Title: Bolivian Baroque Vol. I Florilegium Performers: Florilegium Ashley Solomon baroque flute,recorder Kati Debretzeni violin Sarah Moffatt violin Jennifer Morsches cello Robert Nairn bass Eligio Quinteiro theorbo, guitar James Johnstone harpsichord,organ Bolivian soloists Katia Escalera soprano Henry Villca tenor Alejandra Wayar soprano Gian-Carla Tisera mezzo soprano Notes & Reviews SACD-Requires Special CD Player Released: 2004 Booklet: 32 pages Booklet printed in the following languages: English, French Libretto printed in the following languages: English, Latin Baroque Music in the Jesuit Reducciones (Settlements) The study of the music in the South American archives has revolutionized our knowledge of the musical culture in the urban and missionary centres between the XVI and XVIII Centuries in the Americas. European, native South American and Creole (Spaniards born in South America) composers and musicians created a uniquely South American Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, comparable in its magnitude and originality to the musical innovations of the outstanding European musical centres of that time. To date two important collections of South American missionary music have been preserved. The first can be found in Concepcin, Bolivia, at the Library of the Vicariato Apostlico de Nuflo de Chvez. This collection comes from the missionary churches of San Rafael and Santa Ana. The other, discovered and organised more recently, belongs to the collection of music manuscripts of the former Jesuit Mission of the Moxos Indians, in Bolivia. Copies of the latter were still being produced up to the 1990s. Several vocal works with accompaniment can be found in both collections, as well as a truly exceptional group of instrumental pieces within the Latin American repertoire, which usually consists only of a vocal and choral repertoire and not an instrumental one. Although a big part of the composition is of Indian authorship (with texts in native languages: Chiquitana, Baure, Moxa, Canichana, Guarani), the manuscripts include also six Masses of Giovanni Battista Bassani (1657-1716), two motets by Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner (1689-1720) and 14 compositions by Domenico Zipolli (1688-1726), which have been used as models for the music teaching which was disseminated at the missions. Its value is unique and is the only means of clarifying our knowledge of the musical culture of the ancient missions in the Americas...... Titles   Tracks and Sound Clips Beatus Vir, for soprano, choir, 2 violins & continuo: Beatus vir Beatus Vir, for soprano, choir, 2 violins & continuo: Exortum est Beatus Vir, for soprano, choir, 2 violins & continuo: Incundus homo Beatus Vir, for soprano, choir, 2 violins & continuo: Peccator videbit Beatus Vir, for soprano, choir, 2 violins & continuo: Gloria Patri Beatus Vir, for soprano, choir, 2 violins & continuo: Sicut erat Sonata Chiquitanas 18 for 2 violins & continuo: Allegro Sonata Chiquitanas 18 for 2 violins & continuo: Andante Sonata Chiquitanas 18 for 2 violins & continuo: Presto Aqui ta naqui Iyai, for voice & ensemble: Aqui ta naqui Aqui ta naqui Iyai, for voice & ensemble: Chapie, iyai Jesu Christo In hoc Mundo, for voice & ensemble: Sonata In hoc Mundo, for voice & ensemble: Recitative In hoc mundo In hoc Mundo, for voice & ensemble: In te spero In hoc Mundo, for voice & ensemble: Recitative Eia Ioannes In hoc Mundo, for voice & ensemble: Tunc lectus organis La Folia, for 2 violins: Allegro La Folia, for 2 violins: Largo La Folia, for 2 violins: Allegro In hac Mensa Novi Regis, aria for voice & ensemble Caema, Iyae Jesus, motet for voice & ensemble: Sonata Caema, Iyae Jesus, motet for voice & ensemble: Recitative Caema, Iyae Jesus Caema, Iyae Jesus, motet for voice & ensemble: Acuacereca inema Pastoreta Ychepe Flauta, for recorder, violin & continuo: Untitled Pastoreta Ychepe Flauta, for recorder, violin & continuo: Allegro Pastoreta Ychepe Flauta, for recorder, violin & continuo: Adagio Pastoreta Ychepe Flauta, for recorder, violin & continuo: Allegro Ascendit Deus in jubilatione, aria for voice & ensemble Exaltate Regem Regum, for voice & ensemble Improvisation