Imagined Roots

Published: June 26, 2023, 10:27 p.m.

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Ra\\xedces Imaginadas\\xa0(Imagined Roots) presents four works written by Tom\\xe1s Koljatic, Igor Marques, Felipe Pinto d\\u2019Aguiar, and Vicente Atria, performed by the Nuevo Mundo Baroque Orchestra (Chile). The idea was to frame writing for historical instruments in contemporary perspectives; its title alludes to this notion and suggests a music that is speculative, nonexistent, or historically and hypothetically possible, bound to the past by its instrumentation and timbre.

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Host Seth Boustead talks with the four composers about this fascinating project and features the music.

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