Oygan una xacarilla

El Fuego Early Music Ensemble performs at the Beacon Hill Friend's House as part of one of Fringe concerts during the Boston Early Music Festival on Monday June 13th, 2011.
Performers:
James Dargan, baritone; Teri Kowiak, voice; Dan Meyers, recorders and percussion; Camila Parias, soprano; Zoe Weiss, baroque cello. Salome Sandoval, voice, baroque guitar and artistic direction.

El Fuego (meaning fire in Spanish) has impressed audiences with their synthesis of early music and folk styles; their versatility as singers and multi-instrumentalists is shown in their unique repertoire from Spain and the New World colonies. Artistic Director Salome Sandoval has received wide acclaim for singing while providing her own continuo parts on lutes and guitars; together with Teri Kowiak (voice) and Dan Meyers (woodwinds and percussion), they create an unusually rich sound, full of melodic and rhythmic excitement in their performance of Villancicos and Xacaras, keeping the flame of little-known musical masters burning in the 21st century.

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Rafael Antonio Castellanos (1725-1791):
Oygan una xacarilla: Listen to the rhythm of this song called xacarilla, about a sovereign girl that excels brightness like a lantern, a carnation, a sunbeam, a rose and a flame. Listen that I will sing with my echoes. God and the holy trinity give the conceived girl graciousness, life without a sin and broad eternal sovereign light. Her soul is in God's image, she is devoted to his world without sin. God made her a high palm in Paradise, she who from the apple only got grace and purity.

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