Mario Sarrechia; Lieselot De Wilde; Justin Glaie
Release Date: 25 March 2022
Label: Etcetera
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8711801017556
Genres: Classical Early Music
Description
Antwerp, around the middle of the 17th century.
Music issues from an imposing house on the Meir. Inside the house, paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Brueghel, Vermeer and Tintoretto hang everywhere.
A small but international group seated close to the fireplace is listening to a concert arranged especially for them. Francisca Duarte (1619-1678), who lives in the house, plays one of the many Ruckers-Couchet harpsichords and virginals owned by the Duarte family.
She has chosen the music carefully: there are works from old collections of manuscripts compiled for and by the Duarte family, including music by John Bull and arrangements of dances and songs, as well as new repertoire by harpsichord virtuosos.
The music on this CD is structured like a concert that Francisca Duarte might have given.
Although Francisca’s talent was exceptional, she was just one of many Antwerp citizens who could play the harpsichord well; competence on the harpsichord was an important part of the education of the daughters of the wealthy middle-class in the 16th and 17th centuries. Music created harmony in life, and its playing encouraged elegance.
Tracklisting
Bruno Monteiro, Joao Paulo Santos
Hendrickje Van Kerckhove, Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Severine Sierens, Hannelore Vermeir, Hans Ryckelynck,
Nuno Cernadas
Amy Norrington, Piet Kuijken
Herman Jeurissen, Ensemble Capricorno, Geerten van der Wetering
Currende, Erik van Vevel
Thomas Blondelle, Filip Rathe
Marco Mantovani
Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
Joanna Morska-Osinska
Il Giardino Armonico; LSO cond. Hamilton Harty
Ensemble Jerycho, Bartosz Izbicki
Klaus Haidl
The Viadana Collective, Maximilien Brisson
Sollazzo Ensemble, Anna Danilevskaia
Lina Tur Bonet, Musica Alchemica
