il spiritillo brando

Diego Ortiz
1. Recercadas sobre tenores italianos

Andrea Falconieri
2. Corriente dicha la Mora
3. Ciaccona
4. La Benedetta

Giovanni Battista Vitali
5. Toccata
6. Bergamasca

Dario Castello
7. Sonata II a sopran solo

Andrea Falconieri
8. La Suave Melodia
9. Passacalle
10. Alemana dicha Villega

Giuseppe Maria Jacchini 
11. Sonata VIII

Juan Cabanilles
12. Corrente italiana

Diego Ortiz
13. Recercadas sobre "Doulce Memoire"

Andrea Falconieri
14. Folias echa para mi Señora

Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde
15. Fantasia basso solo

Giovanni Gabrieli
16. Ricercare del VII e VIII tono

Andrea Falconieri
17. Corrente detta L'Auellina
18. Corriente dicha la Cuella
19. Il Spiritillo Brando
20. Brando dicho el Melo

Anonymous
21. Chacona

Domenico Gabrielli
22. Ricercare V

Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde
23. Canzon quinta a tre

Andrea Falconieri
24. Battaglia de Barabaso


Andrea Falconieri
Il Spiritillo Brando
Dance music in the courts of Italy and Spain, c.1650


La Ritirata

Tamar Lalo, recorders — Miren Zeberio, baroque violin — Raúl Orellana, baroque violin — Enrike Solinís, baroque guitar & archlute — Daniel Zapico, theorbo — Ignacio Prego, hapsichord — Daniel Oyarzábal, chest organ — Sara Águeda, triple harp — David Mayoral, percussion

Josetxu Obregón, baroque cello & direction


Spiritillo: Celestial entity brought into being by popular imagination, which has existed in the streets of Naples over many centuries, moving from house to house like a malicious little demon, and serving to justify human faults and weaknesses.

Brando: An Italian variant for the branle, a French dance from the Renaissance, whose steps and movements are set down in the dance manual Orchesographie (1588) by Thoinot Arbeau (the pseudonym of Jehan Tabourot, a canon at Langres Cathedral).