In 2004, the Prince Claus Fund supported a project, initiated by Association Pro Art and Culture in Bolivia, to revive 17th century Baroque music brought to Bolivia by Jesuit and Franciscan monks and sustained by the Indian population in the region of Moxos.
The Fund helped finance a CD of Bolivian singers accompanied by the British chamber ensemble Florilegium, as well as a concert tour of Europe. That CD was enthusiastically received and a commercial success. Now a follow-up recording, Bolivian Baroque Vol. 2, again with Florilegium and the Arkaendar Bolivian Choir, has been selected by James Inverne of the prestigious Gramaphone Magazine as “Editor’s Choice” of the “most outstanding new disc.”
Cover of Bolivian Baroque Vol. 2
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