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NEO - French Baroque Music and New Compositions
Various composers

Saskia Coolen | Rainer Zipperling | Patrick Ayrton

NEO - French Baroque Music and New Compositions

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525528802
Catnr: GLO 5288
Release date: 10 January 2025
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Globe
UPC
8711525528802
Catalogue number
GLO 5288
Release date
10 January 2025
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About the album

NEO - French Baroque Music and New Compositions brings together French Baroque music and modern compositions. The album includes works by Jean-Féry Rebel, François Couperin, and Marin Marais, along with new pieces by Calliope Tsoupaki, Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk, and Torben Klaes. Recorded in Burgundy, musicians Saskia Coolen (recorder), Patrick Ayrton (harpsichord), and Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba) blend historical and modern styles. With three world premieres, NEO - French Baroque Music and New Compositions explores the fusion of past and present. This album is the latest in the trio’s series at Globe Records, following previous recordings dedicated to English, Italian, and Dutch music. The album is available in a hand-numbered limited edition of 750 copies.
NEO – Französische Barockmusik und neue Kompositionen vereint französische Barockmusik und moderne Kompositionen. Das Album enthält Werke von Jean-Féry Rebel, François Couperin und Marin Marais sowie neue Stücke von Calliope Tsoupaki, Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk und Torben Klaes. Die in Burgund aufgenommenen Musiker Saskia Coolen (Blockflöte), Patrick Ayr verbinden historische und moderne Stile.
Mit drei Weltpremieren erkundet NEO – Französische Barockmusik und neue Kompositionen die Verschmelzung von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Dieses Album ist das neueste in der Reihe des Trios bei Globe Records, nach früheren Aufnahmen, die der englischen, italienischen und niederländischen Musik gewidmet sind

Artist(s)

Saskia Coolen

In 2012, recorder player Saskia Coolen discovered by chance, in the Historical Museum in Den Briel, the head joint of an alto recorder, made by the instrument maker Engelbert Terton. She brought in the recorder builder and expert Jan Bouterse who thoroughly cleaned and restored the joint. He suggested that there might well be other playble recorders to be found in private collections. In the years since then, Saskia’s research has turned up six forgotten eighteenth-century recorders: five altos and a sopranino. On this album she plays these rediscovered recorders, together with gambist Rainer Zipperling and harpsichordist Patrick  Ayrton, in eighteenth-century music by De Fesch, Nozeman, Van Wassenaer and other contemporaries. In 2004 Saskia also played on historic recorders, from the  collection...
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In 2012, recorder player Saskia Coolen discovered by chance, in the Historical Museum in Den Briel, the head joint of an alto recorder, made by the instrument maker Engelbert Terton. She brought in the recorder builder and expert Jan Bouterse who thoroughly cleaned and restored the joint. He suggested that there might well be other playble recorders to be found in private collections. In the years since then, Saskia’s research has turned up six forgotten eighteenth-century recorders: five altos and a sopranino.
On this album she plays these rediscovered recorders, together with gambist Rainer Zipperling and harpsichordist Patrick Ayrton, in eighteenth-century music by De Fesch, Nozeman, Van Wassenaer and other contemporaries.
In 2004 Saskia also played on historic recorders, from the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, resulting in the album Recorders Recorded.

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Patrick Ayrton

Patrick Ayrton divides his time between performance on a variety of keyboards and his work as a conductor. He currently teaches thorough-bass, chamber music and improvisation at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. He has been a tutor for the European Union Baroque Orchestra audition courses and has given masterclasses at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Gnessin School in Moscow, the Yonsei University of Seoul, the Latvian Academy in Riga and the Summer School of the Salzburg Mozarteum. Patrick Ayrton is the central figure in a documentary film based on Tregian’s Ground, a prize-winning novel by the Swiss writer Anne Cuneo. His association and collaboration with the Dutch conductor Arie van Beek has led him to develop his skills as a music...
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Patrick Ayrton divides his time between performance on a variety of keyboards and his work as a conductor. He currently teaches thorough-bass, chamber music and improvisation at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. He has been a tutor for the European Union Baroque Orchestra audition courses and has given masterclasses at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Gnessin School in Moscow, the Yonsei University of Seoul, the Latvian Academy in Riga and the Summer School of the Salzburg Mozarteum. Patrick Ayrton is the central figure in a documentary film based on Tregian’s Ground, a prize-winning novel by the Swiss writer Anne Cuneo.
His association and collaboration with the Dutch conductor Arie van Beek has led him to develop his skills as a music director. In recent years, he has received invitations to conduct orchestras of repute such as the Orchestra of the Auvergne, the Chamber Academy of Potsdam, the Dijon-Bourgogne Orchestra, the Pasdeloup Orchestra in Paris, the Nordic Chamber Orchestra (Sweden), the Symphony Orchestra of Cannes, the Latvian Radio Choir, the Chamber Orchestra of Munich or the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. Patrick Ayrton is also the founder of the Les Inventions, a period ensemble which explores uncharted 18th century repertoire, such as the works of Joseph Touchemoulin and Thomas Linley. Les Inventions work in close partnership with acclaimed British vocal ensemble VOCES8.
Patrick Ayrton is also known for his pre-concert talks and is a regular lecturer. From 2004 to 2016, he was artistic director of the Bach en Combrailles Festival in France. In the season 2016-17, he conducted the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in a cycle of 6 concerts featuring Baroque, Classical and Neo-Classical repertoire.

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Composer(s)

François Couperin

François Couperin was a French composer. He is the most imporant and best known member of the Couperin family, which consisted of a whole dynasty of composers. Couperin was nicknamed 'Le Grand' (the Great), and is considered to be one of the most seminal composers of the Baroque period, especially in regard to his music for harpsichord. His keyboard music is characterised by a strong idiomatic nature, both in its personal style and in its close relation to the instrument's features.  Next to his harpsichord music, Couperin composed music for organ, vocal music, both sacred and secular, and chamber music. Moreover, he published several theoretical treatises on the playing techniques on the harpsichord and its role in the accompaniment of music. 
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François Couperin was a French composer. He is the most imporant and best known member of the Couperin family, which consisted of a whole dynasty of composers. Couperin was nicknamed 'Le Grand' (the Great), and is considered to be one of the most seminal composers of the Baroque period, especially in regard to his music for harpsichord. His keyboard music is characterised by a strong idiomatic nature, both in its personal style and in its close relation to the instrument's features.

Next to his harpsichord music, Couperin composed music for organ, vocal music, both sacred and secular, and chamber music. Moreover, he published several theoretical treatises on the playing techniques on the harpsichord and its role in the accompaniment of music.


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Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk

Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk was born in Amsterdam in 1955 to a Dutch-Indonesian family. He began to improvise music at a young age, and only later began to write down his musical thoughts. After theatrical projects with pop musicians (such as Debris, soli for singers, electric guitars, wind, brass and percussion, and the dance opera First Things First, for trios of dancers, singers, guitarists, and percussionists) he began more frequently to choose existing music as a point of departure in instrumental works for ensembles such as La Fontegara Amsterdam and Camerata Trajectina. This led to pieces for classical ensembles based on historical music, such as the piano quintet Tandernaken, the guitar quintet Over the Water (with Indonesian kroncong music), the...
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Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk was born in Amsterdam in 1955 to a Dutch-Indonesian family. He began to improvise music at a young age, and only later began to write down his musical thoughts. After theatrical projects with pop musicians (such as Debris, soli for singers, electric guitars, wind, brass and percussion, and the dance opera First Things First, for trios of dancers, singers, guitarists, and percussionists) he began more frequently to choose existing music as a point of departure in instrumental works for ensembles such as La Fontegara Amsterdam and Camerata Trajectina. This led to pieces for classical ensembles based on historical music, such as the piano quintet Tandernaken, the guitar quintet Over the Water (with Indonesian kroncong music), the piano trio De tout mon coeur (on Psalm 9 and old Dutch melodies), the violin sonata Deep River, based on the spiritual of that name, and the string quartet Moravian Souls which uses historic hymns of the Moravian Brothers (the Hernhutters). In doing so he strives for no other originality than that of a personal view of traditions. He deliberately avoids the most recent trends in modern classical music. For him the classical music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a model of the combination of all available styles that spark recognition among players and listeners. In the twentieth century that means primarily styles from jazz, popular music and folk music from Africa and South America. As a musicologist he specializes in the music of the twentieth century and teaches 20th and 21st century music at the Amsterdam Conservatory.

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Calliope Tsoupaki

Calliope Tsoupaki was born in 1963 in Piraeus, Greece. In 1988 she moved to the Netherlands to study composition with her idol Louis Andriessen. She has grown into one of the most talked-about composers in that country.  Calliope Tsoupaki makes music that has a mood of timelessness. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible. In her compositions she uses elements of early and contemporary music as well as the music of Greece and the Middle East. Combining these aspects, she skillfully creates a completely personal style.  Her music is praised for its melodic character, warm sound and emotional quality. To date her oeuvre consists of more than 100 works for diverse instrumentation and instruments from different cultures (qaunun, ney,...
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Calliope Tsoupaki was born in 1963 in Piraeus, Greece. In 1988 she moved to the Netherlands to study composition with her idol Louis Andriessen. She has grown into one of the most talked-about composers in that country. Calliope Tsoupaki makes music that has a mood of timelessness. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible. In her compositions she uses elements of early and contemporary music as well as the music of Greece and the Middle East. Combining these aspects, she skillfully creates a completely personal style. Her music is praised for its melodic character, warm sound and emotional quality. To date her oeuvre consists of more than 100 works for diverse instrumentation and instruments from different cultures (qaunun, ney, kemençe, hurdy gurdy, vielle, viola da gamba), from solo to orchestral works, choral music, dance, theatre, opera and multisensory projects. She has developed into one of the defining composers of Dutch musical life, collaborating with, among others, Eric Vloeimans, Pierre Audi, Paul Koek, Jordi Savall, Kees Boeke, Frances-Marie Uitti and ensembles including the Metropole Orchestra, Netherlands Bach Society, Ensemble Tetraktys, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, Ergon Ensemble and Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Overwhelming successes include her operas Fortress Europe and Mariken in the Garden of Delights, St. Luke Passion, song cycle Face of Love for singer Nena Venetsanou, oratorio Oidipous, Narcissus (a play for music and scent), Maria for the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the chamber operas Dark (about Joan of Arc, libretto Edzard Mik), Vita Nova (based on Dante's book of the same title) and the string quartet Triptychon for the DoelenKwartet.
Calliope Tsoupaki teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

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01.
Les Caractères de la Danse
09:08
(Jean-Féry Rebel) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
02.
For a time never to come
10:00
(Calliope Tsoupaki) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
03.
Concert royaux No. 4 in E Minor: Prélude (Gravement)
01:52
(François Couperin) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
04.
Concert royaux No. 4 in E Minor: Allemande (Légèrement)
01:30
(François Couperin) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
05.
Concert royaux No. 4 in E Minor: Courante françoise (Galamment)
02:00
(François Couperin) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
06.
Concert royaux No. 4 in E Minor: Couranta à l'italienne (Gayement. Pointé-coulé)
02:54
(François Couperin) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
07.
Concert royaux No. 4 in E Minor: Sarabande (Très tendrement)
02:53
(François Couperin) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
08.
Concert royaux No. 4 in E Minor: Rigaudon (Légèrement, et marqué)
01:34
(François Couperin) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
09.
Concert royaux No. 4 in E Minor: Forlane (Rondeau. Gayement)
02:47
(François Couperin) Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen, Patrick Ayrton
10.
L’Europe des Amants: Ouverture à Deux
04:08
(Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
11.
L’Europe des Amants: Querelle des Soupçons
04:06
(Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
12.
L’Europe des Amants: Tambourin Lointain
04:08
(Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
13.
L’Europe des Amants: Les Caractères Imprévus
04:12
(Willem Wander van Nieuwkerk) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
14.
Suite I en mi mineur: Ouverture. Lentement - Vite - Lentement
04:38
(Torben Klaes) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
15.
Suite I en mi mineur: Allemande Grave
02:04
(Torben Klaes) Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen, Patrick Ayrton
16.
Suite I en mi mineur: Courante
01:38
(Torben Klaes) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
17.
Suite I en mi mineur: Sarabande. Très Gravement
03:12
(Torben Klaes) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
18.
Suite I en mi mineur: Gavotte en Rondeau
03:25
(Torben Klaes) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
19.
Suite I en mi mineur: Passacaille
05:43
(Torben Klaes) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
20.
Suite I en mi mineur: Gigue à l’anglaise
01:38
(Torben Klaes) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
21.
La Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont à Paris
08:02
(Marin Marais) Patrick Ayrton, Rainer Zipperling, Saskia Coolen
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