About
Since 1993 the Venezuelan ensemble Musica Reservata conducted by Sandrah Silvio, has been devoted to the promotion of ancient music, through a comprehensive repertoire ranging from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period. Since its beginnings, has selected new and original repertoires and performed in several theaters, locations and churches, presenting programs such as The Early Polyphony, Angelorum Ministerium, the Livre Vermell de Montserrat, the Medieval original version of Carmina Burana, Ave Maris Stella and Dulcis Amor.
Musica Reservata has recorded 7 CDs including Angelorum Ministerium, a repertoire from the Gregorian Chant to the Polyphony of the Renaissance; Ave Maris Stella, a set of Claudio Monteverdi’s motets dedicated to the Virgin Mary; Dulcis Amor, Love in the Middle Ages, jointly with the Ensemble Modus (Norway) and received the First National Prize of the Venezuelan Artist’ House for this production; the Livre Vermell de Montserrat; El Viaje de Jerusalem - Villanescas y Canciones Espirituales of Francisco Guerrero; Magnificat, a set of motets of Marc’Antoine Charpentier for the Convent of Port Royal and; Tonos Humanos, a journey through Spanish and Latin American baroque music. Musica Reservata has performed in important international festivals in France, England, French Guyana and Venezuela.
CD Ministerium Angelorum
" The medieval compositions are especially virtuous and these women produce a splendid and crystalline sound...It is a pleasure to hear recordings of ancient music of this quality from Venezuela.”
(Jeffrey Nusshaum, New York, Historic Brass Society Newsletter, n° 8, 1995)
CD Ave Maris Stella
“It is touching to see that this refined Venezuelan ensemble has continued to explore this repertory and to interpreting it in so high level.”
(Jeffrey Nusshaum, Historic Brass Society Newsletter, New York, n° 12, 1999.)
CD Dulcis Amor
“Dulcis Amor, not only move us to a stage of the humanity where in spite of all the difficulties there was a space, at least ideally for the love. This recording, removes our labyrinths, transporting us to different stages of mystical achievement in the geography of the human feelings.”
(Joaquín López Mujica, Dulcis Amor, Caracas 15-01-2000.)
Diez años de Musica Reservata
“The characteristics more important in the interpretations of this ensemble is, first, a subtle expressiveness, which is essential for the correct execution of works that were conceived in a perfect balance...and the purity of the voices, of great quality that give to every phrase the right colour.”
(Hugo Alvarez Pifano, El Nacional, Caracas 16-01-2003)