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Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde: Orfeo Celeste
Andrés Alberto Gómez

La Reverencia - Andrés Alberto Gómez

Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde: Orfeo Celeste

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Format: CD
Label: Vanitas
UPC: 8436001539140
Catnr: VA 01
Release date: 17 April 2015
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Label
Vanitas
UPC
8436001539140
Catalogue number
VA 01
Release date
17 April 2015

""The matching of the instrumental sounds, the musical figures and ideas, everything is perfectly transparent and yet at the same time played in a vivid and vibrant manner, making it a true pleasure."

BR Klassik, 11-6-2015
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It is hard to describe the character of this music, the quality of the pieces is quite changeable due to the fact that Selma sometimes offers a sober style and others catches us unaware with fantasy, emotion and musical inventiveness. At the same time he shows a distinct reiteration regarding certain harmonic patterns and tones, however, the stylistic character of these compositions clearly shows the influence of the instrumental Venetian school of the first half of the XVII century. Not reaching the technical quality and extravagance level that canzonas of composers like Girolamo Frescobaldi or Giuseppe Guami have, the music of Selma doesn´t stop being a very particular example of the music of the XVII century since he is one of the most limited examples of instrumental Spanish music of that time that has arrived to us. Music that, using the words of the poet José Hierro:

{… It sounded with unrepeatable transparency
Several centuries ago
And what is now listened
Is an echo that arrives, crossing time,
With melancholy. }


Es ist schwer, den Charakter dieser Musik zu beschreiben: Man kann darin harmonische Muster erkennen, und der stilistische Charakter dieser Kompositionen trägt das eindeutige Zeichen der instrumentalen Venezianischen Schule der ersten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts, doch die Kompositionen sind oft auch unvorhersehbar. Mal schlägt Selma einen sehr nüchternen Ton an, dann wieder überrascht er uns mit Phantasie, Emotion und musikalischer Erfindungsfreude.
Il est difficile de décrire le caractère de cette musique; la qualité des pièces est très variable: le style est tantôt sobre, tantôt surprenant de fantaisie, d’émotion et d’invention musicale. Elle montre également une répétition marquée de certains patrons harmoniques et tonaux, cependant que la caractéristique stylistique des compositions met en évidence de manière indiscutable l’influence de l’école instrumentale vénitienne de la première moitié de XVIIème siècle. Sans atteindre le niveau de qualité technique ni les extravagances des canzonas d’un Girolamo Frescobaldi ou d’un Giuseppe Guami, la musique de Selma reste pourtant un exemple très particulier de la musique du XVIIème siècle car il s’agit d’un des exemples rarissimes de musique instrumentale “espagnole” de cette époque parvenue jusqu’à nous. Une musique qui, selon les mots du poète José Hierro:

[…Sonna avec une inimitable transparence
Il y a de ça plusieurs siècles
Et ce qu’on écoute maintenant
Est un écho qui arrive, à travers le temps,
Mélancoliquement.]

LA REVERENCIA
Manuel Pascual, cornetto
Pavel Amilcar, violon
Jorge Miró, viola da gamba
Thor Jorgen, viola da gamba
Pablo Zapico, archilaúd et guitare
Pedro Jesús Gómez, tiorba et guitare
Miguel Ángel Orero, percussion
Laura Puerto, clavecin et organe
Andrés Alberto Gómez, clavecin, organe et direction

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La Reverencia

Since its creation, La Reverencia has specialized in musical performance according to historical criteria. Trained at some of the most prestigious early music centres the ensemble is made up of musicians with a long international music career.   An emphasis on taking a new look at the early music, together with a search for natural spontaneity in performance, are top priorities for this ensemble, who pretend to show a music in many cases forgotten but that it is an undeniable part of our history. From that point of view La Reverencia born with the motivation of spread the music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Its projects always have highlight for offering new readings of those repertories,.   Their discography and critics endorse them...
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Since its creation, La Reverencia has specialized in musical performance according to historical criteria. Trained at some of the most prestigious early music centres the ensemble is made up of musicians with a long international music career.
An emphasis on taking a new look at the early music, together with a search for natural spontaneity in performance, are top priorities for this ensemble, who pretend to show a music in many cases forgotten but that it is an undeniable part of our history. From that point of view La Reverencia born with the motivation of spread the music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Its projects always have highlight for offering new readings of those repertories,.
Their discography and critics endorse them as one of the new and more promising Spanish ensembles. They have performed in many parts of Europe, participating in the major Early music festivals, always obtaining the unanimous support of critic and public.
In the last years they have work on the french and German repertoire with concerts dedicated to Rameau, Bach or Marais. In 2013 they shoted the film DE OCCULTA PHILOSOPHIA, a movie focused on baroque music that it was selected in several International Cinema Festivals as Buenos Aires (BAFICI 2013), Marseille (FIDMARSEILLE 2013), Sevilla (SEFF 2013). They created their own label: VANITAS (www.vanitasmusica.com) whereby in the las years the present their projects.

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Andrés Alberto Gómez (conductor)

He finished his harpsichord studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Holland) as a student of Jacques Ogg and at the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, E.S.M.U.C. as a student of Béatrice Martin, obtaining the highest distinction and congratulations from the jury. He has made recordings for the Dutch Radio, the Slovenian Radio-television, WDR 3, Radio Catalonia, the Polish Radio-television and the labels ARSIS, PASSACAILLE, DYNAMIC, TAÑIDOS and VANITAS. He is founder and director of the ensemble La Reverencia. His performances as soloist and continuist cover all of Europe. He has performed with several renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Tasto Solo or La Fura dels Baus, being directed by musicians such as William Christie, Paul Dombrecht, Paul...
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He finished his harpsichord studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Holland) as a student of Jacques Ogg and at the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, E.S.M.U.C. as a student of Béatrice Martin, obtaining the highest distinction and congratulations from the jury. He has made recordings for the Dutch Radio, the Slovenian Radio-television, WDR 3, Radio Catalonia, the Polish Radio-television and the labels ARSIS, PASSACAILLE, DYNAMIC, TAÑIDOS and VANITAS.

He is founder and director of the ensemble La Reverencia. His performances as soloist and continuist cover all of Europe. He has performed with several renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Tasto Solo or La Fura dels Baus, being directed by musicians such as William Christie, Paul Dombrecht, Paul McCreesh, Roy Goodman, Richard Egarr or Ton Koopman.

In 2013 he recorded together with La Reverencia De Oculta Philosophia, a documentary film around Baroque music that was selected at numerous international festivals. His discography has always received the best criticism from the specialized press.

“Andrés Alberto Gómez has an unusual touch control. Adapt his articulation to phrasing with the mastery of the greatest”.

Philippe Ramin, Diapason (5 diapason)


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Composer(s)

Andrés Alberto Gómez

He finished his harpsichord studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Holland) as a student of Jacques Ogg and at the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, E.S.M.U.C. as a student of Béatrice Martin, obtaining the highest distinction and congratulations from the jury. He has made recordings for the Dutch Radio, the Slovenian Radio-television, WDR 3, Radio Catalonia, the Polish Radio-television and the labels ARSIS, PASSACAILLE, DYNAMIC, TAÑIDOS and VANITAS. He is founder and director of the ensemble La Reverencia. His performances as soloist and continuist cover all of Europe. He has performed with several renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Tasto Solo or La Fura dels Baus, being directed by musicians such as William Christie, Paul Dombrecht, Paul...
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He finished his harpsichord studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Holland) as a student of Jacques Ogg and at the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, E.S.M.U.C. as a student of Béatrice Martin, obtaining the highest distinction and congratulations from the jury. He has made recordings for the Dutch Radio, the Slovenian Radio-television, WDR 3, Radio Catalonia, the Polish Radio-television and the labels ARSIS, PASSACAILLE, DYNAMIC, TAÑIDOS and VANITAS.

He is founder and director of the ensemble La Reverencia. His performances as soloist and continuist cover all of Europe. He has performed with several renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Tasto Solo or La Fura dels Baus, being directed by musicians such as William Christie, Paul Dombrecht, Paul McCreesh, Roy Goodman, Richard Egarr or Ton Koopman.

In 2013 he recorded together with La Reverencia De Oculta Philosophia, a documentary film around Baroque music that was selected at numerous international festivals. His discography has always received the best criticism from the specialized press.

“Andrés Alberto Gómez has an unusual touch control. Adapt his articulation to phrasing with the mastery of the greatest”.

Philippe Ramin, Diapason (5 diapason)


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"The matching of the instrumental sounds, the musical figures and ideas, everything is perfectly transparent and yet at the same time played in a vivid and vibrant manner, making it a true pleasure.
BR Klassik, 11-6-2015

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