AAM explores South American connections

The AAM has just completed concerts in Cambridge and London exploring the connections between the baroque music of South America and Europe.

Curated and directed by AAM leader Rodolfo Richter, the programme featured music from the Old and New Worlds, including a piece by Brazilian Jose Joaquim Lobo de Mesquita which has been recovered from a private collection in which it has languished for centuries. But it was a Brazilian Cachua which stole the limelight — a folk tune which formed the centre of a semi-improvised jamming session.

The work written in South America was put into the context of its European inspiration, and in the second half of the concert Colombian soprano Juanita Lascarro starred in Handel’s Il Delirio Amoroso.