iego Navarro’s music is mainly orchestral, which is a key point in order to consider his contribution to Spanish cinema. His style has been influenced by two completely different schools: the American scene with composers like John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith or Bernard Hermann and the Italian one with Ennio Morriconne or Luis Bacalov, born in Argentina but belonging to this last school. The combination of these influences provides the listener with a music that describes with accuracy the emotions told in a script, using rich and complex orchestrations, that make us follow and understand the story just by listening to its soundtrack. The music critic, Miguel A. Aguiar has published about him:
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"Diego Navarro
seems to have in great degree the necessary qualities
to tell, to suggest or to anticipate in sounds,
the ups and downs of the script, the psychological
atmospheres, the essential ideas of a story made
moving images. For that he uses a mainly tonal language
where melodies are clearly introduced and defined,
easily flowing through the different orchestra sections". |
We really have to insist on the extremely descriptive nature of this author’s music. When listening to any of Navarro’s compositions we can go from an euphoric state to a deep terrifying feeling, or see ourselves involved in a very intimate story, and all this may very well be part of the same piece. Below you will read diferent reviews about the composer´s music written by some prestigious critics: "Maybe Diego Navarro´s name does not quite ring a bell. Write down this name in your memory in case you have to remember it for the next years. We are facing a self-made man, just as any American would say..." (Ignacio Pérez – Sergio Hardasmal – Film Music (Film Score Monthly- Spanish edition). About “Film Works” Album: "This album includes among other Navarro's compositions, the cartoon film Time Gate (nominated to the Spanish film awards, the Goyas). Here, Navarro demonstrates the high quality of his music, his ability for epic and romantic themes. This album shows that Diego Navarro is a composer with great future in the Spanish cinema" (Ruiz de Villalobos – Imágenes de Actualidad). "Promotional CD of this very interesting composer from the Canary Islands and his film works, he is a young musician with a classical background who has created a soundtrack (Time Gate) for full symphonic orchestra and choir, with themes that tell the situations, go with the action, describe movements and sensations and create the hallmark that every film requires to be different from the rest" (Joan Padrol – Dirigido por).
After the world premiere of La Tercera Cruzada we could read in a visitors’ book, open to the public writings, remarks such as:
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“You’ve
made us vibrate intensively. During the performance
of your composition we went, like if we were riding
on a roller coaster, through very opposite feelings,
you only had to close your eyes to visualize in
your mind the film you were trying to tell with
your music. Bravo, maestro…” |
Navarro proves the clear evidence
of what music can provide, just like Miguel
A. Aguiar says:
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"A useful
and actual musical genre which belongs to that
spectacular type considered by A. Baricco an essential
ingredient in nowadays artistic and musical expression".
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