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The Uirapuru, an Amazonian bird that’s the subject of one of Villa’s great orchestral works. This picture is from the blog of Olivier Bleys, who wrote a five-part radio play “Le Vert Paradis de Villa-Lobos,” recently broadcast on France Culture. Click here to hear the song of this “Musician Wren.”
You can hear the Symphonic Poem and Ballet Uirapuru performed by the Odense Symphony on a Bridge CD, in a great performance conducted by Eduardo Mata, and in the legendary Stokowski recording from the 1950s.