What does music from an 18th century manuscript sound like? On their current CD "Festejo Peruano", the Bremen ensemble Los Temperamentos has recorded all the musical works of the famous Codex Martínez Compañón, thus bringing one of Latin America's most valuable cultural documents to new life.

The Codex Martínez Compañón was written in the 1780s in Trujillo, in the north of present day Peru. The manuscript contains musical material, drawings and written documents depicting the everyday life of the African slaves living there, the indigenous population and also the Spanish occupiers. The music that has been handed down shows the extraordinary coexistence and intermingling of different cultures and, incidentally, gives listeners of the 21st century the opportunity to get to know a completely different, unknown side of "early music" for once.

Since its foundation in 2009, Los Temperamentos has been an ensemble with a very individual character. The musicians focus on the music of the 17th and 18th centuries, which emerged from the connection between the different cultural areas of Europe and Latin America.

Tracklisting:
1. Cachuyta El Vuen Querer, E193/Tonada El Huicho, E189
2. Tonada El Conejo a voz, E183
3. Tonada del Chimo, E180
4. Adagio Tonada El Tuppamaro, E191/Tonada El Diamante, E187
5. Tonadilla El Palomo, E185
6. Bayle de Danzantes con pífano
7. Bayle del Chimo, E179
8. Cachua Niño Il Mijor/Cachua Dennos Lecencia
9. Tonada La Donosa, E182
10. Lanchas para Baylar, E186
11. Tonada La Selosa, E184
12. Tonada El Congo, E178
13. Cachua La Despedida, E191
14. Tonada La Brugita, E190
15. Cachua Serranita
16. Allegro Tonada el Tupamaro, E188
17. Tonada La Lata, E181