Pablo Zapico

The brothers Daniel and Pablo Zapico show their mastery of the plucked string in the context of ancient music.
Daniel and Pablo Zapico are members of Forma Antiqva as well as being resident artists of this edition of the Granada Festival. They rank in a privileged position with regard to historic interpretation and here they offer us Mediterránea, in which they explore the range of differences between Spanish and Italian music of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods.

Pablo Zapico und Daniel Zapico – Erzlaute und Theorbe – entdecken die besonderen Noten der wahrscheinlich letzten Kompositionen verfasst für Laute, im Wandel vom Barock zur Epoche der Klassik: Die Werke sind gesammelt unter „Suonate di Celebri Auttori“ von dem Maler und Musiker Filippo Dalla Casa (1737-1811).

In 2007 the Zapico brothers created «Concerto Zapico»; their most personal project. Through it they reached a longed for aspiration: to be able to make chamber music together. The problem is that none of them play any melodic instrument, but polyphonic, ideal for the solo repertoire or for the realization of the basso continuo, that is, the harmonic accompaniment of the melody. But, playing together?

Forma Antiqva, founded in 1998 by the brothers Aarón, Daniel and Pablo Zapico in Asturias, is considered to be the most courageous baroque ensemble in Spain. With variable formations - from the trio of the Zapico brothers (Concerto Zapico) to the baroque orchestra with outstanding performers of the young generation - the Zapicos deal with repertoire of the 17th / 18th centuries and the present in an original and bold way: from Spanish dance music to great works of the late baroque, including legacy revivals by authors such as Vicente Baset.

A seventeenth century violinist-composer in Francisco José de Castro, who travelled from his birthplace of Seville to the Northern Italian city of Brescia where he composed chamber music, provides the focus for Emilio Moreno’s latest exploration of the forgotten and ignored in Iberian Baroque. Castro’s Trattenimenti armonici, Op 1, a set of ten trio sonatas da camera were published in 1695, by which time their composer had earned a deserved reputation for his musicality, especially as a follower of the innovative style of Arcangelo Corelli (Castro’s first opus was issued by a leading publisher in Bologna). These trio sonatas are the only known Spanish examples from the seventeenth century.