El Mundo/Richard Salvino - Archivo de Guatemala

The Guardian 0

(Naxos)
This thoughtful collection of compositions from the Cathedral of Guatemala City archives reimagines a wealth of music made in colonial Latin America

Over the last two decades or so the wealth of music that was composed from the 16th century onwards in colonial Latin America has been systematically investigated and performed again. Much of it has been unearthed in cathedrals and missions across Central and South America. Jesuit archives in Bolivia, for instance, were the source for three fascinating discs from Florilegium, and recordings of collections from Ecuador and Brazil have also been released. This disc by the baroque group El Mundo and its director, guitarist Richard Salvino, shifts the focus further north, to what was found in the archives of the cathedral in Guatemala City.