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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-07-14 00:28:51
Musical Connections: Ancient Spain & Modern Mexico
[…] Ensaemble Continuo for a wide range of these traditional melodies in traditional and modern versions. At Ozawa Hall last Thursday, Hesperion XX consisted of three players: Savall himself, playing the viola da gamba and the treble viol; David Mayoral, percussion; and Xavier Díaz-Latorre, theorbo and guitar. The Mexican ensemble likewise comprised three: Ulises Martínez, violin, guitarra de son, and voice; Enrique Barona, gitarra huapanguera, leona, jarana jarocha 3a, mosquito, maracas, pandero, and voice; and Leopoldo Novoa, marimbol, guitarra de son 3a, jarana huasteca, quijada de caballo, and arpallanera. It may be clear from this list that f Hesperion XX chooses historical instruments of the Renaissance while the Mexican musicians play instruments largely from a folkloric heritage. Each half came in four segments, partly presenting the older music from the 16th century and its echoes from the 17th and early 18th centuries, and partly involving modern improvisation on traditional tunes. Most […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-06-10 15:30:19
Savall’s BEMF Social Club
[…] improvised) lyrics, played a variety of guitars as small as the ukelele-like jarana mosquito, and maracas. Centered slightly behind the half-moon of musicians, Hespèrion’s David Mayoral played percussion, alternating between a tom-type drum, a tambourine, and a goblet-shaped drum with a tabla-like tone. Mayoral was flanked by two other Hespérion members: Xavier Díaz-Latorre, playing a giant theorbo and a guitar, and Enrike Solinís, playing theorbo, the double-strung vihuela and guitar. On the right, Tembembe’s Leopoldo Novoa sat on a marimbol and used it to set rhythmic bass lines, when he wasn’t playing a traditional Central American harp or the mandolin-like jarana huasteca. At the far right, Tembembe’s Ulises Martínez played violin, leona an extra-deep guitar-like instrument from Mexico, and a sleigh bell type percussion instrument. The first set of three songs began with “La Spagna,” a folía by Diego Ortiz, followed by two sets of improvisations around folía progressions. The […]
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