Tabea Schwartz; Vernon Consort - More than Muses - Female creative power in the Golden Age [CD]

Cat. no: CC720017
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917200171
Release Date: 30 May 2025
Genre: Classical

The debut recording of Tabea Schwartz's Vernon Consort, another remarkable fruit of the Musik-Akademie Basel

The programme of this recording is an enthralling discovery journey through the female musical environment of the Netherlands Golden Age, including world premiere recordings.

Almost 400 years ago, Amsterdam and Antwerp entered a Golden Age of art and music whose beauty still resonates today. Following the perspectives of three young women (a recorder virtuoso, a composer and a publisher), More than Muses presents a unique soundscape of this cultural fourishing.There is no evidence of a direct meeting between the three women. However, they moved in similar circles and there is evidence that they had common acquaintances. The main common denominator in their biographies is and remains music.Adriana, Madeleine and Leonora are representative of those whose biographies and music have yet to be fully discovered. 

All three of them contributed considerably to the cultural fourishing of the 17th century - they truly were more than muses.

Tabea Schwartz - Recorder
Elizabeth Rumsey - Tenor viol
Claire Piganiol - Harp
Giovanna Baviera - Bass viol
Caroline Ritchie - Bass viol
Niels Pfeffer - Theorbo
Filipa Meneses - Violone

Tracks: Luidhens: 'T uitnemend kabinet Capritie / Matthysz: Der Gooden Fluyt Hemel Kits Allemande / Buonamente: Sonate e Canzoni Libro 6 Canzon a 4 / Sweelinck: Le Nuove Musiche Amarilli mia bella / Septiesme livre Amarilli mijn schoone (Anon) / Jacob van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-hof Amarilli mia bella met 2 / Rossi: Il quarto libro de varie sonate Sonata Ottava sopra l'Aria e tanto tempo hormai / Pieter Dirckszoon Pers: 'T uitnemend kabinet Fantasia Adriana van den Bergh / Duarte: Sinfonia a 5 Sinfonia Terti toni / Kempis: Symphoniae Symphonia 3 / van Wichel: Fasciculus dulcedinis Sonata Quinta / van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust- hof Daphne / van Wichel: Fasciculus dulcedinis Sonata Quarta / Duarte: Sinfonia a5 Sinfonia Decimi toni / Oude en Nieuwe Boerenlieties Cecilia (Anon) / Sweelinck: Livre 7 Maeck freucht / Cecilia voll deucht / Uccellini: Sinfonie Boscarecie Symphonia 16 La Grancifora / Duarte: Sinfonia a5 Sinfonia Secondi toni