Marta Almajano (

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

) is a Spanish soprano.The gramophone: Volume 81, Issues 967-970 2003 "Much of the appeal lies in Zaragoza-born Marta Almajano's attractively dark, richly expressive and flexible soprano, which gives these varied songs depth of feeling and tremendous vitality." She was part of

Al Ayre Español Al Ayre Español is a vocal and instrumental ensemble specialized on early music founded in 1988 by harpsichordist Eduardo López Banzo.Interview with Eduardo López Banzo owww.odb-opera.com/ref> The name of the ensemble was inspired by the titl ...

from its foundation in 1987 until 2004, and often in connection with this group, been part of the revival of baroque zarzuelas such as “Tetis y Peleo” by Juán de Roldan, “Acis y Galatea” of

Antonio de Literes Antoni de Literes (18 June 1673 Majorca – 18 January 1747 Madrid), also known as Antonio de Literes or Antoni Literes Carrión) was a Spanish composer of '' zarzuelas''. As with other national forms of baroque opera, Literes's stage wor ...

, and “Viento es la dicha de Amor” by

José de Nebra José Melchor Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco (January 6, 1702 – July 11, 1768) was a Spanish people, Spanish composer. His work combines Spanish traditions with the Italian style of his day. Biography José de Nebra was born in Calatayud and was ...

. She teaches singing at the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, in Barcelona.

Discography

Solo recitals * Del Amor... La canción romántica española. Songs from the Spanish Romantic era. Marcial del Adalid y Gurréa, Mariano Rodríguez de Ledesma,

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(tenor, 1755–1832),

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, Lázaro Núñez-Robres. Marta Almajano (soprano), Michel Kiener (piano)

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HMI 987032 2003 * Per un bacio. Música vocal del Seicento italiano. with

Luca Pianca Luca Pianca (born 1958) is a Swiss musician-lutenist whose specialty is archlute. In 1985 he co - founded ''Il Giardino Armonico''., a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan. He has premiered works by the contemporary lutenist ...

and

Vittorio Ghielmi Vittorio Ghielmi is an Italian musician (viola da gamba), conductor, compose Compared by critics to Jasha Heifetz ("Diapason") for his virtuosity, and described as "An Alchemist of sound" ("Diario de Sevilla") for the intensity and versatility o ...

HMI 987058 * José Martínez de Arce, Juan Hidalgo and

Juan del Vado Juan del Vado y Gomez (1625–1691) was a Spanish composer, organist and violinist. He is noted for the enigmatic canons, symbolic musical puzzles, dedicated to his king Charles II of Spain. He came from a family of violinists. His father was a pla ...

¡Ay, dulce pena!. Tonos humanos del siglo XVII español. Juan Carlos Rivera (

vihuela The vihuela () is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of t ...

) HMI 987028 *

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Antonio Literes Antoni de Literes (18 June 1673 Majorca – 18 January 1747 Madrid), also known as Antonio de Literes or Antoni Literes Carrión) was a Spanish composer of ''zarzuelas''. As with other national forms of baroque opera, Literes's stage work ...

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, Ay Amor. Arias de Zarzuelas barrocas. Al Ayre Español

Eduardo López Banzo Eduardo López Banzo is a Spanish harpsichordist and conductor of baroque music. López Banzo was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. In 1988 López Banzo founded the group Al Ayre Español, which sp ...

. DHM-BMG05472 77696 2 * Música en tiempos de Goya. José Castell,

Pablo Esteve Pablo Esteve y Grimau (1730–1794) was a Spanish composer. Esteve was conductor and house-composer for the Teatro de la Cruz in Madrid during the peak of the popularity of the ''tonadilla'' genre. The risque nature of the ''tonadilla'' meant that ...

and Antonio Guerrero. La Real Cámara.

Emilio Moreno Emilio Moreno is a Spanish violin and viola player and conductor. With his brother José Miguel Moreno, a lutenist, he founded Glossa Music.Billboard - 18 Jul 1998 - Page 46 Vol. 110, No. 29 "One of the most compelling is Glossa, founded in 1992 as ...

. Glossa GCD 920303 * Música en tiempos de Velazquez. Songs by Juan Hidalgo and José Marín. La Romanesca.

José Miguel Moreno José Miguel Moreno (Madrid, 1955) is a Spanish specialist of historical plucked string instruments, such as the vihuela, lute, theorbo, and guitars. In 1977 he won the First Prize of the Incontri Chitarristici di Gargnano (Italy) and later many ...

. Glossa GCD 920201 * Las mujeres y cuerdas. Songs by

Vicente Martín y Soler Anastasio Martín Ignacio Vicente Tadeo Francisco Pellegrin Martín y Soler (2 May 175430 January or 10 February 1806) was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure now, in his own day he was compared favorably with his ...

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, and

Fernando Sor Fernando Sor (bapt. 14 Feb. 1778, died 10 July 1839) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the Romantic music, Early Romantic era. Best known for writing solo classical guitar music, he also composed an opera (at the age of 19), thr ...

. with

. Glossa GCD920202 * Al alva venid. Enzina, Fuenllana, Mudarra. La Romanesca, José Miguel Moreno. Glossa GCD920203 * Luys De Narvaez: El Delfín de Música. with Juan Carlos Rivera ( vilhuela). Almaviva DS-0116 1999 With ensembles * Juan Frances de Iribarren. Pardiobre. Cantadas y Villancicos inéditos de la catedral de Málaga. Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla. Director: Alfredo Bernardini Discos Prometeo. OBS-003 *

Júpiter y Semele. zarzuela. Al Ayre Español 2CD HMI987036/37 *

: Miserere. Al Ayre Español DHM-BMG 05472 77532 2 * Literes: Acis y Galatea. Al Ayre Español DHM-BMG 05472 77522 2 *

José de Torres José de Torres y Martínez Bravo (16701738) was a Spanish composer, organist, music theorist and music publisher. Biography Torres was born in Madrid, where he served as organist of the ''capilla real'' from 1697. With the arrival of the Bourbon ...

: Cantadas. Al Ayre Español DHM-BMG 05472 77503 2 * Literes: Los Elementos. Al Ayre Español DHM-BMG05472 77385 2 *

: Viento es la dicha de Amor.

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Ensemble Baroque de Limoges

Christophe Coin Christophe Coin (; born 26 January 1958) is a French cellist, viola da gamba player and conductor active in the field of historically informed performance. He is the cellist of the Quatuor Mosaïques and is the director of the Ensemble Baroque de L ...

. 2CD Auvidis/Valois V 4752 *

Heinrich Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ( bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl Li ...

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Agostino Steffani Agostino Steffani (25 July 165412 February 1728) was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer. Biography Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto on 25 July 1654. As a boy he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice. In 1667, ...

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DHM-BMG 05472 77344 2 *

Juan de Araujo Juan de Araujo (1646–1712) was a musician and composer of the Early to Mid Baroque. Araujo was born in Villafranca, Spain. By 1670 he was nominated ''maestro di cappella'' of Lima Cathedral, Peru. In the following years he travelled to P ...

: L’or et l’argent du haut-Péru. Marta Almajano (soprano), Maîtrise Boréale,

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Gabriel Garrido Gabriel Garrido is an Argentinian conductor specialising in Italian baroque and the recovery of the baroque musical heritage of Latin America. Garrido was born 1950 in Buenos Aires, and at the age of 17 with the Argentine recorder quartet, Pro Arte ...

K617 K617038 M7 867 *

Juan Francés de Iribarren Juan Francés de Iribarren (Sangüesa, 1699 – Málaga, 2 September 1767) was a Spanish late baroque composer. Life and career Iribarren was christened on 24 March 1699 at the Church of St. James the Great in Sangüesa. He was a choirboy in the '' ...

Cantadas - Mas no puede ser. Al Ayre Español DHM-BMG 05472 77325 2 *

Boccherini Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and ''galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European ...

. Aria Accademica G557. Ensemble Baroque de Limoges Astrée-Auvidis E 8517 * A century of Spanish Baroque Music. Al Ayre Español Fidelio 9205 1993

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