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The Quarter Branles

Artist : Le Petit Concert Baroque, harpsichord duo > www.lepetitconcertbaroque.com
Composer : Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Piece : Andante movement from the Viola da Gamba Sonata in G Major, BWV 1027
Live concert recording, Liechtenstein Museum Wien, Festival Italia Mia 2005

PCB - J.S. Bach - Viola da Gamba Sonata in G Major, BWV 1027 : Andante

pieza para flauta renacentista.
Flauta: Anna Margules

2000 Bruissement

Elektropolis X or 'Gmoahof Yidaki Echtnativ' is a Yidaki/Didjeridu based electronic lazy pseudo-Goa/Psi-Trance work utilising the native instrument of my genetically connected aboriginal people of Australia. This particular Yidaki on this recording was made by Charlie 'Hook' McMahon and an original Didgeridoo in that it was fashioned mainly by nature and properly termite eaten...

Elektropolis X (Gmoahof Yidaki Echtnativ)

(English below)

Vuelos (fragmento)
2005 / Para flautas mexicanas, flauta bajo de pico y medios electrónicos / 6’23”
 
A Anna Margules y a la memoria de Fidelia Sánchez
 
Esta pieza tiene la intención de recrear un espacio ritual en el que se alude a la muerte como potencial generadora de vida.
Además de una flauta bajo de pico y un par de flautas de carrizo que la intérprete utiliza en vivo, en la obra se usan un grupo de flautas tradicionales mexicanas manipuladas electrónicamente que comprende: flautas diatónicas, flauta microtonal, flauta de mirlitón (con un orificio cubierto por una membrana de tela de araña), flauta triple (funciona a base de batimentos); huíjolas (que simulan gorgeos de pájaros) y un silbato de viento.
El interés por este grupo de instrumentos radica en explorar sus posibilidades en cuanto al timbre y la afinación para diseñar una parte con la que la intérprete interactúa durante la obra. La idea es abstraer la sonoridad de los mismos de su contexto original para utilizarla en un ámbito de composición contemporánea.
El movimiento del sonido en el espacio es otra característica de la obra por lo que se utilizan 4 altavoces que rodean al público e intérprete para su óptima difusión.
 
Anna Margules, flauta bajo de pico y flautas de carrizo

Esta pieza forma parte del CD monográfico "Móvil"
Link al CD:  http://www.col-legno.com/en/shop/complete_catalog/movil

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Vuelos (excerpt)
2005 / For traditional flutes, bass recorder and electronic media / 6’23”
 
To Anna Margules and to the memory of Fidelia Sánchez
 
This piece is intended to recreate a ritual space alluding to death as a potential source of life. 
In addition to a bass recorder and a pair of reed flutes used live by the performer, this work incorporates a group of traditional Mexican flutes electronically manipulated. This group includes: diatonic flutes, microtonal flute, Mirliton flute (with a hole covered with a spider web membrane), triple flute (works based on batimentos, binaural beats or infrasonicphantom sounds), huíjolas (whistles simulating bird chirping) and a wind whistle.
The interest in this group of instruments lies in exploring their possibilities in terms of timbre and tuning to design a part with which the performer interacts during the performance. The goal is to abstract the sonority of the instruments from its original context in order to use it in a field of contemporary composition. 
The movement of the sound in space is another characteristic of the work; hence four speakers surrounding the public and performer are used for its optimal diffusion.
Anna Margules, bass recorder and traditional reed flutes

 This piece is part of a monographic CD called "Móvil"
Link to CD:  http://www.col-legno.com/en/shop/complete_catalog/movil

Vuelos (excerpt)

CANTO EN SOLEDAD FOR THREE RECORDER FLUTES. PERFOMER:    ANNA MARGULES

CANTO EN SOLEDAD FOR THREE RECORDER FLUTES BY  ANNA MARGULES

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 844, anonymous (13th century)
Katelyn Clark, clavisimbalum

La quinte estampie real

Cantiga de Santa Maria 179 "Ben sab' a que pód' e val" (Alfonso X)
Contrafactum "O Virgo Splendens*" (Llibre Vermell)
* O Virgo is a 3 voiced Caça (caccia) contained in the Llibre Vermell. I "modulated" (i.e. changed the mode of the scale) from the original mode of D to G mode, thus turning the Dorian original into Lidian.

Cantiga de Santa Maria 322 "A Virgen, que de Deus madre" (Alfonso X)
Contrafactum "Salterello" (London MS Add 29987)
The Salterello, as the rest of instrumental dances contained in this mss, has irregular metric phrasing but it fits well together with the Cantiga creating polyrythmic textures and some beautiful dissonances.

José Luis Pastor, vihuela de péñola & Medieval Spanish lute
Ernesto Schmied, blockflutes

Cantigas CSM 179 & 322 • Alfonso X

Kate, Corwen and Tim Howes_Four Hand Reel

live recording, April 2011, Madrid, Spain
**Toro Mariposa, drawing by Francisco de Goya

Toro Mariposa (sopranino recorder and electr.) 2008-11, Anna Margules


Latin Grammy nominated Gabriela Ortiz is one of the foremost composers in Mexico today, and one of the most vibrant musicians  emerging in the international scene. Her musical language achieves an extraordinary and expressive synthesis of tradition and the avant-garde; combining high art, folk music and jazz in novel, frequently refined and always personal ways. Her compositions are credited for being both entertaining and immediate as well as profound and sophisticated; she achieves a balance between highly organized structure and improvisatory spontaneity. Although based in Mexico, her music is commissioned and performed all over the world.


CANTO EN SOLEDAD FOR THREE RECORDER FLUTES BY ANNA MARGULES

gabriela ortiz composer