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Brazilian Adventures (Jeffrey Skidmore- Ex Cathedra)
Brazilian Sacred Music by:Jose Mauricio Nunci Garcia (1767-1830)Jose Joachim Emercio Lobo de Mesquita (1746-1805)Andre da Silva Gomes (1752-1844)Juis Alvares Pinto (1719-1789)Theodoro Cyro de Souza (1752-1844)Jeffrey Skidmore- Ex Cathedra(Period Instruments)Hyperion CDA68114 (2015) [Flac & Scans]
2015-10-29 19:45:06
Ex Cathedra/Skidmore (Hyperion)Ex Cathedra conductor Jeffrey Skidmore has gathered late 17th to early 19th century choral music from five Brazilian cities for this disc, and they make for some really worthwhile discoveries. Most memorable is the Missa Pastoril Para a Noite de Natal by José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, which would have sounded uplifting drifting out from a grand Rio de Janeiro church into a humid Christmas Eve night in 1811. The recurring clarinet theme is something of which Mozart might have been proud. From São Paulo there is the Missa a 8 Vozes e Instrumentos by André da Silva Gomes, with its spirited Gloria and ebullient solo strings. Like everything here, it is sung cleanly and played elegantly by Ex Cathedra. One could almost be in Vienna or Salzburg, but two versions of a vernacular song, all “ai, le, le” refrain and dancing drum accompaniment, remind us that we’re a long, […]
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