Circus Dinogad Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross and Dudok Quartet Amsterdam

• English traditional: I will give my love an apple:
• 1 English traditional: I will give my love an apple 03:16
• Jean-Luc Ponty (b. 1942): Jig:
• 2 Ponty: Jig 03:04
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695): Music for a While:
• 3 Purcell: Music for a While 05:00
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Chanson écossaise:
• 4 Ravel: Chanson écossaise 02:40
• Old Welsh lullaby (8th century): Peis Dinogad:
• 5 lullaby: Peis Dinogad 04:23
• Jarmo Romppanen: Polska nr. 745:
• 6 Romppanen: Polska nr. 745 01:56
• David Faber (b. 1985): Seven Deadly Sins I Gluttony:
• 7 Faber: Seven Deadly Sins I Gluttony 01:03
• Hilary Summers (b. 1964): Seven Deadly Sins II Pride:
• 8 Summers: Seven Deadly Sins II Pride 00:30
• Henry Purcell: Sweeter than roses:
• 9 Purcell: Sweeter than roses 04:37
• Hilary Summers: Seven Deadly Sins III Avarice:
• 10 Summers: Seven Deadly Sins III Avarice 00:53
• Maarten Ornstein (b. 1967): Seven Deadly Sins IV Wrath:
• 11 Ornstein: Seven Deadly Sins IV Wrath 00:48
• Mike Fentross (b. 1962): 77 Tears:
• 12 Fentross: 77 Tears 01:38
• Marie-Louise de Jong (b. 1992): Seven Deadly Sins V Lust; The Cuckold’s lament:
• 13 Jong: Seven Deadly Sins V Lust; The Cuckold’s lament 00:40
• Marleen Wester (b. 1984): Seven Deadly Sins VI Sloth:
• 14 Wester: Seven Deadly Sins VI Sloth 00:40
• Judith van Driel (b. 1985): Seven Deadly Sins VII Envy :
• 15 Driel: Seven Deadly Sins VII Envy 00:55
• Welsh folk song (17th century, collected in 1937): Seven Deadly Sins VII Envy:
• 16 song: Ar Lan y môr 02:07
• Maarten Ornstein: How do I loathe thee:
• 17 Ornstein: How do I loathe thee 02:05
• William Byrd (1540 - 1623): Ye Sacred Muses:
• 18 Byrd: Ye Sacred Muses 04:24
• Traditional Irish air (19th century): My Lagan Love:
• 19 air: My Lagan Love 04:49
• Judith van Driel: Hubristic Hornpipe:
• 20 Driel: Hubristic Hornpipe 01:04
• John Dowland (1563 - 1626): In darkness let me dwell:
• 21 Dowland: In darkness let me dwell 03:50
• Total Runtime 50:22

Info for Circus Dinogad

Willkommen in der bezaubernden Welt des Circus Dinogad, in der die walisische Altistin Hilary Summers, das niederländische Theorbe- und Bassklarinetten-Duo Mike Fentross & Maarten Ornstein und das Dudok Quartett Amsterdam in einer Fusion musikalischer Traditionen aufeinandertreffen.

Das 2022 in Amsterdam gegründete Ensemble nimmt Sie mit auf eine Reise durch alte Melodien, neu interpretierte Klassiker und innovative Eigenkompositionen, die spielerisch in das bodenlose Meer menschlicher Emotionen eintauchen. Die ersten Schritte dieser neuen Gruppe erkundeten mehr oder weniger bekannte Gebiete, nämlich die Grenzen zwischen Barock, Renaissance, traditioneller und improvisierter Musik. Den Höhepunkt des Albums bilden die Seven Deadly Sins: sieben völlig neue Kompositionen, die von den einzelnen Musikern geschrieben wurden und sich nahtlos in das Gewebe des Albums einfügen. Mit dieser innovativen Ergänzung entwickelte sich das Wesen des Ensembles weiter, indem es sich von den traditionellen stilistischen Grenzen löste und sich auf kühne musikalische Eskapaden einließ.

Hilary Summers, Altstimme
Maarten Ornstein, Bassklarinette
Mike Fentross, Theorbe, Vihuela
Dudok Quartett Amsterdam

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
is one of the most versatile and appealing string quartets of this time. The quartet’s aim is to share the heart of music through captivating performances and an open approach of the audience.

In June of 2013, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam has finished their studies at the Dutch String Quartet Academy with highest distinction. In November of 2014 the Dudok Quartet was awarded the Kersjesprize, an award annually given to an ensemble of exceptional talent in the Dutch chamber music scene. The quartet furthermore received top prizes in various international string quartet competitions in Bordeaux (Concours international quatuor à cordes), Weimar (Internationaler Joseph Joachim Kammermusikwettbewerb), The Netherlands (Charles Hennen Competition/Orlando Competition) and Poland (Radom first international string quartet competition)

The members of the quartet first met in the Ricciotti Ensemble, a Dutch street symphony orchestra. The ensemble was founded in 2009. During the first two years since then, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam studied with the Alban Berg Quartett at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. After that, they studied with Marc Danel at the Dutch String Quartet Academy. Further important artistic impulses came from Eberhard Feltz, Peter Cropper (Lindsay Quartet), Luc-Marie Aguera (Quatuor Ysaÿe) and Stefan Metz.

Many well-known contemporary classical composers, such as Kaija Saariaho, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Calliope Tsoupaki and Max Knigge worked with the quartet on their music. In 2014, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam has signed for several recordings with Resonus Classics, the world’s first solely digital classical music label. Both their first two albums, combining string quartet core repertoire by Haydn and Mozart with both string quartets by György Ligeti and world premieres of the ensembles own arrangements, have been received with unanimous praise in international press reviews including an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine. 2016 saw the premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Only the Sound remains, featuring the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam in a leading role accompanying the world-renowned countertenor Philippe Jaroussky.

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam has performed with many renowned guest musicians such as recorder player Erik Bosgraaf, pianists Alexei Lubimov, Hannes Minnaar, Ralph van Raat and Daria van den Bercken, and cellists Pieter Wispelwey, Dmitri Ferschtman and Quirine Viersen. The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam performed at many prestigious festivals and venues throughout Europe and in the United States of America, such as the Grachten Festival, the Orlando Festival, Festival Quatuors à Bordeaux and Festival Jeunes Talents (France), Carinthischer Sommer and the Vienna Konzerthaus (Austria), Haydn Festival Fertöd (Hungary), Davos Festival (Switzerland), the Linari Classic Festival (Italy) and the Léon Chamber Music Festival and Festival Música en Segura (Spain), Winter Chamber Music Festival (Il, USA)

Willem Marinus Dudok (1884 – 1974) was a famous Dutch architect. He was also a great lover of music: he came from a musical family and composed music in his spare time. “I owe more to composers than I owe to any architect”, he wrote. “I feel deeply the common core of music and architecture: after all, they both derive their value from the right proportions.”

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