AMAZONIA Simone Menezes, conductor Sebastiao Salgado, Images Camila Provenzale, Soprano Villa-Lobos and Philip Glass
Amazonia includes a CD recording with the Zurich Philharmonia, allowing listeners to rediscover the major piece "Floresta do Amazonas" by Villa-Lobos combined with Philip Glass's music. The concert has toured with major orchestras all around the world. “BEAUTY PUNCH! the music of Villa-Lobos and the images of Salgado. One would think that each note of the score was thought for the project which is taking shape before our eyes ... impossible to describe by words the force of the meeting between images and this music. A total osmosis reigns from start to finish, to which the vibrant direction, full of colors and relief, but never flashy, of Simone Menezes - what a discovery this artist is!(Concert Classic)
Sebastião Salgado’s photographs of the rainforest combined with music with Amazonian connections in this powerful and moving concert featuring the Britten Sinfonia under Simone Menezes ,indelible memories ! (The Guardian)