Folias & Canarios

During the Renaissance and Baroque periods, every good musician had to be a complete master of the art of improvising ornamentation and variations on universally known themes. As the modern descendants of this tradition, the virtuosi of Hespèrion XX here give a dazzling performance of some of these glosas on popular dances like the folía, canario and jácara - little masterpieces of invention.

On their through Spain and Italy, alternating viol consort, double harp, guitar, theorbe, they breathe new life into a brilliant repertory in which learned and popular music are closer than have ever been since.

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