Always About Love's opening track�J'ay�pris�amours a ma devise (I have chosen love as my device) is the motto for the album with songs about longing and happiness, sadness and saying farewell. BRISK and Amaryllis�Dieltiens�have created a�programme�with music from�various different�styles and periods on these timeless themes. The poetry is the starting point for the various sections. The instrumental pieces are also all connected to this content, and could be listened to as instrumental poetry, as songs without words. Alongside 16th and 17th century music from England, France and Germany, the sound of more recent times should not be lacking on this album. The quartet has arranged versions by Cecil Sharp and Benjamin Britten of the English folksong O�Waly�Waly. "Love is handsome, love is kind", but love may fade away like the morning dew. Dawn is also used as a metaphor for the beloved in Max Knigge's Ochtendbede, based on a sonnet by Jacques Perk. Hans�Koolmees�has written two songs about earthly and heavenly love, based on texts by the medieval mystic Hadewijch and the modern Flemish poet Eva Cox, and finally Walther�Stuhlmacher�has composed a wordless farewell. However different these worlds may�seem,�it is always all about love!

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Thesauri inventio 1 & 2 is in fact two albums in one digipack, one featuring music from the Di Martinelli Music Collection and other from the Kromer� Music Collection. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, numerous music compilations appeared that gather together handwritten copies. Both archives contain a surprisingly large amount of repertoire for violin and continuo, some of which remains unexplored up to the present day. Antoinette's previous albums for Globe Records, Phantasia Musica (GLO 5265), Pieter Hellendaal (GLO 5271) and Johann Fischer (GLO 5274) have earned international critical acclaim.

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The recent discovery of Telemann's Fantasias for viola da gamba solo has inspired many musicians to study and perform these masterpieces. Rainer Zipperling and his friends Saskia Coolen (recorder) and the newly appointed musical director of the Netherlands Bach Society Shunske Sato (violin) decided to release an extensive 3-album set containing all the solo Fantasias Telemann wrote for their instruments. This release is a hand numbered limited edition of 1000 copies. Rainer Zipperling studied viola da gamba and cello at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Finishing his studies in 1980 he joined groups such as the Orchestra of the 18th century, La Petite Bande, the Ricercar Consort and Camerata K�ln. Today he is highly regarded as a teacher at the Cologne Conservatory of Music and Dance and the Lemmensinstitut in Leuven, Belgium. Saskia Coolen studied the recorder with Kees Boeke and Walter van Hauwe at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, as well as musicology at the University of Utrecht. For many years, she has been a member of La Fontegara and Camerata Trajectina, which have given numerous concerts at home and abroad. Shunske Sato is a violinist known for his distinctive and engaging performances on both modern and historical instruments. Equally in demand as concertmaster, chamber musician, soloist and teacher, the diversity of his activities reflect his versatile and resourceful nature.

In the spring of 2017 Saskia Coolen stayed as an artist-in-residence for almost 7 weeks in the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon. Her original plan to improve her old-style improvisation skills was put in a different light by the remark: we don't expect anything from you, take the time and see what happens. "This is a gift of time." She started 'playing' and experimenting. New ideas germinated there. New material in old forms and existing music in new forms. Inspired by early music, the shakuhachi, beat boxes, minimal music, playing with Lego and the nature of Oregon. So everything. Back in the Netherlands, people in her Zen meditation group sometimes listened to her improvisations and decided that an album should be made. Their silent attentive presence at the recordings was essential. Visual artist Margriet Oomen made drawings inspired by the music for this album. A number of these drawings are folded into the cover as loose Leporellos.

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