Glosa

Since its formation in 2015, Orpheus Baroque has grown into an important part of the capital city’s music offering, serving as a meeting place for orchestra members and some of Sweden’s foremost freelance Baroque musicians. During the vignette Orpheus Treasure Trove, we hear the ensemble in a smaller format for chamber music.

Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is an accomplished virtuoso of the cello and the viola da gamba. She received her diploma in cello performance from Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music, and earned her soloist diploma at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague as a specialist in historically informed performance practices. She won prizes at the Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini in Brescia in 1995 and the Concours International Musica Antiqua in Bruges in 1996. Brinkmann appears with several prominent early music ensembles, such as the Bach Collegium Japan, La Petite Bande, Concerto Copenhagen, Apollo's Fire, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Barokksolistene, and the Theatre of Voices, and she has performed with them on many recordings. In 2016, Brinkmann released an album of 17th and 18th century cello music, Cello Rising – featuring works by Domenico Galli, Giovanni Battiste Degli Antonii, Domenico Gabrieli, Georg Philipp Telemann, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, and Luigi Boccherini – where she performed with harpsichordist Björn Gäfvert and Baroque guitarist Karl Nyhlin. Brinkmann teaches at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and she performs with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and the Drottningholm Slottsteater. She has recorded for the Swedish label BIS.

Antonio de Cabezón, “The Spanish Bach”, was among the most important composers of his time and the first major Iberian keyboard composer. Blind from childhood he was a musician at the court of Charles the V since 1526. HR Recordings is proud to present the complete recording of his keyboard music in several volumes performed by Javier Jiménez at some of the most beautiful Spanish historical organs.

Antonio Ruiz-Pipó was a versatile musician whose compositions display both Andalusian and Parisian influences as well as reflecting his own life story of non-conformism coupled with an infinite love for humanity. This programme reveals his inclination towards South American music, and in the duets Homenaje a Villa-Lobos and the quartet Américas he looks towards the habanera and samba (as well as a little boogie-woogie). Ancient sounds from a faraway land echo in the Homenaje a Antonio de Cabezón, while Cuatro para Cuatro and A Sevilla are pure Andalusian Ruiz-Pipó in terms of their colours, rhythms and narrative.

The French pianist MÉLODIE GIMARD composed, produced & arranged her debut album NUMEN. On her original project she blends flamenco with jazz and classical music with a contemporary approach.

The program chosen for this album shows a selection of works of Iberian music from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries that, with the title “Españoleta”, addresses the most outstanding musical forms and composers in Renaissance and Baroque Spain, also exploiting the sound resources offered by the Iberian organ in its most original version: a short octave keyboard, split register and battle trumpeting. The program opens with the entrance of clarines before playing songs, an anonymous work collected by Martín i Coll that serves as an exordium for the rest of the works.

Antonio de Cabezón, “The Spanish Bach”, was among the most important composers of his time and the first major Iberian keyboard composer. Blind from childhood he was a musician at the court of Charles the V since 1526. HR Recordings is proud to present the complete recording of his keyboard music in several volumes performed by Javier Jiménez at some of the most beautiful Spanish historical organs.