Barocco Locco - Spaerens Vreughden-Bron, Haarlem - City of Music in the Golden Age (2016) [DSD & Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Intrada
02. prima pars
03. secunda pars, Que nunc flagitant
04. tertia pars, Nobis concedas
05. Hymnus in honorem St. Bavonis
06. Voorspel
07. Weest welkom
08. Geluck-wenschinge
09. Geeft Heer
10. Synphonia in nuptias 1642 Pavana
11. Gaillarde
12. Dat ick betovert ben Eerste deel
13. Dat ick betovert ben Tweede deel, Const heeft het my gedaen
14. Dat ick betovert ben Derde deel, Blondt hayr
15. Dat ick betovert ben Vierde deel, Maer boven al
16. Corente
17. Lanx de Secundi - Dit is het vaers soo ‘t ghesneden is in de schaal
18. Dat altijd dese Schael - Inschrifte des zilv’ren schaels
19. Capricie
20. Omnia sunt hominum
21. Me veux tu voir mourir
22. Orpheus Ban
23. prima pars
24. secunda pars, O Triste Spectaculum
25. Synphonia in nuptias 1641 Pavana
26. Synphonia in nuptias 1641 Gaillarde
27. Cantate Domino canticum novum
28. Sonata a Cimbalo Solo
29. Da Pacem - Ecce quam bonum


The glorious epithet ‘Golden Age’, describing the seventeenth century in the Netherlands, and the Northern Netherlands in particular, says much about the preceding century too. For it was in the second half of that century that the gradual transition took place from the Renaissance to the early Baroque, and in many respects it was there that the roots of the ‘golden’ characteristics lay. The exuberance of the Baroque, however, was of relatively limited influence, since it hardly appealed to the sobriety of the increasingly Calvinist population. This was the background to the political and military stage of the Eighty Years’ War, which was to end with the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in Münster in 1648 and the formal independance of the Republic of the United Provinces. The discovery of new continents made a significant contribution to unprecedented economic growth. The Republic of the United Provinces became the indisputed economic centre of Europe, with trade links and possessions in no less than four continents and a merchant fleet that surpassed the combined fleets of England and France. In the ideological world, humanism, fired by the writings of Desiderius Erasmus, became a force to be reckoned with. In religious matters, the sixteenth century witnessed perhaps the greatest upheavals, with the emergence of Protestantism during the Reformation and the first effects of the Counter Reformation around 1560. If it were not for spectacular developments in the cultural world, to which the seventeenth century owed its honorary title, scholarship, literature, poetry, painting, engraving and music would not have attained such stupendous heights.

Barocco Locco
Fritz Heller, direction
Schola Cantorum Kennemerland
Ko Ariëns, direction

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