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Where are you, Alvaro? – part 1
It's true, I've been missing from the social media - to some extent, from my website as well - since late 2018. But I will explain, in parts, why I was away. In early 2018 I was working in the Distrito Federal State Government, in governor`s Rodrigo Rollemberg...
Watch the most important guitar competition in the world – live!
The most important classical guitar competition in the world has just begun, the International Concert Artist Competition organized by the Guitar Foundation of America, and it is possible to watch it on facebook - also live. This event happens each year in a different...
Video Guitar Through the Ages COMPLETE (free)
It was very special for me making the DVD "Guitar Through the Ages". This project allowed me the opportunity to show pieces of music from the arrival of Europeans in the Americas to present day on the instruments of each era. The project, funded by the DF's Culture...
Hommage pour le toumbeau de Debussy – an intense work about life and death (video)
The genesis of Hommage pour le tombeau de Debussy is to be found in the death of Claude Debussy, when Henri Prunierers, editor of the Parisian music journal "Le Revue Musicale", asked numerous composers among them Stravinsky, Satie, Bartok and Falla to compose...
How melodies are composed (part 2) (video)
In this "Music Talks" I expand one of the ideas I mentioned on our first video, about how melodies are composed (watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSevH-nSTvQ). On the first video, I focused on "universal" features that lead to the creation of melodies, such...
Andante op. 241 no 18, by Carulli: an easy and beautiful piece (video)
Ferdinando Carulli's Andante Opus 241 n. 18 is an easy piece of music, accessible to beginner guitarrists, and also very beautiful. I have a special relation to it, as it was the very first piece I playied in front of an audience, in a student concert of the music...
Music Talks… what’s the “classical” guitar (video)
What is the classical guitar? Why is it called so? Because it is "classical", is it a different instrument from a guitar? Get answers to those questions and also know a little bit about the classical guitar and its curiosities: did you know it used strings made of gut...
Manuel de Falla | Miller’s Dance (Danza Del Molinero) | video
Manuel de Falla is one of the main Spanish composers. Among his most important works there are ballets and operas. One of these ballets is El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Pointed Hat), whose story is about a love triangle involving a miller, his wife, and the...
Music Talks…. Melody (video)
Melody is a very special component of music. So special it is, that many confuse melody with the music itself. How often have we heard things like "I like this music because of its melody" or "This melody is so beautiful, therefore I like this music"? But, although we...
“Irmas Cajazeiras” competing at Brazil’s National Radio Music Festival 2018
Irmãs Cajazeiras, music by Diana Mota, played by Diana Mota (flute), Alvaro Henrique (guitar) and Renato Vieira (percussion), is competing at the Brazil's National Radio Music Festival 2018. On a recent "Nights from Pernambuco", an annual party that takes place...
LANÇAMENTOS – DESTAQUE PARA O PIANO DE OSVALDO LACERDA (ÁUDIO/ PODCAST)
Novos lançamentos da música clássica no Brasil, com destaque para a música para piano de Osvaldo Lacerda.
PERFEITA MISTURA… (VIDEO)
Quando começa a música clássica e quando começa o jazz?
ENTREVISTA COM CLAUDIA COSTA (AUDIO/ PODCAST)
A soprano Cláudia Costa, em entrevista, fala sobre seu novo CD, Lírica Brasiliensis vol. 2, do álbum anterior, sobre canto, e outros assuntos.
TENDRE, DE CLAUDE BOLLING (VIDEO)
Há momentos em que tudo que a gente precisa ouvir é uma bela melodia…
ENTREVISTA COM MARCO AURÉLIO BRITO COUTINHO (ÁUDIO/ PODCAST)
Uma entrevista com o compositor Marco Aurélio Brito Coutinho, que nos conta de suas obras e trajetória desde o Madrigal de Brasília aos dias atuais, ao som de composições para canto, coro e cordas.
LANÇAMENTOS 2018 I (ÁUDIO/ PODCAST)
Dando destaque a novos lançamentos de música clássica, vamos ouvir faixas do CD Brincadeira a Cinco, do Quinteto de Brasília (músicas de Amaral Vieira, Arthur Bosmans e Liduíno Pitombeira); do CD Oboé do Brasil (músicas de Sérgio Nogueira, Liduíno Pitombeira e Rodrigo...
SE BACH DESSE UMA PASSEADINHA NO SUL DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, TALVEZ SAÍSSE ALGO ASSIM… (VIDEO)
Se Bach desse uma passeadinha no sul dos Estados Unidos, talvez saísse algo assim…
ENTREVISTA COM DIEGO SCHUCK, DA OSUCS (ÁUDIO/ PODCAST)
Nesse programa, uma entrevista com Diego Schuck, da Orquestra Sinfônica da Universidade de Caxias do Sul (OSUCS), que integra os vários programas que a Universidade possui em prol da formação artístico-cultural da cidade e da região, ao som de Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,...
MÚSICA DOS PAÍSES DOS FINALISTAS DA COPA DO MUNDO DA RÚSSIA (ÁUDIO/ PODCAST)
Chegou o dia da grande final da Copa do Mundo da Rússia! Para celebrar, vamos ouvir música dos dois países finalistas, a França e a Croácia Ouça em https://soundcloud.com/alvarohenrique/bravo-138-150718-musica-dos-paises-que-participaram-da-copa-do-mundo-parte-5 Todos...
Brasília 50, by Jorge Antunes
Escrito em 2009, essa obra dinâmica para violão e tape, de Jorge Antunes, trata de eventos históricos, políticos e culturais, desde 1960. O áudio gravado inclui entrevistas, discursos, notícias, relacionados a cada evento, como um discurso de John F Kennedy no ano de...
