CONCERTS

Our programme Muera Cupido, devoted to the Spanish composer Sebastián Durón, featuring the great soprano Núria Rial, will be performed for the season of the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical in Auditorio Príncipe Felipe de Oviedo.

More information here.

Alqhai brothers and Javier Núñez (harpsichord) will bring Les Viols de Ciel et de l’Enfer—a programme about the music in the exuberant court of the King Sun, Louis XIV—to the Festival Pórtico do Paraíso (Ourense, Galicia, Spain).

The event will take place next March 10th, 20.30, in the Church of Santa María Nai.

With the support of INAEM (Ministerio de Cultura de España) and Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales (Junta de Andalucía).

In parallel to what was done by painters and sculptors, composers of the Counter-Reformation regaled in sensual, chromatic harmonies, and associated them with poetry: if musica reservata was appropriate for the madrigal and profane monody, it would be suitable also to adore the most beloved women of the Catholic world, the Virgin Mary, whose cult identified Catholicism against heresy. The refined atmosphere of the Roman aristocracy—which, decades later, also host the experimental cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti and the young Händel—was the ideal environment for the development of such an exquisite style—affordable for the attentive listener, and sometimes hypnotic, like in the Nanna.

With the support of:

In parallel to what was done by painters and sculptors, composers of the Counter-Reformation regaled in sensual, chromatic harmonies, and associated them with poetry: if musica reservata was appropriate for the madrigal and profane monody, it would be suitable also to adore the most beloved women of the Catholic world, the Virgin Mary, whose cult identified Catholicism against heresy. The refined atmosphere of the Roman aristocracy—which, decades later, also host the experimental cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti and the young Händel—was the ideal environment for the development of such an exquisite style—affordable for the attentive listener, and sometimes hypnotic, like in the Nanna.

With the support of:

Dancers and musicians who sing and recite in Spanish and French; canes hitting the ground with protoflamenco rhythms and flavours; small lights that reveal moments of mysterious poetry or make the most festive dances to glow; elegant patterns, designs and tones which connect us with a careful, modern aesthetics… an exciting experiment carried out by Compañía Antonio Ruz in cooperation with Accademia del Piacere, conducted by Fahmi Alqhai. Made by avant-garde artists, À l’Espagnole is a show of contrasts, of light and shadows, amusement, surprising and new. In one word: Baroque.

In the Auditori de Barcelona. More information coming soon

On September 15th we will bring our “Las idas y las vueltas” to the Musical Autumn of Soria (Castilla y León, Spain). Accademia del Piacere will be accompanied, as always in this show, by our flamenco friends Arcángel (singer), Dani de Morón (flamenco guitar) and Agustín Diassera (percussion).

The big news is that this time the great dancer Patricia Guerrero will be with us: a luxury company that will make us remember the Giraldillo to the Best Original Music and to the Best New Artist (for her!) that was awarded to us at the Sevilla Bienal de Flamenco 2012 by this show.

Dancers and musicians who sing and recite in Spanish and French; canes hitting the ground with protoflamenco rhythms and flavours; small lights that reveal moments of mysterious poetry or make the most festive dances to glow; elegant patterns, designs and tones which connect us with a careful, modern aesthetics… an exciting experiment carried out by Compañía Antonio Ruz in cooperation with Accademia del Piacere, conducted by Fahmi Alqhai. Made by avant-garde artists, À l’Espagnole is a show of contrasts, of light and shadows, amusement, surprising and new. In one word: Baroque.

In the Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, Santander (Spain).

http://festivalsantander.com/events/compania-antonio-ruz-accademia-del-piacere/

Rediscovering Spain—one of the most successful programs of Accademia del Piacere—will be played at the Mare Musicum Music Festival of Roquetas de Mar, Almería (Spain).

Fahmi Alqhai wrote on it:

“The routines of instrumental performance in past centuries did not go by merely reading the music written by the composers, but involves a re-reading of the original text and the transformation of the pieces: adding or removing voices,  glosses, instrumentation or using characteristic motifs as a basis for improvisation or creation of new counterpoint. In this program Accademia del Piacere seeks the recovery of the main instrumental practice (Hispanic, in this case) and of the musical reading of the 16th and 17th centuries, keeping us away from the superficial interpretation of fantasías, diferencias & glosas—created at its time as mere examples of a practice— and focusing on pure creation and performance following true historicist criteria: the real aim and purpose of the musicians at all times.”

Remember that you can buy the album of this progam in this website.