Music of Tribute is a Labor Records historic series that pays homage to great composers by linking their works with musicÐoften unknown, rediscovered or previously...

Music of Tribute is a Labor Records historic series that pays homage to great composers by linking their works with musicÐoften unknown, rediscovered or previously unrecorded that pays tribute to them through dedication, homage or thematic reference. Tribute to Villa-Lobos, performed by the Brazilian pianist Martins, is the first recording in the series and features works by the great Brazilian master and by a group of composers from Brazil, Portugal, Austria, Spain and Cuba via the United States. Like Villa-Lobos himself, these works cover a diverse range of styles, popular and experimental, that evoke the spirit of their distinguished predecessor and allow the older works to be heard in a new way...By sprinkling these pieces among a handful of pertinent Villa-Lobos works, Martins deftly sets up the composer's initial statements and their echoes in a way that imposes a fluid structural coherence. It not only captures the subject, but gives him room to breathe." - Ken Smith, Gramophone