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Lucy Duran visits Bolivia, where she enjoys the famed Baroque music of Chiquitos. And in La Paz, she meets celebrated charango player Ernesto Cavour.

Throughout March, as part of Baroque Spring, Lucy Duran visits South America. This week, she's in Bolivia where she enjoys the famed Baroque music of Chiquitos. Plus, fighting for breath in the world's highest capital city, she meets the celebrated charango player Ernesto Cavour in La Paz. Producer James Parkin.

World Routes gets to the heart of Latin American Baroque in two of the continent's most musical nations. The programme makes exclusive recordings of music and musicians that date from the Baroque period, as well as other traditions that date from before or after the 16th and 17th Centuries.
After an extensive review of music-making in Paraguay, World Routes devotes the last two programmes in March to Bolivia. This week Lucy records the diverse sounds of the lowland areas which have become famous for the Baroque music of the Jesuit missions. Next week she enjoys the traditional panpipes of Lake Titicaca at around 4000m above sea level, and further down the mountain, there's the Andean sounds of Bolivia's most celebrated group: Los Masis. They're based very close to the spot in Sucre where Simon Bolivar declared independence for the continent.

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Sun 24 Mar 2013 22:00

Music Played

  • Destucamento Chuquisaca

    Toro y toro

    Composer: Traditional

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in Sucre, Bolivia.
    • 4th January 2013.
  • Kisimba

    Kavemi

    Composer: Traditional (arr. Kisimba)

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
    • 29th December 2012.
  • Kisimba

    Naporai Guaryu

    Composer: Traditional (arr. Kisimba)

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
    • 29th December 2012.
  • Kisimba

    Awachiwayi

    Composer: Traditional (arr. Kisimba)

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
    • 29th December 2012.
  • Tamborita de Pachau

    Maria Boca

    Composer: Traditional (arr. Tamborita de Pachau)

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in San Jose de Chiquitos, Bolivia.
    • 30th December 2012.
  • Orquesta Misional de San Jose de Chiquitos

    Sonata no.4 (No. 264 from the musical arvhives of Chiquitos)

    Composer: anon Performers: conducted by Antoine du Hamel

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in San Jose de Chiquitos, Bolivia.
    • 30th December 2012.
  • Orquesta Misional de San Jose de Chiquitos

    First Movt from Cantabile (No. 238b from the musical archives of Chiquitos)

    Composer: anon Performers: conducted by Antoine du Hamel

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in San Jose de Chiquitos, Bolivia.
    • 30th December 2012.
  • Orquesta Misional de San Jose de Chiquitos

    Maraca Mateo

    Composer: Gilberto Rojas (arr. Arturo Molina) Performers: conducted by Antoine du Hamel

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in San Jose de Chiquitos, Bolivia.
    • 30th December 2012.
  • Ernesto Cavour

    De las montanas a las selvas

    Composer: Ernesto Cavour

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in La Paz, Bolivia.
    • 1st January 2013.
  • Ernesto Cavour

    Charango Chara Chachacha

    Composer: Ernesto Cavour

    • 大象传媒 Recording made in La Paz, Bolivia.
    • 1st January 2013.

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 Mar 2013 22:00

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