Seis Hermanas

Sergio Moure’s score for “Seis Hermanas” is aware of many things: the fundamental value of music as part of the drama, of the emotional content it has to provide to the image and the story, and how damaging is to provoke an easy emotion in the viewer. The classical tone of a production such as “Seis Hermanas” requires a more traditional approach, without the postmodern turns we can find in cinema or TV shows with a more transgressive spirit.

Sergio Moure’s score for “Seis Hermanas” is aware of many things: the fundamental value of music as part of the drama, of the emotional content it has to provide to the image and the story, and how damaging is to provoke an easy emotion in the viewer. The classical tone of a production such as “Seis Hermanas” requires a more traditional approach, without the postmodern turns we can find in cinema or TV shows with a more transgressive spirit. In the 54 tracks of this edition, Sergio Moure drives us through a highway of emotions, avoiding excesses, choosing wisely which parts need more emphasis, but, in general, aiming for a healthy austerity. From the beautiful main theme, the score places the viewer not just in a determined historical period, but in a predefined genre context and the composer is faithful to the predefined canons (although, as well as the main characters, sometimes he allows himself to break the convention). Music stablishes a connection with the six main characters and makes us part of their emotions, dreams, worries, love stories and also their concerns. Performed by the Gaos Orchestra, conducted by Fernando L. Briones, and recorded in Mans Studios, one of the biggest challenges was to create music for a daily TV show (496 episodes), with a wide cast, parallel plots, recording with the orchestra, and keeping a thematic coherence and the musical and emotional development of the whole production. Since the beginning, the music empathizes with the main characters and becomes one of their main supporters. Although we can find several dark parts regarding the different threats to the Silva Family, the main tone of the score regards beauty, happiness and optimism, as well as nostalgia and intimacy. Strings and winds give color and versatility; however, when we come to the emotional tone, the highlight is the piano, protagonist of the whole score and one of the structuring elements of the music. It is a rich, varied, highly stylized score, which, without losing sight on the emotional weight of the show, avoids wisely succumbing to sentimentality and excess. It is a honest, deeply-felt work that is wonderfully transmitted to the audience.

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