Florilegium, Bolivian Soloists - Bolivian Baroque: Baroque music from the missions of Chiquitos and Moxos Indians (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 465 Mb | Total time: 75:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | # CCS SA 22105 | Recorded: 2004
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 465 Mb | Total time: 75:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Channel Classics | # CCS SA 22105 | Recorded: 2004
During the past decade or so, interest in Baroque music composed and/or performed in South American cities–particularly the cathedrals–has inspired a number of recordings. This one focuses on European-style 18th-century vocal and instrumental music from the Jesuit "Reducciones", or "settlements" in Bolivia. Not only was there a regular flow of music and musicians (and musical instruments) to South America from Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, but over time native-born composers trained in church-run schools began contribute their own works to what became an enormous body of instrumental and vocal repertoire.