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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: The Complete Vocal Works

Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam; Harry Van Der Kamp

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Format: 17CD

Cat No: GCD922411

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Release Date:  19 November 2021

Label:  Glossa

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  17

Barcode:  8424562224117

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

  • Description

    In the summer of 2009 Harry van der Kamp and his Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam finished, with the recording of the "Cantiones Sacrae", their epic journey through the complete vocal oeuvre of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

    All in all, a total of 17 CDs of music had been recorded.



    The project included the Complete Psalms (12 CDs), the Complete Secular Works (3 CDs) and the Cantiones Sacrae (2 CDs).



    Sweelinck, who was the organist at the Oude Kerk from the age of 15 until his death, carried out his musical activity at a time in which Catholicism had been supplanted by Calvinism. This development proved decisive in the composer basing his Magnum Opus – the composition of music for all the 150 Psalms – on the French texts of the Genevan Psalter, a metrical adaptation of the Biblical Psalms.



    On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Sweelinck's death, Glossa presents his complete vocal works in a box set for the first time.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. CD 1- 3: Secular Vocal Works - Chansons - Italian Rimes - Madrigals - French Rimes - Canons

      Disc 4

      • 1. CD 4: Cantiones Sacrae- 9 Psalm Motets - 9 Nativity Motets - 9 Gospel Motets

      Disc 5

      • 1. CD5: 9 Other Motets - Te Deum - Motets - Canons

      Disc 6

      • 1. CD6: First Book Of Psalms - Cinquante Pseaumes De David 1604

      Disc 7

      • 1. CD7-8: Premiere Livre Des Pseaumes De David 1624

      Disc 9

      • 1. CD9-11: Second Book Of Psalms - Livre Second Des Pseaumes De David 1613

      Disc 12

      • 1. CD12-14: Third Book Of Psalms - Livre Troisieme Des Psaumes De David 1614

      Disc 15

      • 1. CD15-17: Fourth Book Of Psalms - Livre Quatriesme Et Conclusionnal Des Psaulms De David 1621