Jeffrey Skidmore, Ex Cathedra - Brazilian Adventures (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 466 Mb | Total time: 77:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68114 | Recorded: 2014
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 466 Mb | Total time: 77:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68114 | Recorded: 2014
The title Brazilian Adventures here isn't ideal: it refers more to the process by which the music was assembled than to the exclusively sacred compositions performed. But conductor Jeffrey Skidmore indeed had at least an intellectual adventure, visiting various Brazilian cities and consulting with local experts on unknown compositions from colonial Brazil that they had unearthed in their cities' archives. For his initiative in the rediscovery of completely unknown repertory Skidmore deserves major kudos: the space between the Renaissance and the late 19th century is an almost complete lacuna in the recorded repertory, at least outside Brazil.