The force of blood
In 2007 the three Zapico brothers Aarón, Daniel and Pablo created their most personal project »Concerto Zapico«, to enjoy celebrating chamber music with the highest musical understanding: The problem is that none of them play any melodic instrument, but polyphonic, ideal for the solo repertoire or for the realization of the basso continuo, the basis and harmonic structure in Baroque music. The big question is how does this combination fit together meaningfully? In order to achieve the goal, they decided to undertake the task of transcribing a selection of Italian and Spanish dance music from the 17th and 18th centuries, which led to the creation of their own and distinctive language of sound. In 2010 Concerto Zapico’s first album was released. The transcriptions alternated harmonic and rhythmic filling with singable parts for each instrument. Consequently »Opera Zapico« came out after »Concerto Zapico«. The three brothers convinced with their truly impressive transcriptions of arias and instrumental opera parts from Monteverdi to Mozart. Big orchestral scores reduced to the three special instruments; and without voice. A practice, although common at that time, had almost disappeared in our century.

After more than a hundred concerts around the world with this program, the original registered selection of dances of »Concerto Zapico« was evolving in such a way that eight years later a new corpus of works has emerged with its own entity and that configures the content of this album »Concerto Zapico Vol. 2«, a journey through the Spanish dance music of the 17th and 18th centuries with an extra maturity, language control, colors and timbre possibilities of their instruments.