Seldom Sene & Matthias Havinga – Concerto Barocco (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:17 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Masterpieces of the Baroque concerto as you’ve never heard them before! Baroque concertos are very attractive to adapt because of their virtuosity and expressiveness. In Seldom Sene’s new album, this repertoire is brought to life with the added colours of harpsichord and organ. The challenge was to create a wide variety of sounds through the intelligent use of different types of recorders and the stops of both keyboard instruments.
Read moreKlaartje van Veldhoven, Matthias Havinga – Miroir de Peine by Andriessen, Badings, Wertheim and Van Lier (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:45 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Brilliant Classics
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Various Composers
Several world-premiere recordings complementing a powerful sacred song-cycle by Hendrik Andriessen.
In Miroir de Peine, five stages of the Agony of Christ are viewed from the perspective of Mary, mother of Jesus. Composed in 1923, Hendrik Andriessen’s settings of poems by Henri Ghéon eschew both Romantic and modernist tropes of the time in favour of a meditative consideration of intimate, mystical simplicity. This quality is shared by his later setting of a Paul Claudel text, La Sainte Face.
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