La Ritirata, Josetxu Obregón – Andrea Falconieri: Il Spiritillo Brando – Dance music in the courts of Italy and Spain, c.1650 (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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La Ritirata, Josetxu Obregón – Andrea Falconieri: Il Spiritillo Brando – Dance music in the courts of Italy and Spain, c.1650 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:35 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Glossa

With Il Spiritillo Brando from La Ritirata comes an opportunity to enjoy exciting performances from a new name on the Spanish early music scene as well as a thrilling ride across the terrain of the Spanish and Italian courtly instrumental traditions as the Renaissance danced its way into the Baroque.

Not since the days when brothers José Miguel and Emilio Moreno made their first recordings for Glossa has any Spanish musician been invited to figure on the label from El Escorial. This is now changing with the arrival of the talents of Josetxu Obregón and his Spanish colleagues from La Ritirata – counting amongst them the best in the younger string, plucked-string, wind and keyboard players from the country – as they bring us the dance rhythm delights of Andrea Falconieri, whose music leads the way into contributions from the likes of Diego Ortiz and Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde; permitting the individual members of La Ritirata to demonstrate their virtuosic skills and commitment to the music that they perform. This includes Josetxu Obregón himself, who as a cellist, delights in music from late 17th century exponents of the cello in Giuseppe Maria Jacchini, Giovanni Battista Vitali and Domenico Gabrielli.

As the title implies, Il Spiritillo Brando evokes both the social dancing which will have taken place in the court of the Spanish viceroyalty in Naples itself, and the mischievous duendes which roamed the streets, animating all the proceedings in the vicinity!
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La Ritirata & Josetxu Obregón – Quella pace gradita: The Recorder & Violin Cantatas (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

La Ritirata & Josetxu Obregón – Quella pace gradita: The Recorder & Violin Cantatas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:56 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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In a new recording of music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Josetxu Obregón’s La Ritirata parades its dazzling vocal and instrumental talents in presenting the four cantatas which involve recorders and violins, together with an additional standalone soprano aria, for a further Glossa Neapolitan-flavoured release. Drawn from his well over 800 secular cantatas these works combine fully-integrated, imaginative recitatives, expressive and dramatic arias and colourful and exacting instrumental sinfonias and ritornelli into elegant and compact wholes, and featuring poetic texts which typically followed the aspirations of the Accademia degli Arcadi literary circle initiated in Rome around the turn of the eighteenth century. The scene for Scarlatti’s prolific creativity is set by Stefano Russomanno in his booklet essay. The vocal duties are assigned to three leading interpreters of today, mezzo Giuseppina Bridelli, countertenor Filippo Mineccia and soprano Alicia Amo. Rising here to the instrumental challenges set by Scarlatti are long-standing members of La Ritirata, Tamar Lalo (recorder) and Hiro Kurosaki (violin), who are joined on their respective instruments by Michael Form and Pablo Prieto. With cellist Obregón, Lalo and Kurosaki had been the leading soloists for La Ritirata’s recent “Neapolitan Concertos for various instruments“ release.

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La Ritirata & Josetxu Obregón – Caldara: Works for Cello (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

La Ritirata & Josetxu Obregón – Caldara: Works for Cello (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:21:21 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glossa

Founded by Josetxu Obregón when he was based in The Netherlands, the ensemble La Ritirata takes its name from the final movement of the famous quintet composed by Luigi Boccherini in Spain, entitled “La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid”.

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Josetxu Obregón – Celloevolution: From Bolohgna to Cöthen (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Josetxu Obregón - Celloevolution: From Bolohgna to Cöthen (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Josetxu Obregón – Celloevolution: From Bolohgna to Cöthen (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:58 minutes | 1004 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Glossa

What was the first composition ever written for solo violoncello? What was composed before Bach created his extraordinary Suites for Solo Cello? These questions drove the cellist Josetxu Obregón to devote himself to the beginnings of solo literature for his instrument. These beginnings can be found in the city of Bologna, which, with its brilliant Capella Musicale and the Accademia Filarmonica, made a decisive contribution to the development of the violin and the cello.
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