Piffaro

Support future Music of the Americas performances with a gift to Music at Americas Society today! https://bit.ly/musicAS *** In May 2026 the fabulous early music group is back with a program of baroque music from colonial Mexico with a stellar cast of guest singers. Program Introducción 00:00 Sebastián de Aguirre: Pavanas 02:32 Philippe Rogier (c.1561–1596): Canción a 5 04:22 Santiago de Murcia (1673–1739): Jácaras de la Costa 06:32 Francisco de Vidales (c.1630–1702): Los que fueren de buen gusto cittern, guitars, percussion, shawm, sackbut, dulcian, voices Lulling and Dancing 11:21 Francisco Guerrero (1528–1599): Niño Dios d’amor herido 14:50 Gaspar Fernández (fl. early 17th c.): Xikochi 17th c. sources, arr. Grant Herreid: Jácaras 17:04 Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (1590–1664): A la jácara jacarilla voices, vihuela, percussion, recorders, guitars, dulcians, sackbut Fleeing and Following 23:33 Pedro Rimonte (1565–1627): Has visto 26:15 Fernández: Salté de los cielos 30:03 Fernández: Cielo, seme fiel testigo shawm, sackbuts, dulcian, percussion, voices, vihuela, guitars, recorders La Çarabanda 38:23 Anonymous variations, Valderrábano 1547, arr. G. Herreid: Diferencias de la Çarabanda 41:13 text – Luis de Briçeño, melody after Gaspar Sanz, reconstructed by G. Herreid: La Çaravanda Española “muy facil”/Andalo Çaravanda recorders, dulcians, guitars, percussion, voices Intermission Ancient Ancestry 43:07 text – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Music – Aguirre, constructed – G. Herreid: Tocotín 46:19 arr. G. Herreid from late 17th c. sources: Gaita bagpipe, percussion, guitars, voices, recorders, flute, dulcian, sackbut Wonders Are Told 49:45 Guerrero: Esclareçida madre 51:56 Fernández: Maravillas dicen de vos 54:13 Hernando Francisco (fl. 16th c. Mexico): Dios Itlatonantsin 57:48 Francisco: Sankta María voices, recorders, sackbut, guitars, percussion From Death to Life 59:33 Hernando Franco (1532–1585): Memento mei Deus 01:02:32 Cristóbal de Morales (1500–1553): Circumdederunt me 01:04:29 Franco: Qui Lazarum resuscitasti 01:08:00 Plainchant from Graduale Dominicale, Nahuatl translation Bernardino de Sahagún, Daniel Chico/Brujo de la Mancha: Ascendens Galilea tlakatl 01:09:51 Guerrero: Christus in altum/ Ascendit Deus in jubilatione voices, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders A Serene Night 01:13:46 Fray Jerónimo González de Mendoza (fl.1633–1661), dances interpolated by G. Herreid: Serenísima una noche voices, winds, guitars, percussion Program created by Priscilla Herreid Piffaro Héloïse Degrugillier – recorder, flute, percussion Grant Herreid – cittern, vihuela, recorder, voice Priscilla Herreid – shawm, recorder, dulcian Greg Ingles – sackbut, recorder, percussion Sian Ricketts – shawm, recorder, dulcian Erik Schmalz – sackbut, recorder, percussion Jonatan Alvarado – tenor, guitar Cecilia Duarte – mezzo-soprano Estelí Gomez – soprano Danny Mallon – percussion Ben Matus – dulcian, bagpipes, recorder Andrew Padgett – bass-baritone Nell Snaidas – soprano Daniel Swenberg – guitar Dani Zanuttini-Frank – guitar This concert was part of GEMAS, a project of Americas Society and Gotham Early Music Scene devoted to early music of the Americas, co-curated by Nell Snaidas and Sebastian Zubieta. For more information, visit https://www.as-coa.org/events/piffaro...