ZAPATEADO (Concerto Madrigal)/MX Guitar Duo
-MX Guitar Duo (Robbin Blanco & Omán Kaminsky)
-Orchestra: OFUNAM
-Conductor: Andrés Cárdenes
-Mixing Engineer: www.joseluisaguirre.com
- Composer: Joaquín Rodrigo
- Piece: Caccia a la española (From concerto madrigal)
- Video: NAYRO Productions
- German guitar HANIKA A1- Robbin Blanco
- Spanish guitar Paco Marín- Omán Kaminsky
- Corum Savarez Strings.
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Robbin Blanco
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Omán Kaminsky
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Rodrigo began this two-guitar concerto in 1966, intending it for the husband-and-wife duo of Alexandre Lagoya and Ida Presti. The 1970 premiere, however, fell to Pepe and Angel Romero, who recorded it several years later. More a suite than a traditional concerto, the Concierto madrigal falls into ten brief movements, many of them based on the anonymous Renaissance madrigal "Felices ojos mios" (Happy Eyes of Mine). The composer wrote that "the element that sustains [the work] is the variation. Each of the variations or episodes is indicated by the title, which gives a clue to its atmosphere or scenario, a delicate poetic sketching that imbues the whole score. At times, because of the origin of the theme, the episodes have a modal or archaic character; at other times, the melody that acts as a thread through the whole work is permeated by a much more popular feeling." All in all, the concerto is more akin to Rodrigo's similarly archaic Fantasía para un gentilhombre than to his more Romantic Concierto de Aranjuez.
The zapateado is a dance of Mexican Indian origin characterized by a lively rhythm punctuated by the striking of the dancer's shoes, akin to tap dance. The name derives from the Spanish word zapato for "shoe": zapatear means to strike with a shoe.
The dance was introduced by the natives of Mexico and then taken back to Spain where the Spanish claimed it as their own.
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