Erik Bosgraaf, Izhar Elias & Alessandro Pianu - La Monarcha Erik Bosgraaf

• 1Corriente dicha la cuella01:04
• 2La suave melodia, y su corrente02:57
• 3Il rosso, Brando00:50
• 4Canzon Terza05:29
• 5Sinfonia a Due02:34
• 6Tarantelas03:29
• 7Pavane De Spanje01:35
• 8Pavana Hispanica02:33
• 9Corrente dicha L'avellina00:57
• 10Il spiritillo, brando00:59
• 11Alemana dicha villega02:09
• 12Follie in G.Sol.Re.Ut02:51
• 13La monarcha03:57
• 14Follia04:19
• 15Corrente01:02
• 16Repicavan02:05
• 17Canzon seconda00:00
• 18Diferencias sobre la pavana Italiana03:16
• 19La esfachata de Nápoles00:47
• 20La cavalleria de Nápoles, con dos clarines02:45
• 21La benedetta02:07
• 22La prudenza, corrente01:12
• 23Corriente dicha la mota, echa para D. Pedro Dela Mota01:02
• 24Brando dicho el melo01:18
• 25Pavaniglia01:34
• Total Runtime52:51

Info for Erik Bosgraaf, Izhar Elias & Alessandro Pianu - La Monarcha

A new and innovative concept by Erik Bosgraaf and his friends: dance music from the Spanish territories in the 17th century, by famous and anonymous composers, constantly crossing the borders between the serious and the playful, between “art” music and “light” music. Listening to this wonderful program, played with such obvious fun, zest and drive, one feels that music has this eternal quality of uplifting one’s soul, spirit and body, whether written 400 years ago or right at this moment. Erik Bosgraaf, Izhar Elias and Alessandro Pianu play on original instruments or copies thereof. Their earlier releases on Brilliant Classics have gained international praise for their originality and dedication, resulting in important prizes such as the Prize from the Borletti Buitoni Trust. This collection draws directly from the works of Italian and Spanish guitarists Girolamo Montesardo, Carlo Calvi, Gaspar Sanz, Santiago de Murcia and Francesco Corbetta, keyboard players Antonio de Cabezón, Bernardo Storace, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Pieter de Vois, and authors of solo and chamber music for a variety of other instruments, Andrea Falconieri, Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde and Jacob van Eyck.

Emblem and ambassador of Spanish culture, it is the guitar that threads the story together, intrinsically intertwined with the Spanish fondness for variation sets on harmonic grounds. Spain’s imperial history explains the wide geographical variety of composers, though even the Dutch Sweelinck seeks to bring local colour to his sober Low Countries aesthetic in his Pavana Hispanica. Elsewhere there are variations on the perennially popular ‘La Follia’, jolly Correntes and tarantellas, and more sinuous diferencias and intabulations of love-songs. They are all performed by a trio of young and talented musicians who bring great rhythmic vitality and a freshly imaginative approach to this inventive act of reconstruction.

Cordevento:
Erik Bosgraaf, recorders
Izhar Elias, baroque (guitars)
Alessandro Pianu, harpsichord, organ

Erik Bosgraaf
Hailed as one of the most gifted and versatile recorder players of the new generation, Erik Bosgraaf has a colourful past in a rock band and as an oboe player. He believes that good music is irrespective of style and feels equally at home in early and contemporary music as well as commissioning new works including several concertos incorporating new media.

In 2007 Frans Brüggen invited him to perform Bach's Actus Tragicus at the Concertgebouw. Current engagements include solo performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden and the Dutch Radio Chamber Philharmonic/Thierry Fischer. His début recording, a 3-CD box with music by Dutch composer Jacob van Eyck, was number one in the Dutch classical music charts in 2007 and his CD/DVD 'Big Eye', including contemporary music for film, was hailed as 'wacky, irreverent and thought-provoking' (Gramophone). He has also made CDs of Telemann, Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.

In 2006 he co-founded Ensemble Cordevento specializing in the music of the 17th and 18th century. He was selected as Rising Star by the ECHO to tour all major European concerthalls in season 2011-12. Born in The Netherlands in 1980, Erik Bosgraaf is a former student of Walter van Hauwe and Paul Leenhouts (Amsterdam). He also holds an MA in musicology from Utrecht University and received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2009. In 2011 he received the highest Dutch state prize, the Dutch Music Award.

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