Música Nova do Brasil – Sérgio Assad solo

Música Nova do Brasil – Sérgio Assad solo

1981 / Pro-Memus

Música Nova do Brasil marks the first solo album released solely by Sérgio Assad. It documents the award-winning works in the guitar category of the 1st National Composition Competition for Guitar and Piano (1978/79), organized by Irmãos Vitale Publishing in partnership with Funarte. The album presents a representative anthology of contemporary Brazilian compositions for guitar, highlighting the maturity and aesthetic diversity of this tradition in the country.

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2009

Originis – Sérgio & Odair Assad with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

Recorded live in Brazil, Originis marks the world premiere of the title composition by Sérgio Assad, written for violin, two guitars, and orchestra. It is performed by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, the Assad Duo, and the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra under conductor John Neschling. Divided into five movements—Tarantella, Canzona, Baião Chorado, Modinha, and Finale—the suite offers a musical journey celebrating the performers' cultural roots, blending European classical elements with Brazilian lyricism and rhythms. The performance showcases Sérgio's fluid orchestral writing and the strong synergy between the soloists.

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2007

Jardim Abandonado

In their seventh album for Nonesuch, Jardim Abandonado, Sérgio and Odair present a selection of pieces from their performance repertoire of the past ten years. The album was nominated for two Latin Grammy Awards, including Best Classical Album, and won in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for Sérgio Assad's Tahhiyya Li Ossoulina. The album pays tribute to Brazilian master Antônio Carlos Jobim, featuring three of his compositions, along with original works by Sérgio Assad, his daughter Clarice Assad, and transcriptions of pieces by Darius Milhaud and Claude Debussy.

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2000

Three Double Concertos

This album presents three contemporary concertos for guitar and orchestra, all in world premiere recordings. Greek guitarist Costas Cotsiolis and Cuban violinist Isel Rodriguez Trujillo perform Omaggio a Paganini by Leo Brouwer; Sérgio and Odair Assad premiere the Concerto for Two Guitars by Edino Krieger, specially commissioned for this project; and Argentine guitarist Eduardo Isaac joins bandoneonist Marcelo Nisinman for Piazzolla's Concerto for Guitar and Bandoneón. Performed with the Córdoba Orchestra under the baton of Leo Brouwer.

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1995

White Moon: Songs to Morpheus

An album by American soprano Dawn Upshaw featuring works spanning four centuries in a collection dedicated to Morpheus, the god of sleep. With a mystical and dreamlike atmosphere, the repertoire weaves through different periods and styles, incorporating, among other sounds, the guitars of Sérgio and Odair Assad.

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