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The Royal Wind Music - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: The Orpheus of Amsterdam (2024)

The Royal Wind Music - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: The Orpheus of Amsterdam (2024)
  • Title: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: The Orpheus of Amsterdam
  • Year Of Release: 2024
  • Label: Pan Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 00:59:42
  • Total Size: 235 mb
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Tracklist

01. Variations on Ballo del Granduca, SwWV 319
02. Motet Ab oriente venerunt magi, SwWV 153
03. Fantasy Dans voor Orpheus van Amsterdam (2021)
04. Chanson Yeux, qui guidez mon âme, SwWV 231
05. Fantasy Fantasia G3 »Fuga 7. toni«, SwWV 268
06. Variations on Onder een linde groen, SwWV 325
07. Group improvisation Kettingreactie
08. Chanson Marchans qui traversez tout le rivage More, SwWV 224
09. Fantasy Fantasia a3 »Echo«, SwWV 275
10. Variations on Malle Sijmen, SwWV 323
11. Motet Pseaume 77, SwWV 77
12. Fantasia d1 »Crommatica«, SwWV 258
13. Variations on Onder de linde groene

If there is one name in the history of music in the northern Netherlands that is etched in the collective memory, it is undoubtedly that of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - a composer of impressive vocal and instrumental works of exceptionally high quality.

He is celebrated as the "Orpheus of Amsterdam", as he was organist of the Oude Kerk between 1577 and 1621, and the Amsterdam city council knew how to patronise the popular musician in their city and help him to prosper. Sweelinck's vocal works were widely distributed thanks to the fourishing publishing industry, but his organ works also had a great infuence on the North German organ school, right up to Johann Sebastian Bach.

The Royal Wind Music is a fute consort of Renaissance recorders of all pitches, from soprano down to sub-contrabass fute. The ensemble is often compared to a "walking organ" because of its even and polyphonic sound possibilities.

In their choice of four programme sections, the musicians contrast a vocal work and an organ work by Sweelinck with variation pieces by Sweelinck himself or two new compositions written especially for this programme and the ensemble. Orpheus' voice thus resounds in a wonderfully cohesive sound, sometimes interrupted by the echo of new soundscapes.

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