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Bolivian Baroque Volume 3
Music for the Mission and La Plata
James Johnstone (organ)
Florilegium, Arakaendar Bolivia Choir, Ashley Solomon
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, Disc of the month
The sound is captivating - wholly unmannered, fresh-toned and inexhaustibly animated...Their commitment, enjoyment and communication is palpable...the music itself is totally absorbing from...
Bolivian Baroque Volume 3
Music for the Mission and La Plata
James Johnstone (organ)
Florilegium, Arakaendar Bolivia Choir, Ashley Solomon
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, Disc of the month
The sound is captivating - wholly unmannered, fresh-toned and inexhaustibly animated...Their commitment, enjoyment and communication is palpable...the music itself is totally absorbing from...
About
Welcome to our third volume of Bolivian Baroque music which was, unusually, recorded in three different venues, in two different countries almost 6250 miles apart. This time the majority of the cd was recorded in Holland during Arakaendar Bolivia Choir’s first tour of Europe with Florilegium in 2008. In addition we have included a number of solo organ pieces from the Bolivian archives which James Johnstone recorded on the restored anonymous 18th century Blockwerk organ in the Mission Church of Santa Ana de Chiquitos. This is the first European recording on this remarkable instrument, its raw sound recorded here for posterity.
Contents and tracklist
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Ashley Solomon
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Ashley Solomon
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir, Florilegium
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Ashley Solomon
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Ashley Solomon
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Florilegium
- James Johnstone
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Ashley Solomon
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Ashley Solomon
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Ashley Solomon
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Ashley Solomon
- Florilegium & Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
- Ashley Solomon
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineApril 2010Disc of the month
April 2010
The sound is captivating - wholly unmannered, fresh-toned and inexhaustibly animated...Their commitment, enjoyment and communication is palpable...the music itself is totally absorbing from beginning to end.
May 2010
Florilegium plays some chamber instrumental works with customary finesse...The Bolivian singers demonstrate a warm choral sonority and soft solo singing...There isn't a dull moment during the disc's hour-long duration, and plenty of musical subtleties and novelties to intrigue the ear.
15th January 2010
a lively, nicely varied sequence, mostly of works showcasing Solomon's excellent Arakaender choir
27th February 2010
Florilegium [offer] multiple refreshments and discoveries. There are choral settings, gently joyful, with the fresh-voiced Arakaendar Bolivia Choir; well-behaved chamber pieces; and several solos on the one surviving missionary church organ, bracingly raw.