Eagles and Seven Tears Bassano Quartet & Daniël Brüggen

• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Flute Quartet in D Major op. 5 no. 1:
• 1Flute Quartet in D Major op. 5 no. 1 - Presto assai03:00
• 2Flute Quartet in D Major op. 5 no. 1 - Adagio07:18
• 3Flute Quartet in D Major op. 5 no. 1 - Presto02:23
• Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Fantasia 1:
• 4Fantasia 1103:29
• John Dowland (1563 - 1626): Lachrimae or Seaven Teares (1604):
• 5Pavan Lachrimae Antiquae04:17
• 6Pavan Lachrimae Antiquae Nova03:53
• 7Pavan Lachrimae Gementes04:21
• 8Pavan Lachrimae Tristes04:09
• 9Pavan Lachrimae Coactae04:23
• 10Pavan Lachrimae Amantis05:08
• 11Pavan Lachrimae Verae04:07
• John Taverner (1490 - 1545): In Nomine:
• 12In Nomine02:22
• Joseph Lupo (1537 - ?): Pavan:
• 13Pavan03:06
• Ronald Moelker (1956-): Koraal 1, Westerbork 1943:
• 14Koraal 1, Westerbork 194304:51
• Arvo Pärt (1935-): Da pacem Domine:
• 15Da pacem Domine03:31
• Bob Mintzer (1953-): Slowly from Quartet 1:
• 16Slowly from Quartet 103:49
• Jacopo da Bologna (1340-c.1386): Aquila Altera:
• 17Aquila Altera03:47
• Total Runtime01:07:54

Info for Eagles and Seven Tears

After the successful first CD ‘Torres del Alma’ with quartets from the Spanish Renaissance, the idea arose to create a second CD with new music and arrangements for the Eagle recorder and a unique performance of the ‘Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares’ of John Dowland with guest musician Daniël Brüggen. With this recording we aim to explore the extremes of the recorder quartet sound and forge new paths. Along with the medieval Aquila altera, the classical ute quartets of Haydn happen to sound excellent on a modern Eagle recorder. I arranged a saxophone quartet by Bob Mintzer and wrote a Chorale for two Eagle altos, a tenor and a bass.

Koraal 1 is inspired by the poem ‘Westerbork 1943’ by Rudy Bremer (1936-2013). The music represents the slow power of a goods train filled with desperate people on their way to the Westerbork Concentration Camp. Rudy Bremer wrote the following about this experience: “One day they came and took me to a Jewish orphanage. My mother was sent to Poland, never to return. On the way she threw a letter out of the train: ‘Save my child’. Somehow it reached my aunt Fie and uncle Age”

Bassano Quartet
Daniël Brüggen, recorder

The Bassano Quartet
plays on historically built consort recorders with a length up to almost 3 meters (worlds largest recorder). These hand built instruments come from the workshop of Adriana Breukink. Her instruments are played by famous players and ensembles all over the world.

At the moment the ensemble is working on new arrangements for 2 Eagle recorders, dream tenor with b valve and dream bass with a steel labium for extra power and blending.

The quartet just played in the Early Music Festival in St. Petersburg (Russia) to present their new cd. ‘Torres del Alma - Towers of the Soul’ with highlights of Spanish music from the 15th century manuscript Cancionero Musical de Palacio, around the mystic saint Teresa de Ávila from the 16th century and the 17th century Catalan composer Joan Cabanilles.

Daniël Brüggen was born in Haarlem where he started playing the recorder at an early age. He has studied recorder at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Kees Boeke and graduated there as a soloist in 1983. During his conservatory studies he founded the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Recorder Quartet with three fellow students. This proved to be a unique combination of spirits with a great determination to develop the recorder. Three years later, after winning the Brugge Early Music competion in 1981, they conquered the Early Music World and beyond with their unusual repertoire and ensemble perfection. Later on the Recorder Quartet became an established and popular chamber music combination. With this celebrated ensemble he has travelled all over the world and made a variety of recordings for Decca, Channel Classics and NM Classics, two of them winning the prestigious Edison Award. As a soloist he performed with several Ensembles such as London Baroque and forms a duo with harpsichordist Siebe Henstra.

He is teaching at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and is a regular visitor of the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was appointed Honorary Associate. He has coached many recorder consorts as well as early music ensembles.

In recent years he has been increasingly active as a filmmaker and director, producing several classical music clips (a.o. Royal Wind Music, Zefiro, L’Armonia Sonora, 2010-12) instrumental portraits (Ricercata, 2011) and music documentaries (Sweelinck Fantasies, 2008, The Leiden Choirbooks, 2010). He is currently involved in a Tschaikowsky DVD project with the Utrecht String Quartet.

Booklet for Eagles and Seven Tears