MUSIC'us Orchestra

MUSIC'us Orchestra

Director: José María Álvarez Muñoz

The MUSIC'us orchestra arises as a renewal of the Qvorvm Orchestra, founded by maestro José María Álvarez Muñoz in 1998. Made up of professional musicians, national and foreign, it has managed to occupy a prominent place in the field of interpretation over the years. of baroque and classical music.

In the words of ABC journalist Pablo Ferrand, “the public and critical success that accompanies him from the first moment (that of his presentation in the Church of San Luis in Seville on April 2, 1998) has been in crescendo. This group was invited a year later to the same city for another concert. If on the first occasion they captivated the listener with the motet 'Jesu, meine Freude' (BWV 227) by JS Bach and the emotional cantata 'Actus Trágicus' (BWV 106), on the second they triumphed again with the 'Magnificat' in D major (BWV 243), by the same author, and with the rare Nelson Mass, by Haydn. On both occasions the tickets were sold out.

The main key to this prestige responds to a way of conceiving and making music, combining the best of two currents of interpretation. On the one hand, there is the historicist, which uses original instruments or reproductions of these, and a deep study of articulation and agogic, for the sake of an authenticity that is desired to be recovered, and on the other hand, that which arises from the German tradition from Richter to Rilling, which proposes an interpretation consisting of the transmission of the powerful spiritual and aesthetic contents of oratorio as a genre. None of this would make sense without the aesthetic qualities and precise technical preparation of a group that feels, above all, true devotion to sacred music, whose spirituality and symbolism it wishes to transmit and share.”

Currently, made up of a masterful mix of highly experienced musicians as well as young talents, it adopts the musical training necessary to approach any artistic work according to its compositional stage, predominating the forms of baroque, classical and symphonic orchestras, without neglecting different ensembles. He actively participates in musical cycles such as those organized by the Madrid City Council, both at Christmas and Easter.

His latest commitments include 'El Mesías' and 'Dixit Dominus', by GF Handel; 'Paulus', by F. Mendelssohn; 'Gloria', by A. Vivaldi; 'Requiem', by WA Mozart; 'Magnificat', by JS Bach; 'Magnificat', by J. Rutter; 'The Creation', by J. Haydn; 'Membra Jesu Nostri', by D. Buxtehude; 'Baroque fanfares and suites' (selection of pieces for seven trumpets and timpani).

- Concertmaster: Raúl Galindo.
- Section heads: violin II, José Carlos Martín; viola, Carlos López; cello, Joaquín Ruiz; oboe soloist: Ricardo Grau; pianist: Miguel Ángel Gómez.

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