This record presents a selection of songs by three South American composers; two of them, Braga and Villa-Lobos, are Brazilians, Guastavino is Argentine. The name Villa-Lobos is widely known, as he considered the main exponent of South American music in our century.

His astonishing success in Paris during the twenties can be easily explained: the spontaneous and naïve combination of the exotic traits of his vernacular musical idiom (based on folk music) with traditional European music was enthusiastically appreciated. Through the interrelation of the two traditions he helped to establish South American music in its own right.