The surviving musical edition of Dutch Golden Age "Renaissance Man", Constantijn Huygens receives a fresh new recording from a singer who has become a connoisseur of vocal music from the seventeenth century: Cyril Auvity. The remarkable Huygens, alive for much of that century, was a poet, composer and musician whose "day job" was as a diplomat working for the Princes of Orange and who was an assiduous correspondent with leading thinkers such as Descartes, Rubens and Corneille. Huygens' "Pathodia sacra et profana" encompasses a collection of songs in Italian, French and Latin whose simplicity belies the complexity of the emotions carried within them. Those emotions are admirably conveyed by a singer whose inquisitive musical intellect takes him down less frequented paths and whose voice is rich and coloured and employed with a mastery of line. Reflecting the contemporary performances of such works by wealthy amateurs in the Dutch Republic, Myriam Rignol plays viola da gamba whilst Marie van Rhijn plays harpsichord, positive organ and the enigmatic Lautenwerck (a luteharpsichord). Each of these instruments is additionally given an opportunity to be heard in solo music from Huygens' time.

Tracklist:

Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 22, Sospir Che Del Bel Petto
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 23, Temer Donna Non Dei
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 6, Dilaverunt Super Me
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 39, Ne Crains Point Le Serein
Sarabande "Jeunes Zéphirs" (Arr. J. D'anglebert)
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 5, Avertisti Faciem
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 33, Que Ferons-Nous
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 12, In Quo Corriget
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 16, Laetatus Sum
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 28, Già Ti Chiesi Un Sospir
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 4, Domine Deus Meus
Allemande
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 29, A Dispetto De' Venti
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 30, Che Rumore Sento Fuore?
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 32, Va, Donna Ingrata
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 9, Quare Tristis Es
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 35, Vous Me L’aviez Bien Dit
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 17, De Profundis Clamavi
Passacaille In A Minor (Arr. For Positive Organ)
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 38, J'ai Veu Le Point Du Jour
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 37, Tu Te Trompes, Phillis
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 1, Multi Dicunt Animae Meae
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 26, Orsa Bella E Crudele
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 34, Graves Tesmoins De Mes Délices
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 27, Con La Candida Man
Pathodia Sacra Et Profana (Excerpts): No. 36, Quoy? Clorinde, Tu Pars
Toccata No. 8 In E Minor, Fbwv 108 (Arr. For Lute-Harpsichord)

UPC: 8424562236035
Label: Glossa
Release Date: 7.17.20
Format: CD

Huygens / Auvity / Rignols - Pathodia Sacra E Profana (CD)