Ines & her Cello teacher Romel composed a melody for our Pazo Pegullal Wine. The name of the melody is “Nostalgia”.
I think the piece sounds very nostalgic, as the tittle states. It can be seen when after playing through all the melodies, you hear the first one again before the piece ends. The two melodies, while similar, aren’t exactly the same. This is because when you remember something, you rarely remembered exactly what happened.
I think the way the piece fades out at the end symbolizes the memories you were remembering coming to an end.
After living through all the stages of the memory, you decide to look back on where you started and see just how far you’ve come. The memory ends, and you move forward and start making new memories you will also look back upon in the future.
‘I think the end also symbolizes the wine because, like us, it went through an immense process to be what it currently is. When you drink it you are feeling the process the wine went through, and tasting the grape that enabled the process to happen in the first place.
This is very much like what happens in the piece.
Miss Ines Fernandez Aristegui.
“ Drawing influences from captivating and mystical landscapes of the south Galician region, “Nostalgia”, written for cello and piano, carries the listener on a musical journey depicting the temporal seasons of life as well as the euphoric experience of taking one’s first sip of Pazo Pegullal fine wine.
‘The protagonist of this story, represented by the cello, opens the piece in solitary, introspective melody that, at first musing and hesitant, gains more courage and urgency as the piano enters. The melody then traverses through an alluring and youthful gypsy theme, a more tempestuous episode led by the piano, before finally resolving on the familiar melody first introduced by the cello at the start, this time in unison with the piano.
‘There is a subtle familiarity in its closure, the conjuring of a distant memory, and a yearning for more….”
Mr Romel Shearer.