D’Amor mormora il vento
Contemporaneity of early music cycle
La boz galana
Sebastián León, baritone
Chiara Granata, baroque harp
Edwin García, baroque guitar
Songs and dances alla spagnola
LA BOZ GALANA was created in 2011 in Basel, Switzerland, by singers and instrumentalists from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and France. The ensemble is particularly dedicated to the interpretation of Renaissance and Baroque Iberian and Latin-American repertoire. Recently they have been combining musical projects with research on the relationship of these musical styles with poetry and literature. The ensemble’s name (‘the gallant voice’) uses the orthography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; it’s an expression that could be used in poems to describe a song beautifully sung or a text gallantly proclaimed.
The ensemble has performed mostly in France and Switzerland (Concerts du Conservatoire de Nantes, Festival Vochora, Festival du Mont Blanc, Festival de Froville, Les Goûts réunis, andLes Musicales de Redon, among others), and more recently in Colombia. Their first CD, with villancicos and motets by the Spanish composer Matías Durango, was released in 2015. Two further CDs were released in 2020, with warm reception from the critics: «D’Amor mormora il vento» (released by Ramée, nominated for the 2021 ICMA awards in the category “baroque vocal”), with Spanish and Italian songs and dances from the 17th century, and «Los ecos de Manzanares» (released by Brilliant Classics), with songs from the Cancionero de la Sablonara.
La Boz Galana carries out, alongside performing, a constant musicological and philological research. The ensemble collaborates with the research group Aula Música Poética | Digital Música Poética (ASODAT), dedicated to the study and recording of Hispanic music and poetry from the 15th to the 17th centuries.