I am Gustavo de Francisco, musician and producer of Quinta Essentia Quartet. The group will perform in Berlin on September/2018, and is looking for other venues in Germany or Europe to make extra concerts in benefit of this travel. Because of that, the
group offers to your music programming for the next year a chamber music concert with the most important recorder ensemble from Brazil, featuring dozens of strange and fancy instruments from the Recorder family (read about the instrumentarium below), the
Brazilian music accent, and of course, very good music and virtuosity. The group can also to offer recorder, early music and/or chamber music masterclasses.

The group offers 2 repertoires: Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” and “Caboclo” featuring Brazilian music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Radamés Gnattali and other composers.

Please follow the links below to watch our videos and visit our website.

Gustavo de Francisco
5e@5eofficial.com.br
phone: +55 (11) 99666-0497
skype: gustavofrancisco


LINKS
Website: http://5eofficial.com
Video: www.youtube.com/essentiaquarteto
Press and media: http://bit.ly/5eofficial


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ABOUT QUINTA ESSENTIA
“Once all members played together, it created a sound unmatched by anything I’ve heard before. It was music of the heavens, and the quartet was the angelic ensemble playing at the gates.”
(Pablo Medina, NEIU Independent, 2016)

Four musicians but only one instrument. After 12 years of history, the Quinta Essentia Quartet is one of the main Brazilian chamber groups, and one of the few to promote the Recorder and Brazilian chamber music all around the world. Always looking beyond
the edges, the Quinta Essentia works with Brazilian composers to bring new music for this unusual formation: the recorder quartet. Because of that, the group is know as the Brazilian Recorder Quartet, being invited to perform in many countries of all
continents. Winner of several awards, the group is producing an important discography for the recorder in Brazil, highlighting the album “La Marca” (2008), “Falando Brasileiro” (2014), and “The Art of Fugue” (2017) featuring the masterpiece
by Johann Sebastian Bach on historical instruments.


CABOCLO repertoire
watch a trailer: https://youtu.be/D19cOLjW3og

This work by Quinta Essentia Quartet presents the music of four Brazilian gifted composers, as well as their stories and legends.

About Heitor Villa-Lobos, perhaps the greatest Brazilian composer internationally known, we point out two of his compositional series: As Bachianas Brasileiras and the Chôros. The group presents the Aria of the Bachianas nº 5, well known by the great
audience, and the Chôros nº 4, considered by the composer “the most significant of the Chôros in its form and signification”, and also by other authors as the image of the simple people’s life in the big cities’ suburbs, which the melodies
have an ironical lyricism, based on the traditional form of the popular dance music from the foreign countries.

About César Gerra-Peixe, we emphasize his passion for Pernambuco folklore, when in 1949, visited Recife and accepted a radio station contract to study in place the less known aspects of this tradition, that resulted in one very emblematic piece of music
of this style: Mourão, where the sound of fifes and fiddles rejoin in the Maracatu rhythm.

From Radamés Gnattali, we flaunt his style that shows great mastery of Brazilian rhythms and unconventional harmonies, transcending prejudices and conducting the dancing characteristics and beautiful melodies of Brazilian music to the concert music. A
guest of honor for this work, which lends us his Lenda and other works, written originally for string quartet and arranged by the Quinta Essentia for modern recorders.

Last but not least, we present the original masterpiece Flautata Doce by Daniel Wolff, PhD and composer with a Grammy Award in his resume, given to the quartet by the composer himself.

With the cultural in influence of the native Americans and white people, together with the mixture of the European instruments with the complexity of the Brazilian music, we have the Caboclo. The legend, the songs and the mixture of the Caboclo
repertoire for recorder quartet will be marked in the memory of whom are open to listen!



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THE ART OF FUGUE repertoire
The fugue, a musical genre that has existed since the Renaissance, reached its peak in the Baroque period thanks to the master of fugues Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The renowned German composer left us a manuscript to 4 voices without indicating
specific entitled “Die Kunst der Fuge” – The Art of Fugue.

This masterpiece, which Bach composed at the end of his life, leaves us perplexed by its perfection and by the musical enigmas of its legacy. A “big task”for Quinta Essentia quartet, which takes as a basis the revelation of the possibilities of a
musical instrument that reached its peak in the same period of fugal excellence: the Baroque.

This example by Bach shows us his versatility and creativity in composing 90 minutes of music in D minor, with its mathematical variations, simple fugues, double and triple fugues and mirrored fugues that if the intricacies of this art do not matter to
us, when enjoying the music, it is enough just to listen to the endless possibilities of playing with the material of the musical art: the sound.

Would the Art of Fugue have remained an unfinished work, or would Bach have written part of the work, and invited other composers to finish it? What is certain is that he signed the work musically in its final subject making use of musical notes B-A-C-H (
in German notation where the “B” correspond to B flat and “H” to the B natural). 270 years later, Quinta Essentia presents this masterpiece on historical instruments.

The Art of Fugue shows Bach’s complete mastery of the most complex form of musical expression within classical music, known as counterpoint, and the complete mastery by Quinta Essentia of the art of making music with recorders.




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INSTRUMENTARIUM
“What kind of instruments are that?”

The recorder features a family of instruments in different sizes and sounds, and Quinta Essentia uses several recorders in their performances. The instruments are chosen according to their sound so as to get the best results at each new engagement.
Playing copies of original musical instruments from various periods of Western music history is part of the research which Quinta Essentia is developing: a historically informed performance of music for recorder quartet, in addition to seeking different
timbres, effects and technique, allied to the research and preparation of the contemporary repertoire for recorder.

The ensemble owns copies of Renaissance instruments: a consort of 9 recorders of different sizes ranges made by the British luthier Adrian Brown. They use copies of Baroque instruments of the 17th and 18th centuries made by luthiers from various
countries (Holland, France, Germany, Japan and Brazil), and also modern instruments such as the Paetzold’s Square Recorders.

The square recorder is the result of research by the German makers Joachim and Herbert Paetzold. In the recorder literature there are instruments in different sizes that are usually cylindrical. Herbert Petzold developed square recorders similar to the
corresponding cylindrical ones, based on organ pipes, since the pipes in this instrument work like recorders. There are organs in which the pipes are square and made out of wood, so starting from this principle, Paetzold made square recorders. The square
recorders, relative to the corresponding cylindrical models, are smaller in length and have a faster response to the articulation, providing a big difference in the sound for playing modern, contemporary and Brazilian popular music. Nowadays, these
instruments are made by Jo Kunnath

Besides square recorders, Quinta Essentia also uses other modern recorders such as the Helder, and Tarasov harmonic recorders, the Dream Recorders, and the Eagle Recorder. These instruments, which were developed with the aim of extending the historical
recorder’s sound capabilities, feature mechanisms that permit perfectly smooth playing and even produce a change in timbre. Incredible instruments, they completely fulfill the needs of a robust yet at the same time a light and delicate sound, being
designed to perform works of the 20th and 21st centuries with panache.

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