Carlos Núñez pays tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven and has been doing so since last year, the date on which the 250th anniversary from the birth of the great German composer. The Galician musician, a virtuoso of the bagpipes, will open the cycle Bohemian Nights this Saturday July 10 at 10 pm in the Jardines de la Atalaya de Jerez with its applauded show Celtic Beethoven, premiered last year at the International Festival of Jaca.
“In recent years, Beethoven has been working with Celtic music, traditional music that was sent to him from the Atlantic,” explained Carlos Nuñez. And it is that, according to the Galician musician, in those times -the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th- “there was a new sensibility that sprang from tradition ”and to this trend Beethoven was added.
In his opinion, the German composer saw in these musics “an opportunity to revolutionize classical music, since the celtic songs they brought older systems, sounds that worked in different ways, ”Núñez pointed out.
With all this, Beethoven devised a kind of amalgamation of civilizations, which – in the piper’s opinion – make him “ahead of his time.” “Systems that we have seen in rock, blues, jazz and country were worked before by Beethoven 200 years ago”He added.
The Celtic music composed by the German author covers more than 200 themes, a vast production corresponding to his last fifteen years of life. In addition, they treasure the particularity that they served to inspire such important works of his Seventh Symphony.
To present now this Celtic Beethoven On tour, Núñez has been working and researching in Germany for about 15 years on unpublished material “from a part of history that we had not been told”.
Thus the things, in the Atalaya Gardens the ancestral melodies -Irish, Scottish or Welsh- will sound in a concert in the purest Carlos Núñez style, all a loud toast. And it is that, as has been shown in other scenarios, Celtic Beethoven It is conceived as a show with great force in which it invites the public to enjoy this attractive and particular repertoire.
On stage, Carlos Núñez will be accompanied by the guitarist Pancho Álvarez, the percussionist Xurxo Núñez, the violinist Jon Pilatzle and the pianist Noemí Salomón.
The Bohemian Nights cycle will continue on Saturday July 17 with a performance by the guitarist Santiago Lara, who will present his fifth album Your song on my guitar, with the presence of the bailaor Jesús Carmona and the cantaora Rosario La Tremendita as guest artists.
Likewise, two shows of the XXII International Festival La Isla del Blues will be offered: Morgane JI and Lolo Ortega Band (July 24) and Moonlight Benjamin and Suso Díaz & The Appaloosas (July 25).
After them will come the Flamenco leaks by Carlos Benavent, Tino Di Geraldo and Jorge Pardo (July 31), cantaora Mayte Martín with Already seen (August 7), accompanied by a musical quintet and the dance of Patricia Guerrero. And it will be the Cuban musician Pablo Milanes who closes this edition on August 14. At 78, the Cuban troubadour takes to the stage after more than six decades of brilliant artistic career.
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