He sees himself as one of Spanish music’s hopeless idealists. This is not without reason.
He has persevered for a long time, and with considerable talent, in a repertoire that others had given up for dead, or had at least considered to be of little interest.
Such disregarded composers as Antonio de Lliteres (or Literes), José de Nebra, José de Torres, and perhaps in a lesser way Sebastián Durón, have very good reason to be grateful to Eduardo López Banzo since for a decade and a half at the helm of Al Ayre Español he has applied himself to spreading their music throughout Europe and the Americas.
To celebrate their 15 years of existence, and with renewed energies, López Banzo has various groundbreaking musical projects in mind.
This change in direction in no way lessens the artistic coherence of this Zaragoza-born harpsichord player. Besides, being the specialist par excellence in the musical theatre of the Spanish baroque is a label that now bothers him.
Or maybe it would be better to say that this has given him the resources to continue along his path to new musical horizons, especially Roman oratorio, the works of Handel and the music of Bach. |
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