From New York to Rio

The pianist Marcelo Bratke shows how the twentieth century opened up the world of music, offering unprecedented opportunities for cultural interchange, where diverse viewpoints and aesthetics created lines of communication between different people and distant cultures. Bratke's programme celebrates some of these imaginary lines -– from the influences of jazz and blues in the music of visionary American composers such as Gershwin, Copland, Barber and Cage to the echoes of samba and bossa-nova in the music of Brazilian composers Santoro, Villa-Lobos, Nazareth and Jobim.