Great Brazilian Samba hits by the best-known Brazilian composers. Tune into the festival of pulsating music, dance, colours and excitement with fourteen tracks from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! Booklet info in English, German and French.
Carnival in Rio - cheerful dancing in the streets, a colourful ocean of lights, elaborately decorated floats with the most gorgeous Carnival Queens… and over, under and around all this, like a carpet of sound, keeping your blood boiling - the omnipresent pulse of SAMBA.
Samba provides the heart-pulse of the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The Carnival was introduced to Brazil by Portuguese colonists but gradually became the realm of the Afro-Brazilian population. Today, Samba schools, the escolas, spend months of work in preparations for this one occasion. Every year new samba songs are written especially for the carnival, thus keeping the genre alive and fresh.