- Date: 1937
- Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Period: Modern (1910-1949)
Review
Who is distributing flowers, or why, is not explained in the printed score,but the music has a potent sense of ancient ritual, with the melodic
chant of the flute floating above fast, throbbing repeated chords played
"battente" (the hand, not just the fingers, striking across all six strings and sounding
like a distant drum). After a short, mysterious interlude for solo guitar
the thobbing, battente returns, winding down to pianissimo, a slow flute
arpeggio ... and silence. The effect is that of a pagan ceremony,
all the more powerful and strange for being unlike the lightweight music
usually assigned to the combination of flute and guitar. ~ Roy Brewer, All Music Guide
