This collection of seven recordings offers a fragmentary insight into the riches of the musical repertory produced or widely known in the Low Countries between the ends of the 16th and 18th centuries. From 1586, this region was the setting of the civil and religious Eighty Years’ War, which ended with a political and confessional split in the country. The southern Netherlands, whose territory corresponded to present-day Belgium, Luxembourg and the north of France, remained under Spanish control (then Austrian control from 1713) and faithful to Catholicism, whilst in the north (present-day Netherlands), the new Dutch Republic adopted Calvinism as the official faith, whilst nonetheless tolerating the coexistence of other confessions under certain conditions. This characteristic of the northern territory led to a burgeoning of diverse musical forms, to which the musical works of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621), explored broadly in this series of recordings, bear emblematic witness. In addition to two recordings almost exclusively devoted to this ‘Orpheus of Amsterdam’, as his contemporaries nicknamed him, the other five recordings explore a variety of musical works, often brimming with foreign influences, written by composers of renown, but also by little-known figures whom these discs seek to return to the fold.

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低地国家的音乐（c.1580–c.1780）

这七张唱片的收集提供了对16世纪至18世纪末低谷地区生产或广为人知的音乐曲目丰富的零碎见解。从1586年开始，该地区成为内战和宗教八十年战争的爆发地，最终以该国的政治和悔分裂而告终。荷兰南部的领土对应于今天的比利时，卢森堡和法国北部，但仍由西班牙控制（1713年从奥地利控制）并忠于天主教，而北部（今天的荷兰）为新荷兰人共和国以加尔文主义为官方信仰，但在某些条件下仍容忍其他供认的并存。北部地区的这一特征导致了各种音乐形式的兴起，Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck（1562–1621）的音乐作品在该系列唱片中进行了广泛的探索，并以此为标志性的见证。除了两张唱片几乎专门用于这个“阿姆斯特丹的奥菲斯”（同时代人昵称他）之外，其他五张唱片还探索了由著名作曲家创作的各种音乐作品，这些作品常常充满外国影响，但很少有人这些唱片试图找回那些已知人物。