For Antonio Betancor's movie Mararía, the singer/composer Pedro Guerra has composed some pages of sensitive nostalgia, dreamt and inspired by the roots of the earth of the guanches. The landscape beauty of the Canary Islands has suggested the composer some melodies of traditional root evoked through autochthonous instruments as the timple, the limpets or a small group of guitars. It is a score of assumed simplicity but of rich expression, of fire and ash colors, to which the orchestrator and arranger Joan Valent has contributed with a symphonic palette to grant it bigger musical dimensions; this way, the solo violin of Considérese en su casaor the drums of warlike airs of Después de la Guerra add the necessary and complementary narrative sound to the folk music with elegant precision and eddy. Under the baton of Adrian Leaper the strings of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria recite with suggestive brightness the beautiful musical and vocal comment of Guerra, based on the main leitmotiv of the work (Mararía -Tema Principal-), in brief atonal notes for the woods (Tunos), or in barryan melodies (Murphy) of an exceptional acoustics. D.R.C.

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