Camerata Trajectina
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Camerata Trajectina is a Dutch early music
ensemble.
The ensemble was founded in Utrecht
(hence Latin trajectina; of Utrecht) in 1974 by Jos van Veldhoven
and Jan Nuchelmans. Following the departure of Veldhoven in 1976 to lead the Utrechts Barok Consort, leadership of the ensemble passed to the current director, the musicologist Louis Peter Grijp (b.1954).
The ensemble has specialised in recovering and sometimes reconstructing Dutch vocal music from the Dutch Golden Age
, and much of its discography are of Dutch-language songs which have not been recorded. The ensemble has particularly concentrated on domestic, middle-class, and Dutch-language church music which - unlike the Latin language church music of the Spanish Netherlands is little known and little researched. The lyrics of the recovered songs often illustrate cultural history, as in the case of the ensembles two recordings of Dutch sea shanties
.
They have cooperated twice with poet Gerrit Komrij
; the first time in reconstruction of Obrecht
's secular works. The original texts to Obrecht's Dutch songs had been lost, leaving only Dutch incipits as titles of instrumental versions. Komrij wrote new texts in the style of lyrics of Obrecht's time. A second project based on The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
of Hieronymus Bosch set new Dutch texts to 16th Century melodies.
With books
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
ensemble.
The ensemble was founded in Utrecht
Utrecht
Utrecht is a city in the Netherlands.The name may also refer to:* Utrecht , of which Utrecht is the capital* Utrecht , including the city of Utrecht* Bishopric of Utrecht* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht...
(hence Latin trajectina; of Utrecht) in 1974 by Jos van Veldhoven
Jos van Veldhoven
Jos van Veldhoven is a Dutch choral conductor. He studied musicology at the Rijksuniversiteit of Utrecht, and choral and orchestral conducting at the Royal Conservatory, the Hague. He has been artistic director of De Nederlandse Bachvereniging since 1983...
and Jan Nuchelmans. Following the departure of Veldhoven in 1976 to lead the Utrechts Barok Consort, leadership of the ensemble passed to the current director, the musicologist Louis Peter Grijp (b.1954).
The ensemble has specialised in recovering and sometimes reconstructing Dutch vocal music from the Dutch Golden Age
Dutch Golden Age
The Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...
, and much of its discography are of Dutch-language songs which have not been recorded. The ensemble has particularly concentrated on domestic, middle-class, and Dutch-language church music which - unlike the Latin language church music of the Spanish Netherlands is little known and little researched. The lyrics of the recovered songs often illustrate cultural history, as in the case of the ensembles two recordings of Dutch sea shanties
Sea Shanties
Sea Shanties is the debut album of Progressive Rock band High Tide. The cover artwork was drawn by Paul Whitehead.-Production:Denny Gerrard produced Sea Shanties in return for High Tide acting as the backing band on his solo album Sinister Morning...
.
They have cooperated twice with poet Gerrit Komrij
Gerrit Komrij
Gerrit Jan Komrij is a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands .-Biography:...
; the first time in reconstruction of Obrecht
Obrecht
Obrecht is the name of:* Jacob Obrecht , Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance* Hermann Obrecht , Swiss politician...
's secular works. The original texts to Obrecht's Dutch songs had been lost, leaving only Dutch incipits as titles of instrumental versions. Komrij wrote new texts in the style of lyrics of Obrecht's time. A second project based on The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things is a painting attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, completed around 1500 or later. The painting is oil on wood panels...
of Hieronymus Bosch set new Dutch texts to 16th Century melodies.
Selected publications and discography
- Muziek uit de Gouden Eeuw - Music of the Golden Age. LP 1986 and 1987, CD 1992(GLO 6013)
- Pacxken van minnen – Middeleeuwse muziek uit de Nederlanden - medieval Dutch music. 1992 (GLO 6016)
- SouterliedekensSouterliedekensThe Souterliedekens is a Dutch metrical psalter, published in 1540 in Antwerp, and which remained very popular throughout the century. The metrical rhyming psalms were - probably - arranged by a Utrecht nobleman: Willem van Zuylen van Nijevelt . For the melodies he used folksongs from the Low...
1540 – Clemens non Papa. 1994 (Globe 6020) - Muziek uit de MuiderkringMuiderkringIn the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, roughly equivalent to the later half of the 17th century, the Muiderkring was the name given to a group of figures in the arts and sciences who regularly met at the castle of Muiden near Amsterdam...
- Music of the MuidenMuidenMuiden is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It lies at the mouth of the Vecht and is in an area called the Vechtstreek.-Population centres :...
Circle, songs of and for Maria Tesselschade 1994 (GLO 6026) - Jacob van EyckJacob van EyckJonkheer Jacob van Eyck was a Dutch nobleman and musician. He was one of the best-known musicians in The Netherlands in the seventeenth century as a carillon player, expert in bell casting and tuning, organist, recorder virtuoso, and composer.Van Eyck was born blind into a noble family in the...
, painter and storyteller 1994 RijksmuseumRijksmuseumThe Rijksmuseum Amsterdam or simply Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum in Amsterdam, located on the Museumplein. The museum is dedicated to arts, crafts, and history. It has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age and a substantial collection of Asian art...
, Amsterdam. 2007 (Philips) - Bavianen en slijkgeuzen – Baboons and Mud Beggars, Songs of RemonstrantsRemonstrantsThe Remonstrants are the Dutch Protestants who, after the death of Jacobus Arminius, maintained the views associated with his name. In 1610 they presented to the States of Holland and Friesland a remonstrance in five articles formulating their points of disagreement from Calvinism.-History:The five...
and Counter-Remonstrants. 1995 (GLO 6031) - Cantiones natalitiae – Christmas Songs from the time of RubensRubensRubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens , the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens (composer) Rubens is...
. 1995 (Globe) - Genade ende Vrede (2CD set) – Grace and peace; MennoniteMennoniteThe Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons , who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders...
songs. 1996 (GLO 6038) - The Musical World of Jan SteenJan SteenJan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch genre painter of the 17th century . Psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour are marks of his trade.-Life:...
1996 (Globe 6040) - Hollandse Madrigalen Dutch-language Madrigals by Cornelis SchuytCornelis SchuytCornelis Floriszoon Schuyt was a Dutch organist and Renaissance composer.Cornelis Floriszoon Schuyt was born in Leiden in 1557...
, Cornelis Tymanszoon Padbrué and Joan Albert BanJoan Albert Ban-Life:From 1628-42 he was canon priest of the Haarlem chapter . In 1630 he became priest of the Begijnhof in Haarlem, across the street from the Janskerk ....
1996 (GLO 6042) 1996 - Maastrichts Liedboek – Polyphonic songs from the Niewe Duytsche Liedekens (MaastrichtMaastrichtMaastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...
1554). Clemens non Papa, Ludovicus EpiscopiusLudovicus EpiscopiusLudovicus Episcopius or Ludovicus de Bisschop was a Dutch composer of the late Renaissance.-Life and work:...
(+ sampler CD) (GLO 6046) - De Vrede van Munster – The Peace of MünsterPeace of MünsterThe Peace of Münster was a treaty between the Dutch Republic and Spain signed in 1648. It was a landmark treaty for the Dutch republic and one of the key events in Dutch history; with it, the United Netherlands finally became independent from the Spanish Crown...
1648, Dutch music from the Reformation. 1997 (GLO 6048) - Japix GysbertGysbert JapiksGysbert Japicx was a Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor.He admired Horace and Ovid and was a defender for the memmetaal which elevated Frisian to a literature language...
1603–1666 – Frisian Songs to tunes by Goudimel, Bourgeois, Pierre GuédronPierre GuédronPierre Guédron, , was a French singer and composer known for writing Airs de cour ....
. (GLO 6055) - Zingende Zwanen – Heiligenliederen uit de Gouden Eeuw Singing Swans - Sacred songs of the Golden Age, contrafacta to Dutch texts of Johannes Stalpaert van der Wiele and Guillelmus de Swaen. (GLO 6053)
- Liederen van varen en vechten – Songs of sailing and fighting; Songs of the Dutch East India Company (GLO 6054)
- Peeckelharing – Pickeled herring; Music around the painter Frans HalsFrans HalsFrans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also instrumental in the evolution of 17th century group portraiture.-Biography:Hals was born in 1580 or 1581, in Antwerp...
. (Globe 6056) - De Kist van Pierlala - The coffin of Pierlala; Dutch street songs from the broadside ballads collection of the Koniklijke Biliotheek in Den Haag and the Meertens Instituut in Amsterdam (18-20C). (GLO 6057)
- Het Antwerps Liedboek 1544 - The Antwerp songbookAntwerp songbookThe Antwerp songbook The Antwerp songbook The Antwerp songbook (in Dutch the Antwerps liedboek and on the cover Een schoon liedekens. Boeck inden welcken ghy in vinden sult. Veelderhande liedekens (a nice songbook in which you will find several songs) was published in Antwerp in 1544 by printer Jan...
(2CD) 2004 (GLO 6058) Edison Klassiek award 2006 in the category Middle Ages and Renaissance. - ObrechtObrechtObrecht is the name of:* Jacob Obrecht , Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance* Hermann Obrecht , Swiss politician...
- Secular songs with reconstructed texts by Gerrit KomrijGerrit KomrijGerrit Jan Komrij is a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands .-Biography:...
(Globe 6059) - Jacob CatsJacob CatsJacob Cats was a Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books.-Early years:...
1577-1660 - Mourning Maidens and other songs to moral texts (Globe 6063) - Theatermuziek uit de Gouden Eeuw – Theatre music from the Golden Age - to plays by Pieter Corneliszoon HooftPieter Corneliszoon HooftPieter Corneliszoon Hooft - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright from the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.-Life:...
, Jan Harmenszoon KrulJan Harmenszoon KrulJan Harmenszoon Krul was a Dutch Catholic playwright. His portrait was painted in 1633 by Rembrandt. Krul founded the Amsterdamsche Musijck Kamer, devoted to the cultivation of music drama.-Works:...
, Vondel, and Jan Janszoon Starter. (Globe 6062) - Johan Schenck: Bacchus, Ceres en Venus - The first Dutch opera reconstructed. (Globe)
- CalvijnCalvinCalvin may refer to:People with the surname Calvin:* John Calvin, theologian, founder of Calvinism* Idelette Calvin, wife of John Calvin, founder of Calvinism* Melvin Calvin, American chemist* Samuel Calvin, U.S. geologist...
in de Gouden EeuwDutch Golden AgeThe Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...
- Psalm settings of Sweelinck, Claude Le JeuneClaude Le JeuneClaude Le Jeune was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesurée, and a significant composer of the "Parisian" chanson, the predominant secular form in France in the latter half of the 16th century...
and Goudimel 2009 (Globe 6064) - De Zeven Zonden van Jeroen Bosch - texts by Gerrit KomrijGerrit KomrijGerrit Jan Komrij is a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands .-Biography:...
2010 (Globe 6065)
With books
- Dirk Coigneau. Een zoet akkoord. (CD to accompany book). In series of the Meertens Instituut