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Various composers

Teun Wisse | Teun Braken

Unico

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Format: SACD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917294323
Catnr: CC 72943
Release date: 02 June 2023
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Label
Challenge Classics
UPC
0608917294323
Catalogue number
CC 72943
Release date
02 June 2023

"Beyond an impressive degree of accuracy, the playing has much style and grace too. The sound comes across as natural and is balanced well. Thus nothing is dull and mechanical in either the writing or its rendition."

American Record Guide, 01-3-2024
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About the album

The Story of Dutch baroque music is a story of cultural connections, of European history. There was not a shortage of music, including repertoire for recorder, in Holland: Amsterdam was not only a center of composition and instrument making, but also one of the most important centers for music publishing. Many of the most esteemed Italian composers had their work published in Amsterdam, making it available there earlier there than in their own country. Dutch composers as well as musicians of the time were thus ironically more ‘close to the source’ than many of their Italian colleagues. The music that was written by Dutch composers was heavily influenced by the Italian style.

Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant and his music are exemplary for the strong international character of composition, instrument making, music printing and publishing, and of course musical performance, in which The Netherlands and Amsterdam in particular, played a central role. Sybrant van Noordt is a perfect example of the Italomania. A happy marriage of structural simplicity and richness of detail only achieved by great craftmanship applies the sonata of Willem de Fesch perfectly. Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer is a central figure in this programme in which all three of his Sonatas for recorder and harpsichord are featured. These Sonatas are “almost as good as those of Corelli” – as a French official put it during a journey by Wassenaer to Paris.
Die Geschichte der holländischen Barockmusik ist eine Geschichte der kulturellen Verbindungen, der europäischen Geschichte. An Musik, auch an Repertoire für Blockflöte, mangelte es in Holland nicht: Amsterdam war nicht nur ein Zentrum der Komposition und des Instrumentenbaus, sondern auch eines der wichtigsten Zentren für das Musikverlagswesen. Viele der angesehensten italienischen Komponisten ließen ihre Werke in Amsterdam veröffentlichen, so dass sie dort früher erhältlich waren als in ihrem eigenen Land. Die niederländischen Komponisten und Musiker jener Zeit waren somit ironischerweise näher an der Quelle" als viele ihrer italienischen Kollegen. Die Musik, die von niederländischen Komponisten geschrieben wurde, war stark vom italienischen Stil beeinflusst.

Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant und seine Musik sind beispielhaft für den starken internationalen Charakter der Komposition, des Instrumentenbaus, des Notendrucks und des Verlagswesens und natürlich der musikalischen Aufführung, bei denen die Niederlande und insbesondere Amsterdam eine zentrale Rolle spielten. Sybrant van Noordt ist ein perfektes Beispiel für die Italomania. Die Sonate von Willem de Fesch ist eine glückliche Verbindung von struktureller Einfachheit und Detailreichtum, die nur durch großes handwerkliches Können erreicht werden kann. Graf Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer ist eine zentrale Figur in diesem Programm, in dem alle drei seiner Sonaten für Blockflöte und Cembalo zu hören sind. Diese Sonaten sind "fast so gut wie die von Corelli" - wie es ein französischer Beamter während einer Reise Wassenaers nach Paris formulierte.

Artist(s)

Teun Wisse (recorder)

Teun & Teun Recorder player Teun Wisse and harpsichordist Teun Braken met each other during their studies at the Utrecht Conservatory in 2012 and have since collaborated and performed in various European countries including Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Scotland, and the Netherlands, where they played in numerous music festivals and concert series such as the Utrecht Early Music Festival and Early Music Season of the Early Music Organisation. Since 2018, the musicians and good friends have been living and working in the Basel region of Switzerland, where they studied at the prestigious Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The essence of their approach is to approach music from its cultural and historical context, to create the conditions for a convincing performance and to make the Baroque...
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Teun & Teun Recorder player Teun Wisse and harpsichordist Teun Braken met each other during their studies at the Utrecht Conservatory in 2012 and have since collaborated and performed in various European countries including Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Scotland, and the Netherlands, where they played in numerous music festivals and concert series such as the Utrecht Early Music Festival and Early Music Season of the Early Music Organisation.

Since 2018, the musicians and good friends have been living and working in the Basel region of Switzerland, where they studied at the prestigious Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The essence of their approach is to approach music from its cultural and historical context, to create the conditions for a convincing performance and to make the Baroque vocabulary their own.

In their musical performances, Teun & Teun always try to leave room for special musical moments by adopting an open attitude towards each other and the music. Due to their long collaboration and intensive way of working, space is created for spontaneity, resulting in a unique, lively, and captivating performance.


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Teun Braken (harpsichord)

Teun & Teun Recorder player Teun Wisse and harpsichordist Teun Braken met each other during their studies at the Utrecht Conservatory in 2012 and have since collaborated and performed in various European countries including Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Scotland, and the Netherlands, where they played in numerous music festivals and concert series such as the Utrecht Early Music Festival and Early Music Season of the Early Music Organisation. Since 2018, the musicians and good friends have been living and working in the Basel region of Switzerland, where they studied at the prestigious Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The essence of their approach is to approach music from its cultural and historical context, to create the conditions for a convincing performance and to make the Baroque...
more

Teun & Teun Recorder player Teun Wisse and harpsichordist Teun Braken met each other during their studies at the Utrecht Conservatory in 2012 and have since collaborated and performed in various European countries including Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Scotland, and the Netherlands, where they played in numerous music festivals and concert series such as the Utrecht Early Music Festival and Early Music Season of the Early Music Organisation.

Since 2018, the musicians and good friends have been living and working in the Basel region of Switzerland, where they studied at the prestigious Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The essence of their approach is to approach music from its cultural and historical context, to create the conditions for a convincing performance and to make the Baroque vocabulary their own.

In their musical performances, Teun & Teun always try to leave room for special musical moments by adopting an open attitude towards each other and the music. Due to their long collaboration and intensive way of working, space is created for spontaneity, resulting in a unique, lively, and captivating performance.


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Press

Beyond an impressive degree of accuracy, the playing has much style and grace too. The sound comes across as natural and is balanced well. Thus nothing is dull and mechanical in either the writing or its rendition.
American Record Guide, 01-3-2024

...the character attributed to Van Wassenaer: entertaining, refreshing, with inventive quips and joie de vivre. The performance, which fits the same qualifications, is beautifully captured in the breathing acoustics of the former wooden barn church Zuidervermaning in Westzaan...
Luister, 01-9-2023

(...) listening to Wisse I was immediately impressed by the way he so effortlessly moulded the scores into a pleasing and attractive series of melodies conveying what these Dutch Baroque composers no doubt would have wanted the audience to hear. Enthusiastically supported by Teun Braken, who is not only a gifted harpsichord player having already earned his salt elsewhere, but in this particular case also and more importantly a skilled accompanist. He takes full responsibility for delivering the fundament, a condition sine qua non for a duo to successfully operate.
HRAudio, 14-6-2023

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01.
Sonata No. 3 in G Major: I. Largo
02:28
(Jean Baptiste Loeillet van Gent) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
02.
Sonata No. 3 in G Major: II. Allegro
02:14
(Jean Baptiste Loeillet van Gent) Teun Wisse, Teun Braken
03.
Sonata No. 3 in G Major: III. Adagio
03:20
(Jean Baptiste Loeillet van Gent) Teun Wisse, Teun Braken
04.
Sonata No. 3 in G Major: IV. Gavotta Allegro
02:23
(Jean Baptiste Loeillet van Gent) Teun Wisse, Teun Braken
05.
Sonata No. 1 à Fluto Solo è Basso Continuo. F Major: I. Vivace
00:54
(Sybrandus van Noordt) Teun Wisse, Teun Braken
06.
Sonata No. 1 à Fluto Solo è Basso Continuo. F Major: II. Adagio
01:37
(Sybrandus van Noordt) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
07.
Sonata No. 1 à Fluto Solo è Basso Continuo. F Major: III. Allegro
01:43
(Sybrandus van Noordt) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
08.
Sonata No. 3 in G Major: I. Largo
01:11
(Willem de Fesch) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
09.
Sonata No. 3 in G Major: II. Allamanda
02:35
(Willem de Fesch) Teun Wisse, Teun Braken
10.
Sonata No. 3 in G Major: III. Larghetto
02:23
(Willem de Fesch) Teun Wisse, Teun Braken
11.
Sonata No. 3 in G Major: IV. Gavotta
01:01
(Willem de Fesch) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
12.
Sonata No. 4 à Cimbalo Solo in A Minor
07:12
(Sybrandus van Noordt) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
13.
Sonata Prima in F Major: I. Grave
02:02
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
14.
Sonata Prima in F Major: II. Allegro
03:38
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
15.
Sonata Prima in F Major: III. Adagio
01:22
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Wisse, Teun Braken
16.
Sonata Prima in F Major: IV. Giga Presto
01:30
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
17.
Sonata Seconda in G Minor: I. Grave
01:54
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
18.
Sonata Seconda in G Minor: II. Allegro
02:06
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
19.
Sonata Seconda in G Minor: III. Adagio
01:23
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
20.
Sonata Seconda in G Minor: IV. Giga Presto
02:18
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
21.
Sonata Terza in G Minor: I. Grave
03:03
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
22.
Sonata Terza in G Minor: II. Allegro
02:36
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
23.
Sonata Terza in G Minor: III. Sarabanda, Grave
03:07
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
24.
Sonata Terza in G Minor: IV. Giga Presto
01:12
(Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) Teun Braken, Teun Wisse
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