Spanish violinist Cristina Prats Costa presents her debut solo debut album, a vibrant portrait of the sound world of 17th and early 18th century music shaped by the cultures of the Mediterranean. Inspired by Andrea Falconieri’s Il Spiritillo Brando, the album takes the spiritillo – a mischievous, animating sprite – as a metaphor for the Baroque imagination: a realm of invention, improvisation, and richly ornamented dialogue. The Mediterranean emerges here not as a boundary but as a crossroads, where Italian virtuosity, Spanish rhythmic fire, and French elegance converge. The program features music by Andrea Falconieri, Nicola Matteis, Johann Schop, Heinrich Biber, Jean Féry Rebel, and Antonio Vivaldi. Cristina Prats Costa includes her own arrangements of works by Spanish composers Santiago de Murcia, Gaspar Sanzm and José de Nebra. The addition of castanets in the Spanish pieces and the inclusion of percussion and Baroque guitar throughout add an unmistakable Iberian rhythmic vitality.