Cyril Auvity; Marie Van Rhijn; Myriam Rignol
Description
The surviving musical edition of Dutch Golden Age “Renaissance Man�, Constantijn Huygens, receives a fresh new recording – issued on Glossa –from a singer who has become a connoisseur of vocal music from the seventeenth century: Cyril Auvity.
The remarkable Huygens, alive for much of that century, was a poet, composer and musician whose “day job� was as a diplomat working for the Princes of Orange and who was an assiduous correspondent with leading thinkers such as Descartes, Rubens and Corneille.
Huygens 'Pathodia sacra et profana' encompasses a collection of songs in Italian, French and Latin whose simplicity belies the complexity of the emotions carried within them.
Those emotions are admirably conveyed by a singer whose inquisitive musical intellect takes him down less frequented paths (such as two previously issued Charpentier albums on Glossa), and whose voice is rich and coloured and employed with a mastery of line. Singer and instrumentalists on this new recording have decided to record all the French airs from the Pathodia as well as an extensive selection of the Italian aria and Latin-texted Psalm settings.
Reflecting the contemporary performances of such works by wealthy amateurs in the Dutch Republic, Myriam Rignol plays viola da gamba whilst Marie van Rhijn plays harpsichord, positive organ and the enigmatic Lautenwerck (a lute-harpsichord). Each of these instruments is additionally given an opportunity to be heard in solo music from Huygens’ time.
Tracklisting
Lina Tur Bonet, Musica Alchemica
Eduardo Eguez, La Compagnia del Madgriale
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Bruggen
Le Concert Spirituel; Herve Niquet
Graindelavoix; Bjorn Schmelzer; Manuel Mota
Jose Maria Lo Monaco; Stefano Aresi; Stile Galante
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Hans-Christoph Rademann, NDR Chor Hamburg
Chorwerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
