Duron: Yo te quiero, Gileta

One of Gerhard’s mentors was the composer and musicologist Felipe Pedrell and this CD presents a selection of Gerhard’s arrangements of melodies chosen primarily from Pedrell’s Cancionero. These are world premiere recordings. Nancy Fabiola Herrera is currently one of the most sought after performers on the international opera scene.

This recording is the first monograph devoted to the eminent composer Sebastián Durón, one of the most important musicians in Spain at the turn of the eighteenth century, who held the post of royal maestro de capilla at the Court of Charles II in Madrid. It features nineteen works for solo voice and accompaniment: sixteen secular tonadas taken from his zarzuelas and other stage works, one secular cantata in the Italian style and two solos dedicated to the Eucharist.