55
No 24 Viva Sao Joao / Hurrah! Saint John! (A Isaac Stern, 1938) 47:38
No 25 A mocinha e o papudo / The young lady and the chatterer (A Henryk Szeryng, 1940) 49:57
No 26 Acalanto / Berceuse (A Esteban Eitler) 52:42

Antal Zalai, violin • Budapest, October 2023.
This unedited recording was made in a storage room.
Equipment used: iPhone 12; Shure MV88 microphone.
Professional audio recording of the same pieces will take place soon.

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[luizmoretto]

A Brazilian soul in these interpretations! Bravo👋

[samueldemello]

Bravo! Muito obrigado por isso!
Fico feliz em ver a música clássica brasileira para violino ser conhecida no mundo!

Recomendo os 24 Caprichos Latino-americanos do compositor Arthur Barbosa. Tenho certeza que você vai gostar.

Brazilian Greetings

[joaogonsauros]

I get very happy for seeing you interpreting the music from our country!! Muito obrigado pela sua grande homenagem! Abraços!

[dm-jzse]

wow this is fascinating...bravo bravo. 👏

[AntonioCerqueira-fubn]

Come to Barbacena, please, to do a recital in the land of Flausino Vale!

[shobarsch]

Wonderful! Are you coming to Germany sometime soon??

[tresfort]

Any plans to come to Vancouver, BC? Phenomenal violin playing!

[joanheitzinger]

Wow! Love everything about this recording!

[xNeoGenesis]

Going from the outfit and video topic, are you perhaps by any chance currently in Brazil? On the topic of the video, I loved the pieces! It's always great to discover some generally unknown works that are terrific and divulging them is always very appreciated by me.

[pympym]

What are all these booklets around him all about ? I'd like to get one. Besides that, the music is very pleasant. Thank you for posting it.

[wise_eye]

Is it gut strings you use in this video?👀 Just interesting

[hugoandore]

Pido perdón de antemano, no pretendo faltarle el respeto al compositor y mucho menos al hermosísimo país de Brasil con este comentario, pero estos preludios son muy feos 😅. Antal Zalai un genio como siempre, no tengo nada qué criticarle a él ni a su interpretación, la cual es obviamente impecable. Pero estas piezas para violín solo son una más fea que la otra. Perdón. 😂😂 Algunas hasta dan risa de lo feas que son. 😂 No sé si habrá sido esa la intención del compositor, pero por lo menos eso es lo que me provoca a mí.