Van Eyck: Pleasure Garden
Label: Eloquentia Catalog: EL1126 Format: CD Johannette Zomer, soprano; Mathieu Dupouis, harp; virginal. Giovanna Pessi, harp; Consort de Violes; Luis Beduschi, conductor & recorderJacob van Eyck When you pick up a modern edition of Jacob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof, a work from the mid-seventeenth century, you see a blizzard of notes for solo recorder, going on for hundreds of pages, and divided among what for most of us are a slew of incomprehensible Dutch titles. When you hear Van Eyck's music live or recorded, that is usually what you hear too: several minutes of solo recorder, accelerating relentlessly. Frans Bruggen's brilliant 1960s performances of a half-dozen "greatest hits" set the pattern for a generation: intense, soulful - and solo. Price: $26.98 |