Cal Performances presents Folias Antiquas & Criollas: From the Old World to the New featuring Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XXI & Tembembe Ensamble Continuo
2014-03-01
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA
8:00 PM, Saturday, March 1, 2014

Folías Antiguas

[8:05 PM lights down, musicians enter, tuning]

1. [8:08 PM] Diego Ortíz (ca. 1510 – ca. 1570): La Spagna (Recercadas from Trattado de Glosas, 1553)
2. [8:10 PM] Anonymous (CMP 121) Folías antiguas: (improvisations from the Cancionero musical de palacio, 1499) on El cervel mi fa
3. [8:13 PM] Anonymous Folías “Rodrigo Martinez”: (improvisations from the Cancionero musical de palacio, 1499)
   [8:15 PM sequence ends]
    
4. [8:18 PM] Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710): Jácaras (La Petenera) (song from Tixtla)
   [8:25 PM piece ends]
    
   Five more pieces by Diego Ortíz from Trattado de Glosas
5. [8:28 PM] Folía IV
6. [8:30 PM] Passamezzo antico I
7. [8:31 PM] Passamezzo moderno III
8. [8:34 PM] Ruggiero Romanesca VII
9. [8:35 PM] Passamezzo moderno II
   [8:38 PM sequence ends]
    
10. [8:40 PM] Pedro Guerrero (b. ca. 1520): Moresca La perra mora (from Cancionero de Medinaceli, ca. 1580)
11. [8:42 PM] Antonio de Cabezón (1510–1566): Folías “Pavana con su glosa” (from Luis Venegas de Henestrosa’s Libro de cifra nueva, 1557)
12. [8:48 PM] Juan García de Zéspedes (ca. 1619–1678): Guaracha (traditional tune from Tixtla & improvisations - perhaps Ay Que Me Abraso)
    [8:49 PM sequence ends]
    [set ends 8:50 PM after musicians bow to applause]

Celtic Traditions in the New World

[9:08 PM lights down, Jordi enters alone, tuning]

1. [9:09 PM] Regents Rant (Traditional Scottish)
2. [9:m PM] Crabs in the Skillet (Ryan’s Mammoth Collection of 1,050 Reels & Jigs, Boston, 1883)
3. [9:13 PM] Lord Moira’s Hornpipe (Ryan’s Mammoth Collection of 1,050 Reels & Jigs, Boston, 1883)
   [9:15 PM sequence ends, JS bows and then leaves, pause, then all but JS return]
    
   Two (or three?) works by Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739) from the Mexican Saldívar Codex No. 4 manuscript
4. [9:17 PM] Traditional Jarocho
5. [9:21 PM] Fandango — El Fandanguillo
   [9:25 PM sequence ends; JS returns]
    
6. [9:28 PM] Antonio Martín y Coll (died 1734): Diferencias (& improvisations) sobre las Folías (from Flores de música, 1708)
   [9:37 PM sequence ends; tuning]
    
7. [9:40 PM] Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584-1654): Glosas sobre “Todo el mundo en general” (from Facultad orgánica, 1626)
8. [9:44 PM] Anonymous: Canarios (improvisations)
   [9:50 PM sequence interrupted for applause]
9. [9:51 PM] Antonio Valente (improvisations): Gallarda Napolitana » El Jarabe Loco
   [set ends 9:56 PM, bows & applause; musicians off at 9:57 PM, back in a minute]
    
   Encore
10. [9:58 PM] (Comments from Jordi, and brief demos of most of the instruments)
11. [10:05 PM] (Improvisation on a song/dance from 18th Century Peru)
    [show ends 10:10 PM, bows & applause; musicians off at 10:11 PM]

• Xavier Diaz-Latorre: baroque guitar, harmony vox;
• Andrew Lawrence King: arpa cruzada;
• David Mayoral: battle drum, dumbek, tambourines, castanets, percussion;
• Jordi Savall: treble viol (anonymous Italian, ca. 1500), seven-string bass viol (Barak Norman, London, 1697).

Tembembe Ensamble Continuo

• Enrique Barona: huapanguera, son jarocho leona, jarana jarocha 3a, jarana jarocha mosquito, quijada de caballo, maracas, pandero, lead and harmony vox;
• Leopoldo Novoa Mantallana: marimbol, guitarra de son 3a, jarana huasteca, harmony vox:
• Ulises Martinez: violin, guitarra de son, lead and harmony vox.

An excellent first set! Stupidly, I left my S4 at home, so the timings above are somewhat questionable. Further, the program notes don't correspond perfectly with the program, so it's likely that there are errors in the setlist given above due to my misinterpretation of that information.

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