La Ritirata offers a program conceived as a map of the sounds we could hear during an imaginary journey to the courts of Italy and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. For this purpose, the conductor and cellist Josetxu Obregón has rescued some of the most sublime and representative pages of Antonio de Cabezón, Gaspar Sanz, Diego Ortiz and other composers halfway between the Renaissance and the Baroque. The suggestive title of the project, Il Spiritillo Brando, refers both to the palatial dances of the Spanish viceroyalty in Italian lands and to the mischievous sprites of the Neapolitan popular tradition.