Conducted by Piotr Nawrot

Description

Vespers Music for Choir, Soloists, and Orchestra
Performed by the Cathedral Singers
Richard Proulx, Music Director
and
The Symphony of the Shores Chamber Players
Piotr Nawrot, Conductor

When the Spanish Jesuits brought their music and instruments to the New World, they joined with the highly talented Guarnani and Chiquito Indians to produce liturgical music which was, as Fr. Piotr Nawrot writes, "a luxuriant blend of Indian and European, indigenous and foreign, old and new."

Once heard only at Vespers in the 17th-century Jesuit Reductions of Bolivia, this fusion of baroque and native rhythms and melodies was brought to light in The Mission, a 1986 film starring Robert DeNiro. It is again brought to life in this stirring performance by the Cathedral Singers and the Symphony of the Shores Chamber Players.

Conductor Bio

Conductor Piotr Nawrot is a Polish priest. He has reconstructed 27 volumes of music from Bolivian mission towns.