Mara Aranda, who performs music with traditional Mediterranean roots, is presenting Lo testament in Germany. It is an up-to-date vision of the music and songs of the Mare Nostrum in a production that continues along the lines of her previous work Déria, which earned her the Ovidi Monllor prize for the best folk album in 2013.
Eduard Navarro, one of the foremost restorers and revivers of traditional Valencian music, is musical director. The musicians are Abel García (hurdy-gurdy and laouto), Josep-Maria Ribelles (harp) and Jota Martínez (citole, hurdy-gurdy and bouzouki).
Mara Aranda has explored and sung Turkish, Greek and Occitan music and early medieval and Sephardic music. She has collaborated with groups as important as Ensemble Speculum, Oni Wytars and Ensemble Unicorni. Special mention should be made of her work with the Capella de Ministrers, with whom she recorded Los viajes del Tirant lo Blanch, El ciclo de la vida, and La cité des dames – presented at the University of Paris in 2013, also with the support of the PICE programme – and her most recent work based on Judeo-Spanish music, recorded at the Palau de la Música in Valencia: La música encerrada: Sefarad.
Eduard Navarro, one of the foremost restorers and revivers of traditional Valencian music, is musical director. The musicians are Abel García (hurdy-gurdy and laouto), Josep-Maria Ribelles (harp) and Jota Martínez (citole, hurdy-gurdy and bouzouki).
Mara Aranda has explored and sung Turkish, Greek and Occitan music and early medieval and Sephardic music. She has collaborated with groups as important as Ensemble Speculum, Oni Wytars and Ensemble Unicorni. Special mention should be made of her work with the Capella de Ministrers, with whom she recorded Los viajes del Tirant lo Blanch, El ciclo de la vida, and La cité des dames – presented at the University of Paris in 2013, also with the support of the PICE programme – and her most recent work based on Judeo-Spanish music, recorded at the Palau de la Música in Valencia: La música encerrada: Sefarad.