Searching For Baroque In Bolivia

A Musical Journey Into Religions' Past

(CBS)  Today Baroque music is being reborn in music schools across the jungles of Bolivia.

Last spring, 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon met Polish priest and musicologist Piotr Nawrot, who took him on an incredible journey. For hundreds of years people have been traversing the rivers in the Amazon. When the Jesuits came to Bolivia in the 1670s their journeys took them to an exotic, steaming and vast new world.

Piotr Nawrot has been searching for the remnants of musical manuscripts which he was convinced were hidden by the Indians after the Jesuits were expelled from Latin America 300 years ago.

The Jesuits used the Baroque music that Bach and Vivaldi were composing and that Europeans were listening to at the time to help covert the natives.

Watch video of the segment here.

[jackyg-2009]

I'm the Administrator of Florilegium, and the recordings are available on the Channel Classics label. Volume 1, which featured 4 Bolivian soloists with Florilegium: Bolivian Baroque -Missions of Chiquitos and Moxos Indians (CD & DVD) CCS22105 (Awarded Editor%u2019s Choice,Gramophone UK (July 2005)
Volume 2, featuring the choir on this film, with Florilegium: Bolivian Baroque - Music from the Missions and La Plata Vol 2 CCS 24806
(Awarded Editor%u2019s Choice, Gramophone UK (March 2006)
If anyone has problem finding them please see Florilegium website www.florilegium.org.uk

[p-md]

Did not make it easy to find the CD. There are in fact 2 CDs, i.e. I & II and they can be obtained from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. website: bolchazy.com. The other information follows:
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[klimi]

Here is one collection:
El gran barroco de Bolivia
Coro Exaudi de La Habana y solistas instrumentales
Direccisn, Marma Felicia Pirez
Editor: Jade, 2000
CD
Series: Programa Repsol YPF para la Mzsica. de Latinoamirica
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Available at http://www.amazon.co.uk

[svdmissions]

Divine Word Missionaries
1835 Waukegan Road, Techny, IL. 60082
www.svdmissions.org/baroque
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[carmelita--2008]

The music of Fr. Piotr Nawrot SVD can be ordered through Divine Word Missionaries at www.svdmissions.org or by calling 800-275-0626.

[neil_clark]

I "did the google" for the Friar's name + baroque, and found the following (there were no retail `hits' buy the music directly from the Missionaries:

Baroque Music from the Bolivian Rainforest

Piotr Nawrot , Conductor

This remarkable recording, like Mexican Baroque, produced in 1994 by Chanticleer, reflects the remarkable results of the commingling of research and performance. Fr. Piotr Nawrot, D. M. A., presents on this recording not only beautifully illuminating performances, but also music that for most of us will be completely new. His reconstruction of Vespers music for Choir, Soloists and Chamber Orchestra brings together 19 numbers . They were published in score and parts by Fr. Nawrot as Mzsica de vmsperas en las reducciones de Chiquitos--Boliva (1691-1767), 1994, Archivo Musical Chiquitos, Concepcisn, Bolivia, i-xxxii,1-334, 4 instrumental parts. [The score, parts and this recording can be obtained by writing the Divine Word Missionaries, P. O. Box 6039, Techny, IL 60082-6009, or by telephone: [phone].]

[suejohnson48]

Okay, I really enjoyed Baroque in Bolivia. Is there published music? A CD? Where can I buy it?
Thanks,
sue