Composer: Frans Brüggen, Louis Andriessen, Josquin Despres, Thomas Preston, Jean Philippe Rameau
Performer: Cappella Amsterdam
Orchestra: Orchestra of the 18th Century
Conductor: Daniel Reuss
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5187389
Release: 2024
Size: 236 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Josquin: Nymphes Des Bois
02. Andriessen: George Sand: Un beau baiser
03. Andriessen: Sweet
04. Andriessen: Remembering that Sarabande
05. Preston: Upon La Mi Re
06. Andriessen: Ahania weeping
Andriessen: May
07. Part I
08. Part II
Rameau: Les Boréades, RCT 31
09. Act IV Scene 4: Entrée d’Abaris
Tales of song of sadness is a double tribute from the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Cappella Amsterdam, commemorating the demise of Frans Bruggen and Louis Andriessen, two giants of Dutch music culture. The album also documents the unique entanglement of early and contemporary music pioneers in post-war Netherlands, whose influence stretched far beyond national borders. Centrepiece of this programme is Andriessen’s May, commissioned to commemorate the death of Bruggen, eventually turning out to be that composer’s swan song as well. It is flanked by other Andriessen works for choir, orchestra and recorder, respectively, as well as excurses into early music by Josquin des Prez, Thomas Preston, Jacob van Eyck and Jean-Philippe Rameau. Cappella Amsterdam and Daniel Reuss have released In Umbra Mortis (Rihm & de Wert, 2021, awarded with an Edison Klassiek Award), David Lang’s the writings (2022) and Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance (2023) on PENTATONE. The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Sour Cream and Frans Bruggen (posthumously) make their PENTATONE debut.