The Ahrend & Brunzema organ
Heirich Scheidemann, Anthoni van Noordt, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Samuel Scheidt
The Ahrend & Brunzema organ
The connections between the Netherlands and Italy are most easily illustrated.
Dutch musicians had a long tradtion of travel to the south, and during the whole seventeenth century the latest editions from Venice or Bologna would readily be available in Amsterdam.
And, if only during the few decades of Sweelinck’s teaching, it was throguh Amsterdam that the german organ school received decisive influences from the south.
The present CD can be seen in the light of these relations between north and south.
The music is writeen by composers from the north, who were all influenced by the south.
But the interplay of lines is more complex, and more interesting than that.
We hear Gustav Leonhardt, a mature master who, he himself a Dutchman, was one of the first in Europe to rediscover the music of Frescobaldi and his contemporaries.
Next to him plays Matteo Imbruno, a young Italian, who was attracted to the Netherlands at a very early age and to that very Dutch profession of organist.
The organ they play is an important reconstruction of a historic organ, itself the product of the mature Dutch school of organ building, in which many European lines converge.
The music of this recording centers around Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, his pupils, and the Oude Kerk, the church where Sweelinck played for more than forty years.
Tracklist
Scheidemann, Heinrich
Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn, WV 7
Noordt, Anthoni van
Tablatuur-boeck van psalmen en fantasyen*
Scheidemann, Heinrich
Toccata in G Major, WV 43
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
Toccata In C Major
Ballo del granduca, SwWV 319
Echo fantasia in Aeolian mode, SwWV 275
Anonymous
Daphne
Scheidt, Samuel
Bergamasca, SSWV 560
Anonymous
3 Variations on Psalm 23 [Netherlands, 17th century]
Scheidemann, Heinrich
Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott, WV 87
Surrexit pastor bonus (after Lassus), WV 10
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