Performer: Piffaro
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Navona
Catalogue: NV5875
Release: 2012
Size: 302 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Fernandes: Tane Gil tu tamborino
02. Murcia: Folias Gallegas (Arr. G. Herreid)
Cabezón: Obras de música para Tecla, Arpa y Vihuela
03. Diferencias sobre el canto llano del caballero
04. Diferencias sobre la Gallarda milanese
05. Diferencias sobre el canto de la dama le demanda (Arr. C. Patton)
Ortiz: Trattado de glosas
06. Recercada No. 4, “La gamba”
07. Aranés: Una sarao de la chacona, “a la vida bona”
08. Murillo: Nina, con tus libres modos
09. Castro: Sale la blanca aurora
10. anon.: Ay, ay, ay, tres veces ay …! (Spain, 17th Century)
11. Fernandes: Elegit eum Dominus
12. López Capillas: Ego enim a 6
13. Fernandes: De San Jeronimo a 5 Sobre vuestro canto llano
14. anon.: Villano (17th Century) [arr. For chamber ensemble]
15. anon.: Turulu neglo (16th Century)
16. Hernández: Dios itlaconantzine
17. Fernandes: Hoy descubre la grandeza
18. Fernandes: Ah, de Abajo!
19. anon.: Yyai Jesuchristo (Bolivia, 17th Century)
20. Franco: Monstra te esse matrem a 4
Morales: Missa, “Si bona suscepimus”
21. Gloria
Ruiz de Ribayaz: Luz y norte musical
22. Zarambeques
23. anon.: Christianos (Bolivia, 17th Century)
24. anon.: Dulce Jesus mio (Bolivia, 17th Century) [arr. G. Herreid]
25. anon.: Senhora del mundo (Portugal, 16th Century) [arr. For chamber ensemble]
Ruiz de Ribayaz: Luz y norte musical
26. Pabanas
27. anon.: Canarios (17th Century)
28. Murcia: Seguidillas manchegas (Arr. G. Herreid)
29. Nebra: Versos al organo en duo para chiririmias
30. Padilla: Deus in adiutoriuminin
This is the 3rd full Navona Records release from Piffaro, the renaissance band. Los Ministriles in The New World is a broad and varied collection of early music by Spanish composers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Piffaro’s commendable dedication to music-emphasized by the considerable care towards historical accuracy and the use of masterfully crafted period instruments has earned them a sterling reputation as some of the leading purveyors of early music.
Los Ministriles in the New World is an appealing collection from Piffaro “The Renaissance Band” of instrumental music that would have been known and performed in the 16th and 17th centuries in Latin America in the region extending from Mexico to Peru. Spanish and Portuguese sacred and secular music thrived in the New World as composers and performers emigrated west, and the area had a robust musical culture that also drew on indigenous musical traditions. Piffaro is a diverse ensemble made up of a colorful assortment of instruments — recorders, bagpipes, shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, harp, plucked and bowed strings, and percussion — so the album has a wonderful timbral variety, ranging from duets like Zarambeques for harp and vihuela to pieces like Deus in adiutorium meum intende, which employs all the group’s members. The repertoire, too, is varied, including transcriptions of sacred vocal music and songs, instrumental pieces and popular dances. The album makes it clear which instruments perform on which tracks, a helpful guide for listeners unfamiliar with some of the more exotic instruments. The sound is bright and lively. This is an album that should be attractive to fans of early music and it makes an excellent, friendly introduction to music of the era for other listeners willing to dip into new territory.