The average listener may suspect that two discs of early seventeenth century Dutch organ music will be a long haul, but this release from American organist Jonathan Dimmock will hold the interest even of those whose listening lies mostly outside the early Baroque. Among American early music releases, this one is of unusual depth and beauty. Although nobody in Sweelinck's time would have sat down and listened to two hours of organ music, Dimmock uses his lengthy program to get across a sense of the exhaustive, totalizing ...
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The average listener may suspect that two discs of early seventeenth century Dutch organ music will be a long haul, but this release from American organist Jonathan Dimmock will hold the interest even of those whose listening lies mostly outside the early Baroque. Among American early music releases, this one is of unusual depth and beauty. Although nobody in Sweelinck's time would have sat down and listened to two hours of organ music, Dimmock uses his lengthy program to get across a sense of the exhaustive, totalizing quality in Sweelinck's output,-- a quality that, ultimately, found an echo in the work of Bach. He traverses all the major genres of Sweelinck's keyboard music, which extended from church music to dances, variations, teaching pieces, works based on vocal models, and several genres borrowed from British keyboard music, including abstract experiments such as chromatic fantasias and the ubiquitous Pavana Lachrymae. Dimmock gets across the gnarly complexity, quite akin to Bach's, with which...
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Add this copy of Master of the Dutch Renaissance to cart. $39.92, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Loft Recordings.
