Spanish and Latin-American baroque music from the 17th and 18th
century The songbook from El Dorado is a dramatic musical story
about an universal conflict symbolized by an idealistic Jesuit
dream of creating Paradise on earth in the South American jungle
- and the resistance they were bound to encounter from
unscrupulous contractors of the Old World, to whom an earthly
paradise could only be built of gold! The world is in color Now
reality is, as we all know, not exclusively black and white.
Sometimes even war and oppression, as a side effect,
unintendedly create a fertile soil for rich musical traditions.
The world is certainly in color and the baroque music from Latin
America, formed by this special mixture of local and European
musical traditions, is an extremely colorful palette of sounds
and rhythms unobtainable in any other place. The music of the
conquistadors was, as a matter of fact, already a compound
phenomenon, long before it was brought to The New World. Shaped
through centuries by Oriental trad