The Huehuetenango Songbook

A Treasure In three remote Guatemalan mountain villages, a collection of small-format choirbooks has been preserved and guarded as a treasure for centuries. Tenor Jonatan Alvarado and vihuela player Ariel Abramovich leafed through the folios of the Huehuetenango manuscripts and selected masses, motets, chansons and villancicos from the more than 350 works recorded between 1582 and 1635. The recording provides insight into the intercontinental exchange of music between Europe and the missions in Central America on the eve of the Baroque.