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The publication and premiere in 1611 of The Tempest of Shakespeare coincides with the beginning with the musical world of an epoch that it has been given in calling "Baroque"; in the plot we find a shipwreck, love, crime, struggle, magic, nature; but the only artistic manifestation is not this with this name: diverse pictures and poems of the XVIIth and XVIIIth century answer to this title that reflects the taste of an epoch of change, movement, extremes. In the area of the music a basic role plays the expression of the feelings and the description of phenomena of the nature.
Of there the name of the group, which members, formed initially in the conservatoires of your cities of origin, have studied later in important European conservatoires (Toulouse, Musikhochschule of Vienna, Sweelinck Conservatorium of Amsterdam, Koninklijk Conservatorium of The Hague) with the big specialists of the ancient music. They possess diverse recordings and prizes in national and international contests, and all of them have formed a part of prestigious ensembles dedicated to this repertoires, as Al Ayre Español, La Real Cámara, El Concierto Español, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, European Union Baroque Orchestra, La Stravaganza, Baroque Orchestra of Seville, etc., with whom they have acted both for the Spanish geography and for the whole Europe, Israel and China. In Spain, La Tempestad there has appeared to the public in Festivals of Early Music as that of Aranjuez, Cadiz, Seville, Marbella, Murcia, the IInd Cycle of Sacred Music of Almeria, the VIIth International Festival of Musical Interpretation of Jaca, Cycle of Early Music in the Royal Chapel of Santa Isabel (Saragossa), etc.
In the last times La Tempesta has centred on the chamber music of the second half of the XVIIIth, though his repertory spreads from the XVIIth century up to incursions in the XXth century, always with ancient instruments. Due to this approach camerístico he appears in changeable formation, from the duo (viola da gamba and harpsichord, transverse flute and harpsichord, viola da braccio and harpsichord) up to the small chamber orchestra. In 2005 La Tempestad offered in concert the quintets for harpsichord and strings and flute and strings of Boccherini. In October, 2005 La Tempestad realized the recording of the Trio for flute, viola and harpsichord of C. Ph. E.Bach.
All these adventures have served the members of the group to conceive the ideal one of clean, vivacious interpretation, which allows to the today listener to listen to Vivaldi's brilliant, emotive, virtuous and difficult music, or Rameau's intense and anxious music, with his combination of dissonances, harmonys and complex rhythms. In an epoch in which the art bases on the ends and on the duality tension / calmness, La Tempestad tries to extend to the maximum the sonorous and expressive palette, in such a way that the public enjoyment of a music that, far from remaining in the score, it catches, wakes up, incite, move and affect, I reflect this one of one of the principal functions of the baroque music. In words of Scarlatti: "Vivi felice"
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La Tempestad are:
Guillermo Peñalver, flute;
Alexis Aguado and Kepa Arteche, violins;
Antonio Clares, viola;
Mercedes Ruiz, violoncello;
Ventura Rico, violone and
Silvia Márquez, harpsichord |
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