Durón: La guerra de los gigantes Orquesta Barroca de Granada, Íliber Ensemble & Darío Moreno

• Sebastián Durón (1660 - 1716): Introduction:
• 1 La guerra de los gigantes, Introduction: Cítaras dulces 07:19
• 2 La guerra de los gigantes, Introduction: Si numen y voz 03:15
• 3 La guerra de los gigantes, Introduction: Aunque más vuele 05:46
• 4 La guerra de los gigantes, Introduction: Quien primero que la Fama 03:32
• 5 La guerra de los gigantes, Introduction: Tiempo, Eternidad y Fama 04:26
• Scene 1:
• 6 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 1: Disformes hijos del cielo 02:11
• 7 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 1: Yo, racionales monstruos 04:42
• Scene 2:
• 8 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 2: Águila impaciente 02:10
• 9 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 2: Y ya que varado el vuelo 01:06
• 10 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 2: Que si yo de las ciencias 01:00
• 11 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 2: En el cóncavo profundo 01:02
• 12 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 2: Ya en mi oído 00:58
• 13 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 2: Bucentoro de plumas 01:19
• Scene 3:
• 14 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 3: Animoso denuedo 03:55
• 15 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 3: Quién eres, divina 03:13
• 16 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 3: Sacrílego impulso 01:33
• 17 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 3: Ahora, sí, sí 04:34
• Scene 4:
• 18 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 4: Osados escuadrones 03:08
• 19 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 4: Mas, que es esto 01:00
• 20 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 4: Y pues ya es ocasión 01:03
• 21 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 4: Mas, ay cielos 01:16
• 22 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 4: Ya emprendiendo cobardes 00:48
• Scene 5:
• 23 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 5: Dónde, cielo divino 02:34
• 24 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 5: Ay, que el golpe del ceño cruel 02:56
• Scene 6:
• 25 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 6: Ah de la tierra 02:08
• 26 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 6: Suenen, y al dulce hechizo 05:36
• 27 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 6: Cómo hoy no ha de ser trofeo 01:30
• 28 La guerra de los gigantes, Scene 6: Suenen, suenen confusas 01:02
• Total Runtime 01:15:02

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Sebastián Durón is usually recognized as one of the leading Spanish composers of theater music, although this repertoire is barely performed nowadays, even in concert version. As far as we know, ten complete scores of Durón’s stage works have been preserved, four of which are entirely sung, a number that is higher than that found in theater music by other important Spanish musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as Juan Hidalgo, Juan de Navas or Antonio Literes. The fact that, in his theater music, Durón uses both the conventions of 17th-century Spanish court theater and some elements of the dramma per musica has placed these pieces in a diffuse and poorly understood territory, unlike what happens with the works of Hidalgo and Literes, repertoire which has been studied better. For some scholars, the theater music of Durón is incoherent due to the introduction of elements that are unfamiliar to the Spanish court theater, in contrast to the great dramaturgy devised by Calderón de la Barca and Hidalgo. On the contrary, for other scholars, the music of Durón is remarkable for its openness to modernity, although it is a timid modernization against the determined Italianization that is observed in Literes and other later musicians. In our opinion, however, Durón’s theater work exhibits great originality and drama in itself, which is hardly understandable if we approach it with the abstract models that face tradition to modernity, or Spanish to Italian.

Marta Infante, soprano (Palante)
Eva Juárez, soprano (Júpiter)
Aurora Peña, soprano (Minerva)
Solomía Antonyak, soprano (Hércules)
Pilar Alva, soprano (La Fama)
Soledad Cardoso, soprano (El Tiempo)
Laura Sabatel, soprano (La Inmortalidad)
Olalla Alemán, soprano (El Silencio)
Luis David Barrios, tenor
Darío Tamayo, director
Darío Moreno, harpsichord, conductor

Marta Infante
The Spanish Mezzosoprano Marta Infante began her music studies of piano, viola and singing in her hometown Lleida, and later she completed a Higher Diploma in Singing at the University of Ostrava, in the Czech Republic.

She currently sings as a soloist at the main festivals and halls in Spain and she has sung Mozart, Haydn, Debussy, Honegger, Dvorák, Vivaldi, Händel, Rossini, Mahler, etc… with, among others, the Spanish National Orchestra, The Catalan National Orchestra, The Radio and television Spanish Orchestra, Bilbao orkesta sinfonikoa, the Symphony Orchestra of Galicia, the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, The Salvador national Orchestra, the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, and she works with Jordi Casas, Josep Vila, A. Tamayo, M. A. Gómez Martínez, Leon Botstein, Kynnan Johns, Robert Howarth, Aldo Ceccato, Edmon Colomer, Kees Bakels, Victor Pablo Pérez, Carlos Kalmar.

She had sang lieder recitals with the piano player Jorge Robaina in Teatro Calderon (Valladolid), Janackuv maj (czech), Caixaforum, Palacio Euskalduna (Bilbao), Teatro de la Maestranza (Sevilla), Palau de la Música catalana in Barcelona where she recibed a prize at the primer Palau competition, for her Dvorák and Mahler’s interpretation.

Marta Infante works regulary with a number of barroque ensembles, such La Caravaggia, Concierto Español, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, La Galanía, La capilla Real de Madrid, Orquesta barroca catalana, Los músicos de su Alteza, Acadèmia 1750, Collegium 1704 (Czech republik), Anthonello (Japan), Dresdne barockorchestra, Collegium marianum (Czech Republik), The Barrocade Israel ensemble, Ars Longa (Cuba) among others.

She permormed at many European auditories and festivals like Bienale de Venecia, The Bijloke (Belgium) Festival Baroque de Sablé, Palau de la música catalana de Barcelona, Festival música antiga de Barcelona, festival de músiques històriques de Torroella de Montgrí, Via stellae, Auditorio national from Madrid, Musika música in Bilbao, Oslo International Church Music Festival, Letni slavnosti stare hudby, Janackuv maji, and Concentus Moravie, Festival International de Musiques Sacrées de Fribourg, and she sings in Egipt, Siria, Jordania, Líbano, in festival de música antigua de La Habana (Cuba), El Salvador, Japan and in the most important cities from South America, Chile, Uruguay and at Mozarteum in Argentina and Brazil. She has performed with Ottavio Dantone, Rinaldo Allesandrini, Enrico Onoffri, F.M.Sardelli, Richard Egarr, Giovanni Antonini, Vaclav Luks, Rinaldo Allesandrini and Paul Goodwin, among others.

Marta has made recordings for the Spanish Radio and Television, Mezzo, Czech Television and for the labels Alpha, Enchiriadis, Glosa, Anima e Corpo, Verso and Her recordings include “Alto Cantatas” by Telemann, “Tonos al Arpa” with the harpist Manuel Vilas, “Cantate Contarini” (Venetian Baroque cantatas for alto and thorough-bass), the operas Amor aumenta el valor and Iphigenia from Jose de Nebra for the label Alpha, and Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans.

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