Though only with generosity could the singing here be called even so-so, this disc gives an illuminating insight into the little-known music of eighteenth-century colonial Brazil. Much the most intersting items are by the mulato Nunes Garcia, whose prolfic output is represented by an antiphon and a gradual in Haydnesque style an two well-played non-operatic overtures, that in D a sparkling Rossinian piece that was well worth resuscitating. '