THE PASSION OF REASON Five centuries of ‘scientific’ music
GCD P31102. 2 CDs
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Sour Cream: Frans Brüggen, recorders Kees Boeke, recorders & viola da gamba Walter van Hauwe, recorders withIsabel Álvarez, voice & Toyohiko Satoh, lutes
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Total playing time: 55:22 + 59:32 Recorded in June 1993 and July 1994 by Valter Neri and Dick van Schuppen Produced by Sieuwert Verster and Kees Boeke Executive producers: Sieuwert Verster, Carlos Céster Booklet text: Kees BoekeEnglish - Français
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THE PASSION OF REASON
CD I
01 Guillaume de Machaut: Ma fin est mon commencement 02 Guillaume de Machaut: Hoquetus David 03 Guillaume Machaut: Sanz cuer m’en vois 04 Solage: Fumeux, fume par fumee 05 Antoine Brumel: Tandernack 06 Thomas Preston: Upon La Mi Re 07 William Cornysh: Fa La Sol 08 William Cornysh: Catholicon a 09 William Cornysh: Catholicon b 10 Robert Fayrfax: That was my woe 11 Christopher Tye: Sit fast 12 John Bedyngham: Salva Jesu 13 Anonymous (Baldwin Ms.): Kyrie14 Anonymous (Baldwin Ms.): Kyrie a
CD II
01 Anonymous (Baldwin Ms.): Kyrie b 02 Anonymous (Baldwin Ms.): Kyrie 03 Nathaniel Giles: Salvator Mundi 04 Thomas Preston: O Lux 05 William Newark: The farther I go 06 Heinrich Isaac: Fortuna desperata 07 Heinrich Isaac: La Morra 08 Heinrich Isaac: Si dormiero 09 Johann Walter: Canon 10 Clément Jannequin: L’Alouette 11 Trebor: En seumeillant 12 Johann Sebastian Bach / Kees Boeke: Eclipse 13 Johann Sebastian Bach: 4 Goldberg-Canons 14 Johann Sebastian Bach: Canon per augmentationem
About this CD
In June 1993 the three founding members of Sour Cream, the avant-garde recorder trio created originally in 1972, got together again in order to make a new recording: the ensuing double disc album since became the stuff of legend. Frans Brüggen, Kees Boeke and Walter van Hauwe – joined by Isabel Álvarez (voice) and Toyohiko Satoh (lutes) – went into the studio with a programme called The Passion of Reason which made a journey through music with a scientific slant to it, influenced by the concept of the mediaeval quadrivium or the convergence of music, arithmetic, astronomy and geometry.
With pieces by composers ranging across five centuries, from Guillaume de Machaut to JS Bach, by way of Solage, William Cornysh and Heinrich Isaac, together with the mysterious repertory from the Baldwin manuscript, the members of Sour Cream raised a fascinating and hypnotic edifice in sound, taking the listener back to the speculative world of Hermetic philosophy and alchemy.
Initially released on the Attacca label by Sieuwert Verster (the co-founder of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and inseparable colleague of Frans Brüggen), The Passion of Reason was reissued by Glossa in 1997. After several years of the album being out of stock, we are pleased now to be able to bring this recording, timeless like so few others, back into our catalogue.