Javier Mendoza - Hasme Reir (Make Me Laugh): Hispanic & American Music for Clavichord (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Hasme reir
02. Toccata
03. Ungría
04. Obra del I Tono
05. Folias, (Tema con variaciones)
06. Príncipe
07. Retirada del Emperador de los Dominicos de España
08. Primer Tono
09. Tiento pequeño y fácil de séptimo tono
10. Tiento de medio registro de dos tiples de segundo tono
11. Fabordones del primer tono
12. Diferencias sobre el canto llano del Caballero

“Hasme reir” (Make Me Laugh) it’s a recital program of Spanish and Spanish-American music from the “virreinal” period, played on a clavichord. Among the composers on this album we will find Doménico Zípoli, (1688-1726), Correa de Arauxo, (1584-1654), Antonio de Cabezón, (1510-1576) and Sor María Clara del Santísimo Sacramento, (1806-1861) a Mexican nun from the order of the “Concepcionistas” who wrote lots of pieces found in a book called “Cuaderno de tonos de maitines”.

Also on this recording are four pieces by unknown composers found in a book called “Sones mo órgano” discovered at San Rafael, at the “Misiones Jesuíticas de Chiquitos, Bolivia” A unique and unusual baroque music programme performed in a rare instrument. Javier Mendoza a young Mexican musician involved in historical research and historical informed playing is the perfect soloist for this music.

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