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Today's program focuses on the many talented composers to come from the Low Countries, including works by Huygens, Wassenaer, and Reincken, plus the biggest name of them all among Dutch composers: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

  • Jacob van Eyck: Excusemoy (Can she excuse). Performed by Marion Verbruggen, recorder. 
  • Clemens non Papa: Godt es mijn licht, De lustelijke mey, Te schepe waert gaan. Performed by Capilla Flamenca. 
  • Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Concerto Armonico No. 1. Performed by The Aradia Ensemble. 
  • Constantijn Huygens: Songs from Pathodia sacra et profana (1647): Se la doglia e'l martire, Sospir che del bel petto, Multi dicunt animae meae, Domine ne in furore tuo. Performed by Anne Grimm, soprano; Wilke te Brummelstroete, mezzo-soprano; Nico van der Meel, tenor; Peter Kooij, bass; Leo van Doeselaar, organ; Siebe Henstra, harpsichord; Mike Fentross, theorbo; Mieneke van der Velden, viola da gamba. 
  • Johann Adam Reincken: Partita No. 1. Performed by The Purcell Quartet, and harpsichordist Robert Woolley. 
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Diligam te Domine, and In te Domine Speravi. Performed by the Gesualdo Consort of Amsterdam. 
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Ons is gheboren een kindekijn (Puer nobis nascitur). Performed by Gustav Leonhardt at the organ of Grote of St. Jakobskerk, the Hague.  
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