William I, Prince of Oranje, Adriaen Thomasz. Key, c. 1579
Of the noblemen who rebelled against Phillip II’s Spanish rule of the Netherlands, William of Orange (1533–1584) rose to become the great leader of the Dutch Revolt. He defended his own interests, strove for greater independence and advocated freedom of religion. In 1580 Phillip II put a price on his head, and he was assassinated four years later.
Valerius Gedenck-Clanck - Wilhelmus
Annneleen Bijnen alt
John van Halteren - tenor
Hans Meijer - lute
Musick’s Monument recording
Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 1633The 76-year-old Remonstrant minister, once the court chaplain of Prince Maurice, wears a calotte (skullcap) and a ‘tabard’, a fur-lined cloak – the kind of clothing elderly scholars preferred to be portrayed in. Wtenbogaert’s face is more realistically modelled than his hands, which may have been done by a pupil in Rembrandt’s workshop.
Valerius Gedenck-Clanck -Batavia Ghy syt de Bruyd
O mensch denckt dat ghy syt sterfelyck
Annneleen Bijnen alt
John van Halteren - tenor
Hans Meijer - lute
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Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 1634
Haesje van Cleyburg, the wife of a wealthy Rotterdam beer brewer, is fashionably yet extremely soberly dressed. She has not been made more beautiful than she was: the wrinkles, shadows under her eyes, the bushy eyebrows, and the greying hair are all rendered with painstaking realism. What makes the portrait so charming is the faint smile that plays across her slightly parted lips.
Thomas Campion 1613 or 1614
Out of my soul’s depth - Tineke Mulder - Anneleen Bijnen - John van Halteren - Harry Teeuwen & Hans Meijer-lute
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Portrait of a Goldsmith, Probably Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft, Werner van den Valckert, 1617
The man leans out of a window. In his right hand he holds up a gold ring set with a stone. His left hand rests on a touchstone, an instrument for assessing the purity of gold and silver objects. The sitter might be the goldsmith Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft. In 1617, the year the portrait was painted, he was appointed assay-master of the Leiden goldsmiths’ guild, which would explain the inclusion of the touchstone.
John Dowland - I saw my lady weep
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano
Hans Meijer -lute
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Portrait of an Old Lady, Possibly Elisabeth Bas, attributed to Ferdinand Bol, c. 1640 - c. 1645
Rembrandt’s studio in Amsterdam quickly became a hive of activity, with many pupils eager to work in his style. This portrait was long held to be an autograph painting by Rembrandt himself. The sitter may be Elisabeth Bas, the widow of a wealthy tavern owner.
John Dowland - If my complaints
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano
Hans Meijer -lute
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Portrait of Anna Boudaen Courten (1599-1622), attributed to Salomon Mesdach, 1619
Byrd/Cutting- The woods so wild
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano
Hans Meijer -lute
Portret van een man, waarschijnlijk een predikant, copy after Anthonie Palamedesz., 1650
Valerius Gedenck-Clanck - Als God syn volck besoeckt
Annneleen Bijnen alt
John van Halteren - tenor
Hans Meijer - lute
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Portret van Adriana Croes, Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck, 1644
Valerius Gedenck-Clanck & Aefgen van Giblant
Lieffde int secreet
Paula Bär-Giese - Hans Meijer luit
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Portrait of a Woman, Frans Hals, c. 1635
Compared with the dynamic Portrait of a Man, this one of his wife makes a somewhat more formal impression. The pose is traditional, with the upper torso turned slightly to the left. She looks straight at the viewer, her lips slightly parted as though she is about to speak. Her face is rendered in much thinner paint than that of her husband, beautifully suggesting the greater softness of a woman’s skin.
John Dowland - Can she excuse my wrongs
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano
Hans Meijer -lute
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Portret van een Hollandse vlootvoogd, circle of Pieter Pietersz. (I), 1570 - 1610
Thomas Campion 1613 or 1614
Out of my soul’s depth - Tineke Mulder - Anneleen Bijnen - John van Halteren - Harry Teeuwen & Hans Meijer - lute
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Portret van Maria Joachimsdr Swartenhont (1598-1631), Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy, 1627
John Dowland - Lachrimae
Hans Meijer - lute
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Portret van een vrouw, waarschijnlijk Maria Schuurman (1575-1621), anoniem, c. 1599 - c. 1600
Giulio Caccini - Amarilli
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano & virginal
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Portrait of Maritge Claesdr Vooght, Frans Hals, 1639
Frans Hals painted a large number of superb likenesses of members of Haarlem’s upper class: he clearly knew how to satisfy the demands of his eminent patrons. Maritge Vooght, wife of the mayor Pieter Olycan, is here portrayed in a traditional pose, proudly sitting upright and looking straight out at the viewer. Hals noted her age, 62, at left. Her coat of arms was added later by a different hand.
Valerius Gedenck-Clanck
Annneleen Bijnen alt
John van Halteren - tenor
Hans Meijer - lute
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Portret van Alid van der Laen (1542-1626), copy after Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, after 1653
Josquin - Mille regretz
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano
Hans Meijer - vihuela
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Portrait of Catharina Behaghel, Jacob Jordaens (I), 1635
Jordaens portrayed Catharina Behaghel seated before a sumptuous background, which recurs in his portrait of Catharina’s husband, Rogier Le Witer. Like him, she is shown frontally, which was exceptional in 17th-century portraiture. Her clothes, pearls and medallion attest to her wealth.
John Dowland - Come again
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano
Hans Meijer -lute
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Portrait of Maritge Claesdr Vooght, Frans Hals, 1639
Frans Hals painted a large number of superb likenesses of members of Haarlem’s upper class: he clearly knew how to satisfy the demands of his eminent patrons. Maritge Vooght, wife of the mayor Pieter Olycan, is here portrayed in a traditional pose, proudly sitting upright and looking straight out at the viewer. Hals noted her age, 62, at left. Her coat of arms was added later by a different hand.
Cutting - Greensleeves
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano
Hans Meijer - lute
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Portrait of Feyntje van Steenkiste, Frans Hals, 1635
This pendant portrays the wife of Lucas de Clercq. Spouses were customarily depicted separately, the husband on the left and the wife on the right, both turned towards each other. The light almost always came from the left, illuminating the face of the woman evenly, and casting striking shadows on that of the man. Hals portrayed the woman – as was usual – in a more static pose than that of the man.
The Cobler-Schoenlapperken
Hans Meijer -lute
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Merry Company
signature and date: Isack Elyas f. 1629
Feestvierend gezelschap. Interieur met een feestvierend, drinkend en muziekmakend gezelschap rond een gedekte tafel. Links zit een vrouw met een hondje op schoot, daarnaast een oude man met een lied of gedicht in de hand. In het midden zit een paar, waarvan de jongeman een leeg glas ondersteboven houdt, rechtsvoor een man die een luit bespeelt. Rechts staan een man en een vrouw. Op de voorgrond een omgevallen stoel, op tafel een aangebroken pastei, een schaal met bessen, een kan, borden en glazen. Aan de muur hangen twee schilderijen.
Dowland - Prelude
Holborne - Heigh Ho Holiday
Kemp’s Jig -anonymous - Hans Meijer lute
Pieter Codde
(Amsterdam ca. 1599 - Amsterdam 12-okt-1678)
Datering 1633
Galante dames en heren. Interieur waarin twee mannen van de jacht terugkeren met geschoten wild: een haas en twee patrijzen. Een staande vrouw neemt de haas in ontvangst. Rond een tafel zitten drie dames, links een vrouw met een luit en rechts twee vrouwen die bij een spiegel sieraden aan het passen zijn. Aan de rechterkant van de kamer staat een bed waartegen een cello en een kandelaar geleund staan, rechts een hond. Boven de deur hangt een schilderij met het portret van een man.
Dowland - adieu
Hans Meijer - lute
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Willem Cornelisz. Duyster (kopie naar)
Amsterdam 30-aug-1599 - Amsterdam 31-jan-1635
Datering na 1700
Valerius Gedenck-Clanck & Aefgen van Giblant
Lieffde int secreet
Paula Bär-Giese - Hans Meijer luit
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Joos van Winghe (kopie naar) 1580-1630
Adrian Le Roy & Robert Ballard 1551-1555
Mes pas semez
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano
Hans Meijer - renaissance guitar
Rysum Organ 1457
Pierre Attaignant 1530
Le jaulne et bleu
Margreet Prinsen - organ
The Fête champêtre
De buitenpartij
schilder:signature and date: D HALS 1627 (Haarlem 19-mar-1591 - 17-mei-1656)
Thomas Campion 1613 or 1614
Lift up to haev’n sad wretch thy heavy sprite - Tineke Mulder - Anneleen Bijnen - John van Halteren - Harry Teeuwen & Hans Meijer - lute
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Group Portrait of an Unidentified Board of Governors, Thomas de Keyser, c. 1625 - c. 1630
The governors of associations, institutions, and businesses took pride in having themselves portrayed as a group. These three unidentified gentlemen are clearly involved with money and precious objects. On the table before them are a pouch with coins and a beautiful ornate scale for weighing gold and other valuables. The man at the right holds a letter of credit. They may well be bankers.
Cristobal de Morales (1500-1553) - Missa Mille regrets
The Musick’s Monument Vocal Ensemble
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Portret van Jochem Hendricksz Swartenhont (1566-1627), Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy, 1627
Philipe Rogier (1526-1596) - De pacem Domine
The Musick’s Monument Vocal Ensemble
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Albertus van Habsburg (1559-1621), aartshertog van Oostenrijk, workshop of Frans Pourbus (II), c. 1600
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) - O lux et decus Hispaniae
The Musick’s Monument Vocal Ensemble
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Portret van Willem Lodewijk, graaf van Nassau, bijgenaamd in het Fries 'us heit' (onze vader), workshop of Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1609
Cornelis Schuyt (1557-1616) - Bewaert Heer Hollandt
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Portret van Ambrogio Spinola (1569-1630), Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1609
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) - Officium Defunctorum: Libera Me
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Portrait of Peter Courten, attributed to Salomon Mesdach, 1617
Only the very wealthy could afford to keep up with fashion. Those less fortunate had to wear their clothes until they were completely threadbare. The modish attire worn by this young man bespeaks great affluence, as does the colourful Turkish carpet on the draw-leaf table. The sitter may be Peter Courten, scion of a wealthy family of merchants in Zeeland.
Hubert Waelrant - Musiciens qui chantez
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Maria de' Medici (1573-1642). Echtgenote van Hendrik IV, koning van Frankrijk, workshop of Frans Pourbus (II), 1590 - 1620
André Pevernage (1543-1591) - O Seigneur De Dieu mon esperance
The Musick’s Monument Vocal Ensemble
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Portret van een echtpaar met kind, leden van de familie van Beresteyn, anoniem, c. 1655 Constantine Huygens (1596-1687) Pathodia Sacra et Profana, Paris 1647
Domine Deus
Jasper Schweppe - baritone
Margreet Prinsen - organ
Jan Goorissen - viola da gamba
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Portrait of a Couple, Probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, Frans Hals, c. 1622
This happy, smiling pair sits comfortably close to each other. Posing a couple together in this way was highly unusual at the time. It may have been prompted by the sitters’ friendship with the painter and the occasion for the commission – their marriage in April 1622. The painting thus contains references to love and devotion, such as the garden of love at right, and at left an eryngium thistle, known in Dutch as ‘mannentrouw’, or male fidelity.
Jean Richafort (1480-1548) - Trut avant il faut boire
The Musick’s Monument Vocal Ensemble - dirigent Brian Fieldhouse
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Elegant Couples Courting, Willem Pietersz. Buytewech, c. 1616 - c. 1620
The seated woman tries to entice the young man by offering him rosebuds. He turns away from her, resting his hand on the head of his dog, his wise mentor. No harm will come to this young man. The other couple, however, choose wanton love; they leave the glove – a symbol of marriage – lying on the ground.
Benedictus Appenzeller - Mijns liefkens bruin oghen
The Musick’s Monument Vocal Ensemble - dirigent Brian Fieldhouse
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STort tranen uyt (Incarnatien op de doot des Princen van Oranjen) - Valerius Gedenck-Clanck - LOUISE DE COLIGNY & ROMBERTUS UYLENBURGH
Paula Bär-Giese - soprano & Hans Meijer - lute
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STort tranen uyt, schreyt luyde! weent en treurt!
Och't dunct my dat myn herte barst en scheurt!
O dag! o dag! o doncker droeve dag!
Wat isser al gehuyl en groot geklag!
2.
O Nederlant! u Vorst, u Prins soo vroom!
Die daer de blom was van d'Oranjen-boom!
Die door syn deucht, u van het Spaensch gesoord *
Soo heeft beschermt; leyt nu eylaes vermoord!
3.
Gelyck de Sonn' het licht is vanden dag,
Soo oock dees Prins ons licht te wesen plag.
Die raet en daed hier by ons is geweest
Is nu ontsielt, by Gode leeft zijn geest.
4.
Als de Maraen 'sLants vryheyt druckte seer,
Met moord en brand dat noch vervulde meer,
Heeft dese Prins daer tegen hem gekant,
End' opgeset syn goet en bloet voor't Land.
5.
Ghy vrome d'wyl dat dit soo is geschiet,
End' dattet nu kan wesen anders niet:
Vertrout op God, door 'sPrincen spruyten haest
Sal Spanjen noch verwert staen en verbaest.
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*Gesoord: gespuis(?).
Portrait of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Anonymous, 1550 - 1599
The most sacred Queene Elizabeth, her Gaillard. - John Dowland
Hans Meijer - lute
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