Search - Juan Mathias, Antonio Duran de la Motta, Rafael Antonio Castellanos :: Baroque Music of Latin America

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conquistador69 | 09/17/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In this Dorian recording we hear music by Latin-American composers from South America(Colombia,Venezuela,Peru,and Bolivia) and one Portuguesse composer who worked in Puebla,Mexico....All music after track #10 are christmas carols of the period, two of these carols are anonymous... track #13 was composed by Juan Perez de Bocanegra in Peru, is a hymn in Quechua (The language of the Incas)....Tracks nos. 16,17 and 18 are by Gaspar Fernandes, the manuscript for most of this music were found in Puebla,Mexico...Track #16 is in one of many dialects found in the new world. Tracks nos. 17 and 18 are of a form of popular music at the time, known as 'negrito', this is music that was written for performance by African slaves, because they are in a "broken-down" Spanish, as it was spoken by the african slaves, all three of this villancicos are christmas carols, and I think that this practice was done to make easier the conversions of natives and Africans to christianity....So here in this recording we have a little of the very best of the baroque music in a new world.....The Camerata Renacentista de Caracas do a very good job and the instrumentation is wonderful... I still ask my self this quiestion at times:How much music is still hidden in monasteries an cathedrals in Latin-America???? How many composers might be there be that we still know nothing about them, or their music???????"