Compiled by our Classical Music desk.
In September we gave a series of wonderful concerts to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Concertzender. Today and tomorrow, we will broadcast a wide selection from these concerts.
In today’s programme we will listen to two concerts of early music, from the programme at festival Muze van Zuid. The first concert is stacked with renaissance polyphony: breathtakingly beautiful multivoiced sacred music compositions. A mass of Orlando di Lasso forms the focal point, followed by penitential psalms by, for instance, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. The concert took place in the aptly named Obrecht church, named after another renaissance composer, Jacob Obrecht.
Our second concert took place in the Vondel church in Amsterdam, named after one of the most famous Dutch playwrights and writers from the 16th century. It provided an excellent stage for the songs from the Dutch Golden Age, which the music company Camerata Trajectina has been discovering, reconstructing and performing for several decades now. The company was founded by musicologist Louis Grijp, who wanted the songs he studied to be brought to life again. The company’s work hasn’t only resulted in many CDs, but also restored a repertoire that hadn’t been performed for hundreds of years. In this concert we hear the Camerata perform repertoire from many different centuries (among which the seventeenth century), and as a gesture to the audience, they included the not so obscure but very well-known songs from Adrian Valerius.
Playlist
1. Orlando di Lasso – Kyrie (from Missa doulce memoire)
2. Josquin Desprez – Domine in furore
3. Orlando di Lasso – Gloria (from Missa doulce memoire)
4. Jan Pietersz. Sweelinck – Miserere mei Deus
5. Antonio Lotti – Miserere mei
6. Orlando di Lasso – Credo (from Missa doulce memoire)
7. Jan Pietersz. Sweelinck – Domine exaudi orationem meam
8. Orlando di Lasso – Sanctus (from Missa doulce memoire)
9. Lupus Hellinck – De profundis
10. Orlando di Lasso – Agnus Dei (from Missa doulce memoire?)
11. Egil Hovland – Agnus Dei
12. Mijn lief van enen en nullen
13. Ach Amaryllis tutti
14. Den droevighen vrijer
15. Hoe craeghtigh ick verpyn
16. a reading
17. Wanneer de zon achter de wolken schuift
18. Demeter zoekt
19. Galathea siet den dagh comt aen
20. Rosemont, hoordij mij spreken noch singen
21. Klaere, wat heeft er uw hartje verlept
22. Dartelavond
23. Egidius waer bestu bleven
24. Merckt toch hoe sterck
25. O mensch denct dat ghy toch syt sterflyc
26. Heere keere van ons af
27. O Nederland let op u saeck
28. voordracht
29. Laat het zwaard verroesten
30. Variaties over Repicavan
