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On October 21st at Teatro de la Valenciana
Cellist Ophélie Gaillard will tour from Spain to America in the 44th International Cervantino Festival
September 09, 2016Cellist Ophélie Gaillard (Paris, 1974) will present a tour from Spain to Latin America, through Brazil’s, Argentina’s and Cuba’s popular sounds, through Manuel de Falla’s, Gaspar Cassadó’s, Heitor Villa-Lobos’s, Egberto Gismonti’s, Geraldo Carneiro’s and Astor Piazzolla’s compositions in the 44th edition of the International Cervantino Festival.
Alvorada, title of her latest album, is the show that will present the winner of the Bach Competition of Leipzing in 1998, on Friday October 21st at the Templo de la Valenciana in Guanajuato, which aims to find the popular roots that fit inside the works of classical music.
"Dances, tangos and lullabies will be listened. These works inspired by folklore, specifically belonged to the popular repertoire and were remade by classical artists with some sophisticated arrangements”, cellist said in videoconference.
An exceptional mix of pieces in which the cello sings with the bandoneon, dances with the piano, the guitar or percussion, is part of what Guanajuato’s audience will enjoy with this tribute to Spain, running from Catalonia to Andalusia, and then through Latin America’s sounds.
"We will play popular music. I think the vocation of the cello since the seventeenth century is the dance, it is an instrument that accompanied the parties. It is not at all a learned or erudite instrument, nor it was an instrument used in the European courts of the time”, the artist said.
She is interested to associate timbres and sounds that come from different traditions. She likes to work Latin rhythms, such as the fandango or flamenco from a perspective historically informed, so she will be accompanied by specialist musicians as Juanjo Mosalini and Roman Lecuyer.
“To play popular music involves many challenges, the main one is the articulation, the phrasing and the rhythm. We spent hours working because otherwise the pieces will be listened with a foreign accent. If you do not play the vibrato right, if the timbre is not correct everything will sound false; the important thing is the notion of authenticity, to keep each particular accent and to listen each color of the instrument”, Ophélie Gaillard said.
The French artist will perform in her concert with a cello created by Francesco Goffriller in 1737, which produces a deep, rich and warm sound, especially in the low notes. It is an instrument that surprises her all the time, she explained.
"The cello has a festive and melancholy side; I position myself in the middle, I like to explore the two extremes, but the cello, in fact, can be moving, nostalgic and melancholy, but also festive as some of the works that we are going to present. I am interested in contrasts. "
Ophélie Gaillard will explore in Alvorada Manuel de Falla’s perfectionism with his work, Nana; the three movements of the Suite for solo cello, by Gaspar Cassadó; Bacchianas brasileiras no: 1, Cantilène, by Heitor Villa-Lobos; Water and wine, by Egberto Gismonti and Geraldo Carneiro; and works by Astor Piazzolla, as Escualo, Grand Tango, Oblivion and Libertango.
The cellist, Instrumental Soloist Revelation winner in 2003 within the Victoires de la Musique Classique contest and awarded the Diapason d'Or in 2011 for her recording of Bach’s suites for cello, expressed her joy to show again in the Feast of the Spirit, after she paid homage to Debussy in 2009 with her concert Pierrot, angry with the moon.
The Alvorada concert, where Ophélie Gaillard will be accompanied by Sandra Rumolino (voice), Juanjo Mosalini (bandoneon), Gabriel Sivak (piano and arrangements), and Romain Lecuyer (bass and guitar), will be held in the Templo de la Valenciana in Guanajuato, on Friday October 21st at 12:00 h.
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