Track list:

La Bruja • La Carretera • Los Juiles • Siquisiri • Los Chiles Verdes • La Lloroneita • María Chuchena • El Gallo • Fandanguito • Aguanieve

This original program presents the music of Spanish composers Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739) and Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710), combined with present day folk music “Son Jarocho” from Veracruz, Mexico, which bears a strong resemblance to Spanish baroque music. This music follows the same harmonic and rhythmic patterns as the traditional baroque dance forms.

In his Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, first published in 1674, Gaspar Sanz has included a variety of sones and dances, both strummed and plucked, in the Spanish, Italian, French and English styles. Some of the sones that appear in this treatise are: Villano, Españoleta, Canarios, Folias, Marizápalos and Jácaras. These Spanish sones are the forerunners of the ones that can be found nowadays among the popular musicians in many regions of Mexico, notably in the states of Jalisco, Guerrero, and Veracruz.

The present recording brings a new and fresh approach to this venture by taking the music from both groups, baroque and jarocho, and playing them simultaneously, using the original music from the baroque guitar collections to accompany sones sung to the traditional melodies. • Sung by María Cristina Kiehr, one of the best known sopranos in Baroque repertoire (she worked with René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, Franz Brüggen, Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and many others), with guitarist Krishnasol Jiménez and Roberto Koch, bass.