This year’s early-music season is beginning with something that might be called chaconne fever.

The program, “The Kingdoms of Castille: Spanish, Italian and Latin American Music,” was created and performed by the ensemble El Mundo and its founder and director, the guitarist Richard Savino. Given the focus on 17th-century Spain, it is no surprise that the chaconne — as omnipresent in that era as the macarena was in the late 1990s — found its way in.

Read the rest of the NYTimes article on El Mundo here