Credits:

Nestor Fabian Cortes Garson, Los Temperamentos

Description:

A fusion of Baroque and South American music. Los Temperamentos records works from the Peruvian “Codex del Trujillo”! Los Temperamentos, whose repertoire is centered on Latin American Baroque music, has recorded festive music from the Peruvian “Codex del Trujillo,” directed by Nestor Fabian Cortez Garzn. Compiled in the 1780s by Baltasar Martinez Compan, bishop of Trujillo, a large city in what is now northern Peru, the Codex contains musical material, drawings, and documents depicting the daily lives of African slaves, indigenous peoples, and Spanish occupiers who lived in the area. The music is full of fascinating rhythms and energies, a unique world born of the different cultures of Europe and Latin America. King International