Choros No. 2 is a composition of Heitor Villa-Lobos from 1924. The composition came about shortly after the composer returned from Paris and heard from here and there. Influences of Claude Debussy and Igor Strawinsky in particular are on the surface. The music does not seem to be composed but improvised. The two necessary musical instruments for this work, flute and clarinet diverge each other in a close fight or embrace, without leaving a basic idea behind. The style is both tonal and atonal with unobtrusive dissonants. Those two musical instruments chose the composer because they are the most important musical instruments in the chorosensembles next to the guitar.
The first performance took place in Theatro Sant'Anna, São Paulo on February 18, 1925.
Villa-Lobos later wrote a piano version, Ivan Scott extracted a version for guitar. Discography
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