The Golden Jewels of Zacateca and Potosi

Galliarda perform some of the music that emerged from such musical centres as Mexico City, Zacateca, Cuzco and Potosi - where new and old world musical tradition, instruments and languages merged in the seventeenth-century.

The new world cities of Zacateca in Mexico and Potosi were developed in the sixteenth-centuries in the Spanish quest for gold. What was found in far greater quantities in both high-altitude settlements was silver. By the seventeenth-century a fusion of locally composed music and instruments such as the charango and cornet, had entered and altered the church music that the Spanish had brought, most notably in the percussive rhythms of Andean indigenous dance music.

Includes an illustrated short pre-concert talk on the textiles of the Inca Culture and introduction to the concert.

Sara Stowe: Soprano/percussion
Ibrahim Aziz: Viol
Katie Allsop: Recorder
Matthew Spring: Baroque Guitar/Theorbo
Tamsin Cowell (Cornett)
Catherine Chapman: Soprano
Lewis Spring: Baroque Guitar/Alto