Moon, Sun & All Things is the second installment in Hyperion's Baroque Music in Latin America series featuring the talents of Jeffrey Skidmore and his extraordinary Baroque ensemble, Ex Cathedra. Like its predecessor, New World Symphonies, this volume is drawn from the same seemingly inexhaustible spring of Baroque sacred music composed south of the border that has resulted in a slew of interesting offerings in recent times. Even as Skidmore was in Bolivia researching this disc, he ran into the group Florilegium, which was ...
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Moon, Sun & All Things is the second installment in Hyperion's Baroque Music in Latin America series featuring the talents of Jeffrey Skidmore and his extraordinary Baroque ensemble, Ex Cathedra. Like its predecessor, New World Symphonies, this volume is drawn from the same seemingly inexhaustible spring of Baroque sacred music composed south of the border that has resulted in a slew of interesting offerings in recent times. Even as Skidmore was in Bolivia researching this disc, he ran into the group Florilegium, which was recording its Bolivian Baroque for Channel Classics. Be that as it may, there appears to be plenty of this music to go around; of the 16 selections on the disc, only the Quecha-language chorus Hanacpachap cussicuinin seems to have been recorded before, and that's because Skidmore also picked it to open New World Symphonies. The Manuel de Zumaya piece Albricas, mortales! sounds a lot like his recessional Angelicas milicias, and while these works are closely related, they are not quite...
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