![]() Skidmore and Ex Cathedra fill this album with some of the most alive, infectious and uplifting Baroque polyphony I’ve ever heard. ‘The boundaries of old Europe’s cultural reach were notably blurred in Latin America, not least exposing missionaries to indigenous musical traditions. Skidmore has mined a rich vein of hitherto undiscovered music in libraries and churches of South America, and devised a dramatic Vespers service…Ex Cathedra more exhilaratingly uninhibited than I’ve heard them before…a most impressive disc.’ ( BBC Music Magazine – Disc of the Month) ![]() ‘This is a heady mix of gloriously rich polyphony and manic, earthy villancicos. With this in your ears, rush to the shops and buy a copy. It ends with this haunting recessional Dulce Jesús mío by an anonymous composer. The CD opens with the mesmeric Hanacpachap cussicuinin from Lima. But they can also move us with their performances of the quietly reflective local processional music. They can swing with infectious rhythms of the secular villancicos where both the singers and the instrumentalists teeter on the brink of breaking into dance with whoops, tambourines and other Latin effects. They can give terrific zest to the antiphony where short phrases are lobbed from one choir to another. ![]() They can be grand when grandness is required, as in the Latin psalms settings. ‘My last CD gave me unalloyed pleasure…Not only are the performances outstanding, but the range of music is also fascinating and varied… Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra are the masters of every style on this superb CD. Moon, Sun and All Things reveals more hidden treasures from 17th century Latin America, with works by Capillas, Fernandes, Franco, Araujo, Zipoli, Sumaya and Hernández sung in Spanish, Latin and the languages of the Aztecs and the Incas. Singers, harps, lutes, violins, cornetts and sackbuts revel in colourful music from the jungles and cathedrals of 17th and 18th century Bolivia, Mexico and Peru. ![]()
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