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Songbook Pixinguinha 1 $33.00   The series “Classics of the Brazilian Choro – You are the Soloist!” enables you to discover the Choro style through the incomparable experience of performing the compositions yourself, accompanied by a Choro Ensemble. Each volume of the series features a famous composer of this amazing music style, including his/her main compositions in a digitally-mastered audio CD and a high-quality printed music book with the corresponding C and Bb scores, as well as interviews, biography, and relevance of the author to the history of Choro. Using the CD, listen to the complete stereo tracks (with soloists) for your reference. Tune your instrument (flute, sax, clarinet or mandolin) using the tuning notes. Now have fun being the soloist, using the accompaniment tracks featuring a leading Choro Ensemble from Brazil. Now you can play along with your own "Choro Ensemble," which will always be there for you, whether at home, on the road or at the beach. Have fun and good training!

Contents and some full stereo track audio clips:
A Vida é um Buraco Dudu Oliveira (flute)
Desprezado (duet) Carlos Malta (1st flute) and Leonardo Miranda (2nd flute)
Devagar e Sempre (duet) Daniel Allain (flute) and Teco Cardoso (tenor sax)
Diplomata (duet) Eduardo Neves (1st flute) and Franklin da Flauta (2nd flute)
Displicente (duet) Antonio Rocha (flute) and Daniela Spielmann (tenor sax)
Gargalhada Antonio Rocha (flute)
Gorjeando Teco Cardoso (flute)
Grilando Franklin da Flauta (flute)
Joaquim virou Padre (quarteto) Daniela Spielmann (tenor sax), Daniel Dalarossa (1st flute), Marcelo Bernardes (2nd flute) and Dirceu Leite (3rd flute)
Os Cinco Companheiros (duet) Andrea Ernest Dias (1st flute) and Mário Sève (2nd flute)
Recordações Andrea Ernest Dias (flute)
Sentimento Oculto (trio) Toninho Carrasqueira (1st flute), Léa Freire (2nd flute) and Daniel Dalarossa (3rd flute)

*Contents: Includes 1 CD with Choros played in 2 ways: complete tracks with solo and split tracks without solo for you to play along, plus scores for C and B flat instruments!


Credits:

Soloists
Andrea Ernest Dias – flute
Antonio Rocha – flute
Carlos Malta – flute
Daniel Allain – flute
Daniel Dalarossa – flute
Daniela Spielmann – tenor sax
Dirceu Leite – flute
Dudu Oliveira – flute
Eduardo Neves – flute
Franklin da Flauta – flute
Léa Freire – flute
Leonardo Miranda – flute
Marcelo Bernardes – flute
Mário Sève – flute
Teco Cardoso – tenor sax and flute
Toninho Carrasqueira – flute

Choro Ensemble Musicians
Alessandro Cardoso – cavaquinho
Charlles da Costa – 6-string guitar
Netinho Albuquerque – pandeiro
Paulão (7 cordas) – 7-string guitar

Arrangements for the choro ensemble (base music)
Alessandro Cardoso, Charlles da Costa, Paulão (7 cordas), Netinho Albuquerque and Daniel Dalarossa

Arrangement for Sentimento Oculto attributed to Radamés Gnattali for flute trio. Recorded live on May 18, 1968 and registered for the LP ‘Pixinguinha/70’ (Museu da Imagem e do Som – MIS) (Image and Sound Museum) as a tribute to Pixinguinha, kindly provided by the family.

Transcription of the three flutes in “Sentimento Oculto”
Alexandre Dias and Daniel Dalarossa

Transcription of the tenor saxophone in “Devagar e Sempre” and “Displicente”
Daniel Dalarossa

Edition and revision of scores
Tatiana Mazurek and Otávio Elias Dalarossa

Harmony transcription and revision
Marco Bertaglia

Recordings of the Choro Ensemble, editing, mixing, and mastering
Estúdio Umuarama, by Ricardo Calafate

Solo recordings
Estúdio Umuarama (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Estúdio 185 (São Paulo, Brazil), and Global Choro Music Studio (Fremont, CA)