Baroque Music in Latin America

Fascinating, a Polish Jesuit, Professor at the University in Poznan, Piotr Nawrot, seems to be doing the most important work for the re-discovery and preservation of Baroque music in Boliwia.

Instead of any comments this fascinating video tells the story:

CBS News: Searching for Baroque in Bolivia

Intrata, the beginning

It is almost half past one in the morning and I have just decided to publish my first ever blog. I think it is time to give way to some thoughts, to let them out of my head. It is the opening, ouverture, praeludium, intrata...

I am amazed by those few bars from Biagio Marini (20-23) that I have just played on my clavichord trying to put some missing figures. The passion of Italian baroque is overwhelming, the clashes create tension that touches the soul, wandering bass line opposes the static sureness of the right... only to resolve with a harmonious major chord.... I love this music, I love life that created it. I love life...