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Laberintos Ingeniosos - Guitar Music of Gaspar Sanz | Zig Zag Territoires ZZT061002

Laberintos Ingeniosos - Guitar Music of Gaspar Sanz

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Label: Zig Zag Territoires

Cat No: ZZT061002

Barcode: 3760009291225

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 5th February 2007

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Contents

Works

Gaspar Sanz
Instruccion de musica para la guitarra espanola (selection)

Artists

Xavier Díaz-Latorre (guitar)
Pedro Estevan (percussion)

Works

Gaspar Sanz
Instruccion de musica para la guitarra espanola (selection)

Artists

Xavier Díaz-Latorre (guitar)
Pedro Estevan (percussion)

About

Xavier Díaz-Latorre is a graduate of the Schola Cantorum in Basel, where he was a pupil of Hopkinson Smith, after studying the modern guitar with Oscar Ghiglia at the Musik-Akademie of the same city. He appears with today’s foremost Baroque ensembles, including Jordi Savall’s Concert des Nations, René Jacobs’s Concerto Vocale, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and Concerto Köln. He brings to the world of the Baroque guitar not only his scholarly training at Basel, but also the Spanish roots that lie at the very basis of the instrument. 
 
For his first solo recording, he offers us an Iberian manifesto, with pieces taken from the Instrucción de música para la guitarra española (Instruction in the music of the Spanish guitar) of Gaspar Sanz
 
While carefully studying these rules which describe the various chords and their possible inversions using the letters of the Italian alphabet, and the methods of composing variations on folk themes (Neapolitan tarantellas, Spanish sarabandes, rasqueado dances deriving from the flamenco style of playing) or on European courtly dances seasoned with an Iberian flavour, Xavier Diaz-Latorre also gives free rein to contemporary influences from the Hispanic and Latin American worlds (Mexican and Argentinian folk music, or even the irregular rhythms of jazz). 
 
Xavier Díaz-Latorre and Pedro Estevan create their own personal interpretation of Gaspar Sanz, making us feel he is contemporary and close to us. In so doing they are respecting the spirit of Sanz himself, who called on performers to recreate written pieces through improvisation.

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