Obrecht: De wereldlijke werken

Obrecht: De wereldlijke werken
Camerata Trajectina / La Caccia / Brisk
Globe 6059

Contents:

  1. Tant que nostre argent durra
  2. Waer sij di Han / Wie roupt ons daer
  3. Ic ret my uut spacieren
  4. Den haghel ende die calde snee
  5. Marion la doulce
  6. Ic hoerde de clocskins luden
  7. Meiskin es u cutkin ru?
  8. Tandernaken
  9. Ic weinsche alle scoene vrauwen eere
  10. In hebbe gheen ghelt in myn bewelt
  11. Se bien fait
  12. Laet u ghenoughen liever Johan
  13. Fuga
  14. Weet ghij wat mynder jonghen herten deert
  15. Rompeltier
  16. ? Moet my lacen u vriendelic schijn
  17. Sullen wij laghe in drucke moeten leven
  18. Fors seulement
  19. Ic draghe de mutse clutse
  20. ? Nec michi nec tibi sed dividatur
  21. ? Tmeiskin was jonck
  22. Tsat een cleyn meiskin al up een blocskin
  23. Helas mon bien
  24. Wat willen wij metten budel spelen
  25. Lacen adieu wel zoete partye
  26. Als al de weerelt in vruechden leeft
  27. La tortorella
  28. J'ay pris amours

Performers: Hieke Meppelink (soprano), Sytse Buwalda (alto), Nico van der Meel (tenor), Marcel Moester (baritone), Saskia Coolen (recorder, viol), Erik Beijer (viol), Louis Peter Grijp (lute, cittern), Marcel Beekman (tenor), Johannes Boer (viol), Freek Borstlap (viol); Patrick Denecker (shawm), Marleen Leicher (cornet), Mirella Ruigrok (shawm), Dani Pelagatti (shawm), Cristian Braun (sackbut); Marjan Banis (recorder), Alide Verheij (recorder), Bert Honig (recorder)

Playing time: 68'

Recording date: May & June 2005 (Bunnik & Vreeland)

Release date: 2005

Obrecht's secular music is not nearly as well-known as his sacred works, partly due to the smaller scale, and partly due to the fact that much of it survives without lyrics. It is often unclear whether the lyrics are intended to be well-known, and so omitted, or whether the works are instrumental. In any event, Obrecht's secular items range from some of the more luxurious courtly songs in French, to simple & rollicking tunes in Dutch. There is little in the way of a unifying style, unlike in his mass cycles.

Lyrics to tracks 2-4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, 22, 24, and 25 are by the modern Dutch poet, Gerrit Komrij. They are based on musicological reconstructions of the likely syllable & rhyme patterns of the originals, and also on the known themes & ideas of the Rhetoricians of the period, the original writers of many of the morality texts on love & alcohol, etc. Uncertain attributions are marked with a question mark.

This program constitutes Obrecht's complete secular music to the extent that it is known today.

Original information from Johan Borremans.

Another recording featuring Obrecht's secular music:

Obrecht: Chansons / Songs / Motets
Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings / Piffaro - Joan Kimball & Robert Wiemken
Eufoda 1361

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Todd M. McComb