Margot Kalse

TOP OF THE POPS Dutch Golden Age Edition - Top 40 van de Gouden Eeuw

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Format: CD
Label: Aliud
UPC: 8717775551621
Catnr: ACDOE 1222
Release date: 05 August 2022
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Aliud
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8717775551621
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ACDOE 1222
Release date
05 August 2022
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About the album

The power of melodies
Everyone has the natural ability and need to make and listen to music. We experience this every day, whether we are working or are looking for relaxation, are in church or in a bar, are at a party or putting children to bed. The easiest way to make music is by singing songs, especially if you have the tune in your head. Songs – with tunes that everyone knows or quickly learns – provide the best means of connecting people one to another, particularly if they can enjoy it together. It has been shown by science that singing makes you happy: singing produces endorphins, oxytocin and dopamine: hormones and neurotransmitters that constitute the most important triggers of pleasure in our brains.

Centuries ago it was no different. Whereas we nowadays have at our disposal music programs on radio and TV, playlists on Spotify, millions of videos on YouTube and a fast-growing number of concerts via streaming services, people in the past had to make do with the city’s carillon, annual visits to fairs, the church organ and the city musicians such as Jacob van Eyck, who played the recorder in the churchyard of Sint Jan’s in Utrecht. To hear anything more you had to make music yourself. A few played an instrument, however everybody could sing. And there were songs for every occasion. They resounded around the family dinner table, at school, in the streets, in church, outdoors with a lover, at country people’s festivities, at weddings, on journeys, on board ships or passenger barges, at work or in the theatre. This type of song provides the basis for this Top 40 project, which starts from the 40 most commonly used melodies of the period 1535-1750.
Die Kraft der Melodien
Jeder Mensch hat die natürliche Fähigkeit und das Bedürfnis, Musik zu machen und zu hören. Wir erleben dies jeden Tag, ob wir nun arbeiten oder Entspannung suchen, in der Kirche oder in einer Bar sind, auf einer Party sind oder die Kinder ins Bett bringen. Die einfachste Art, Musik zu machen, ist das Singen von Liedern, besonders wenn man die Melodie im Kopf hat. Lieder - mit Melodien, die jeder kennt oder schnell lernt - sind das beste Mittel, um Menschen miteinander zu verbinden, vor allem, wenn sie es gemeinsam genießen können. Es ist wissenschaftlich erwiesen, dass Singen glücklich macht: Beim Singen werden Endorphine, Oxytocin und Dopamin ausgeschüttet: Hormone und Neurotransmitter, die die wichtigsten Auslöser für Freude in unserem Gehirn sind.

Vor Jahrhunderten war das nicht anders. Während wir heute über Musiksendungen im Radio und Fernsehen, Playlists auf Spotify, Millionen von Videos auf YouTube und eine schnell wachsende Zahl von Konzerten über Streaming-Dienste verfügen, mussten sich die Menschen früher mit dem städtischen Glockenspiel, dem jährlichen Besuch von Jahrmärkten, der Kirchenorgel und den Stadtmusikanten wie Jacob van Eyck begnügen, der auf dem Kirchhof von Sint Jan's in Utrecht die Blockflöte spielte. Um etwas zu hören, musste man selbst Musik machen. Einige wenige spielten ein Instrument, aber singen konnte jeder. Und es gab Lieder für jede Gelegenheit. Sie erklangen am Familientisch, in der Schule, auf der Straße, in der Kirche, im Freien mit einem Geliebten, bei Festen der Landbevölkerung, bei Hochzeiten, auf Reisen, an Bord von Schiffen oder Passagierkähnen, bei der Arbeit oder im Theater. Diese Art von Liedern bildet die Grundlage für dieses Top-40-Projekt, das von den 40 am häufigsten verwendeten Melodien aus dem Zeitraum 1535-1750 ausgeht.

Artist(s)

Margot Kalse (mezzo soprano)

Margot Kalse is a classical alt-mezzo singer, specializing in early music. Kalse is founder and leader of the Trigon Ensemble of medieval vocal music. Kalse is also an experienced singing teacher and has been a choir conductor since 2010. She has her own singing school and gives vocal training to choirs. Kalse has conducted baroque opera's and choir projects, and was guest director of the Leiden Ekklesia Schola Cantorum. She is the creator and maker of the Top 40 van de Gouden Eeuw (Dutch Golden Age Top 40).
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Margot Kalse is a classical alt-mezzo singer, specializing in early music. Kalse is founder and leader of the Trigon Ensemble of medieval vocal music.

Kalse is also an experienced singing teacher and has been a choir conductor since 2010. She has her own singing school and gives vocal training to choirs. Kalse has conducted baroque opera's and choir projects, and was guest director of the Leiden Ekklesia Schola Cantorum. She is the creator and maker of the Top 40 van de Gouden Eeuw (Dutch Golden Age Top 40).


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Earl Christy (lute)

Earl Christy studied with (among others) Toyohiko Satoh, Nigel North and Paul Beier, and gives lute concerts in Europe and the United States. He is a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque music and has done extensive research in archives and libraries across Europe and has published many “forgotten” aspects of the lute. He is in great demand as a continuo player and teacher. As a composer, he explores the technical limits of the lute within the context of the musical language of the 18th century. His works can be heard on the CD “Neue Lautenfrüchte”.
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Earl Christy studied with (among others) Toyohiko Satoh, Nigel North and Paul Beier, and gives lute concerts in Europe and the United States. He is a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque music and has done extensive research in archives and libraries across Europe and has published many “forgotten” aspects of the lute. He is in great demand as a continuo player and teacher. As a composer, he explores the technical limits of the lute within the context of the musical language of the 18th century. His works can be heard on the CD “Neue Lautenfrüchte”.

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Ilil Danin (harpsichord)

Sebastiaan Ammerlaan (baritone)

Sebastiaan Ammerlaan started singing when he joined the university choir as part of his viola minor at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg. From 2013 he studied classical singing at the HKU Utrecht Conservatory. First with Jón Þorsteinsson and from 2016–2020 with Selma Harkink. From 2020 he will follow the master Ensemble Singing at the Royal Conservatoire with lessons from Harry van Berne (ensemble) and Gerda van Zelm (solo vocals). He was also taught by David Wilson-Johnson, Jasper Schweppe, Irene Verburg, Kaspar Kröner, Marjan Kuiper and Elisabeth Blom. Sebastiaan sings in the Bach Choir of the Netherlands and NKK NXT and sang with Meesters & Gezellen (2016 to 2018), the Dutch National Opera Academy, Muziektheater Hollands Diep, TENSO Europe Chamber Choir...
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Sebastiaan Ammerlaan started singing when he joined the university choir as part of his viola minor at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg. From 2013 he studied classical singing at the HKU Utrecht Conservatory. First with Jón Þorsteinsson and from 2016–2020 with Selma Harkink. From 2020 he will follow the master Ensemble Singing at the Royal Conservatoire with lessons from Harry van Berne (ensemble) and Gerda van Zelm (solo vocals). He was also taught by David Wilson-Johnson, Jasper Schweppe, Irene Verburg, Kaspar Kröner, Marjan Kuiper and Elisabeth Blom. Sebastiaan sings in the Bach Choir of the Netherlands and NKK NXT and sang with Meesters & Gezellen (2016 to 2018), the Dutch National Opera Academy, Muziektheater Hollands Diep, TENSO Europe Chamber Choir and the Zed Chamber Choir. In 2017 he founded the Ensemble Nieuwe Muziek with soprano Veronika Akhmetchina: an ensemble with a constantly changing line-up for performing freshly written music. With soprano Iris Bouman, alto Hester Westra and tenor Dierick Aartsen, he also sings in Ensemble Cantorex, a vocal ensemble specialized in Renaissance and Baroque music. Esther Kronenburg started singing while studying Italian in Utrecht. She took private singing lessons with Naomi Hanai and Renee Kartodirdjo. In 2008 she started studying Early Vocal Music at the Tilburg Conservatory, where she worked on the repertoire of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Early Baroque under Idikó Hajnal. Esther attended masterclasses with, among others, Jill Feldman, Anne Azéma, Johannette Zomer, Raquel Andueza and Evelyn Tubb. She completed her studies in 2012 and has since then received vocal coaching from Xenia Meijer. Esther mainly performs in an ensemble, with an emphasis on music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. She currently works a lot with ensemble Oriana, the Coprario consort and ensemble Profondamente. She has performed extensively with the Hemony ensemble, Trigon, Voces Pauli and Cantores Sancti Gregorii. She forms a regular duo with countertenor Peter van Wolferen.

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Disc #1
01.
1.O zalig heilig Bethlehem
05:44
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
02.
2a. Wilhelmus
06:09
Sebastiaan Ammerlaan, Margot Kalse, Earl Christy
03.
2b. Het Nederlandse Volkslied
01:02
Margot Kalse, Earl Christy
04.
3b. Psalm 24, Aen Jan Jacobsz Visscher
06:58
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
05.
4. O kerstnacht schoner dan de dagen
05:59
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
06.
5. Psalm 68
09:23
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
07.
6. Tien geboden
04:34
Margot Kalse, Earl Christy
08.
7. Si c’est pour mon pucelage
03:33
Margot Kalse, Earl Christy, Sebastiaan Ammerlaan
09.
8a. Schoonste nimf van het woud
01:55
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
10.
8b. Amaril de deeken sacht
04:46
Ilil Danin, Margot Kalse
11.
9. Engelse fortuin
03:03
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
12.
10b. Lofzang van Maria, Ick schouw de Werelt aen
03:47
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
13.
11. Fortuin helaas
03:38
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
14.
12a. De lustelijke mei is nu in de tijd
05:07
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
15.
13a. Sei tanto graziosa
05:23
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
16.
14. Psalm 100
02:15
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse

Disc #2
01.
15. De tijd is hier
03:27
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
02.
16a. Psalm 8
04:58
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
03.
17. Belle Iris
03:49
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
04.
18. Ik drink de nieuwe most
03:13
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
05.
19. Courante monsieur
02:00
Ilil Danin, Margot Kalse
06.
20. Te mei als alle vogels zingen
06:43
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
07.
21. Polyphemus aan de stranden
04:10
Sebastiaan Ammerlaan, Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
08.
22. Rozemond die lag gedoken
03:41
Ilil Danin, Margot Kalse
09.
23. Nerea schoonste van uw geburen
07:59
Sebastiaan Ammerlaan, Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
10.
24a. Sarabande Pinel
04:08
Ilil Danin, Margot Kalse
11.
25. Schoon lief wil mij troost geven
03:15
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
12.
26. O nacht jaloerse nacht
08:07
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
13.
27. Onze vader in hemelrijk
06:11
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
14.
28. Psalm 118
05:36
Sebastiaan Ammerlaan, Earl Christy, Margot Kalse

Disc #3
01.
29. Psalm 23
06:18
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
02.
30. Cette cruelle
04:14
Ilil Danin, Margot Kalse
03.
31. Het daagt in de oosten
09:46
Esther Kronenburg, Sebastiaan Ammerlaan, Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
04.
32a. Het vinnige stralen van de zon
02:21
Ilil Danin, Margot Kalse
05.
33. Zal ik nog langer in hete tranen
04:45
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
06.
34b. Het viel eens hemels douwe (Antwerps liedboek)
06:03
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
07.
35. Amarilli mia bella
02:20
Ilil Danin, Margot Kalse
08.
36. Een amoureus fier gelaat
04:44
Esther Kronenburg, Sebastiaan Ammerlaan, Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
09.
37a. Psalm 6
03:17
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
10.
38. Psalm 116
03:27
Esther Kronenburg, Sebastiaan Ammerlaan, Earl Christy
11.
39b. Psalm 103, Wel op myn luth
04:39
Earl Christy, Margot Kalse
12.
40. Allez où le sort vous conduit
03:53
Ilil Danin, Margot Kalse
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