Ex Cathedra - Moon, sun & all things (CD)

Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore

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Chorwerke von Anonymus, Araujo, Sumaya, Hernandez, Capillas, Franco, Zipoli, Salazar, Padilla

Artists:: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore
Label:: Hyperion
Year of recording ca.:: 2004
Item number:: 6923906
UPC/EAN:: 0034571175249
Release date:: 1.9.2005

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Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey Skidmore unearth more fascinating treasures with this latest anthology of Latin American music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The first volume – ‘New World Symphonies’, released in 2003 on compact disc CDA67380 – has been hugely popular, getting regular airplay on Classic fM. The works on this disc were chosen from the vast amount of extraordinary repertoire Jeffrey Skidmore discovered on research visits to the USA, Mexico and Bolivia. Hanacpachap cussicuinin is a piece still widely performed throughout Latin America, its steady, processional drumming creating a haunting and seductive atmosphere. It is set for four voices in Sapphic verse in the Quechua language. The colourful imagery of the sequence of prayers skilfully mixes Inca and Christian imagery, with its references to stores of silver and gold, life without end, deceitful jaguars and sins of the devil.

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'Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra turn the dead contents of dusty archives into a thrilling programme … one of the finest albums of early baroque music to grace its catalogue' (Music Week)

'A fascinating re-creation' (The Guardian)

'This second collection from Jeffrey Skidmore fizzes with excitement and energy and is every bit as engrossing as his first' (The Independent)

'Here is a truly wonderful disc, by reason of the splendours of the works chosen and the superbly controlled enthusiasm and skill of the performers … an absolute winner' (International Record Review)