Brazil has some of the largest archives of music from the colonial period in the Americas. Thousands of churches performed live music every week and the court of Rio de Janeiro also had a very active musical scene. Fiesta presents rarely heard Brazilian musical treasures.
Colonial Music from Brazil
Our Lady of the Conception Church, Urussanga, Brazil (Photo: Mateus Campos Felipe)
Playlist
Novena de Nossa Senhora do Pilar, by Francisco Gomes da Rocha
Bênçao das Cinzas e Missa para a Quarta-feira de Cinzas, by Emerico Lobo de Mesquita
Vox Brasiliensis; Ricardo Kanji, conductor
Missa a 8 vozes e instrumentos, by Silva Gomes
Elizabeth Drury (soprano), Martha McLorinan (alto), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Katie Trethewey (soprano), Edward McMullan (counter-tenor), Greg Skidmore (bass), Nick Ashby (bass); Ex Cathedra; Jeffrey Skidmore, conductor
