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Verrijt: Flammae Divinae, Op. 5; Motets

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Composer
Jan Baptist Verrijt
Artist
The Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Oct 10, 2025
Catalog #
BRI97007
UPC
5028421970073

About

North and South The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, the 17th century, may have been full of splendour in the fields of trade, painting and literature, but in music the situation was far from rosy. The epicentre of musical innovation lay in Italy, whose composers were admired as supreme across Europe. While this will have hurt the pride of composers in Northern Europe and elsewhere, who disputed this supremacy publicly, in private most of them sought to benefit from their Mediterranean contemporaries, studying the latest Italian music or apprenticing themselves to Italian masters. In the Netherlands, the style of Monteverdi and other Italian composers had a profound influence on the music of Jan Baptist Verrijt, who was probably born around 1600 in Oirschot and died in Rotterdam in 1650. Together with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Verrijt is perhaps the most important Dutch composer of the 17th century, an assessment based his only surviving opus: the Flammae divinae, Op.5. It consists of 6 two-part and 12 three-part motets along with 2 three-part Mass settings. The work is believed to have been intended for use both in Roman Catholic churches in the Southern Netherlands and in clandestine Roman Catholic churches in the predominantly protestant Republic. The high level of vocal technique demanded by Verrijt would seem at first to exclude the possibility of performance by non-professional singers. However, it's known that Verrijt's Opp. 4 & 5 could be found in the library of Groningen's collegium musicum, a group consisting almost entirely of amateur musicians. In the Flammae divinae Verrijt displays consummate mastery in combining the liveliness of the new, Italian stile concertato with the polyphonic techniques of the old Franco-Flemish school. The music sounds imaginative and dramatic, but is simultaneously balanced and controlled. Like Claudio Monteverdi and Alessandro Grandi, for example, Verrijt enlivens his complex multi-part church music with techniques borrowed from the madrigal and from opera. For this reason, Verrijt's Opus 5 is not only of interest as an unusual expression of Roman Catholic culture in the northern Netherlands, but also as a musically intriguing opus on an international level. Other information: - Recorded May 2000, Rotterdam - Trilingual Booklet in English, Dutch and German contains liner notes by Kees Vlaardingerbroek - Jan Baptist Verrijt was, together with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, perhaps the most important Dutch composer of the seventeenth century. His most important surviving work, Flammae divinae, Opus 5, consists of six two-part and twelve three-part motets along with two three-part settings for Mass, and was published in the period when Verrijt was employed as an organist by the Great Church of St Laurens in Rotterdam (1644-50). - In this work Verrijt displays consummate mastery in combining the liveliness of the new Italian stile concertato with the polyphonic techniques of the old Franco-Flemish school. The music sounds imaginative and dramatic, but is simultaneously balanced and controlled. Like Claudia Monteverdi Verrijt enlivens his complex multi-part church music with techniques borrowed from the madrigal and from opera, employing the old imitative techniques in a new way to achieve a strong emotional effect. - Performed by one of the most prominent and pioneering Early Music vocal ensembles of the 20-th century, The Consort of Musicke, featuring Emma Kirkby, and directed by Anthony Rooley. - A reissue from the NM Classics label, the label for music from The Netherlands.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. O Mediatrix Domina 03:48
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. O Mediatrix Domina
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  2. 2 No. 2. In Te Domine speravi 03:58
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. In Te Domine speravi
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  3. 3 No. 3. Quae habitas in hortis 02:30
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Quae habitas in hortis
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  4. 4 No. 4. Currite, pastores 04:04
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Currite, pastores
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  5. 5 No. 5. Vulnera cor meum 03:54
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Vulnera cor meum
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  6. 6 No. 6. Domine, ne in furore tuo 04:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Domine, ne in furore tuo
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  7. 7 No. 7. O dulcis amor 03:10
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. O dulcis amor
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  8. 8 No. 8. Ad te, dulcissime Iesu 03:06
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Ad te, dulcissime Iesu
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  9. 9 No. 9. Ave, dulcis Iesu 03:01
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. Ave, dulcis Iesu
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  10. 10 No. 10. Ah, horrida bella 03:06
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. Ah, horrida bella
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  11. 11 No. 11. Vulnerasti cor meum 02:30
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11. Vulnerasti cor meum
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  12. 12 No. 12. O Iesu mi, dulcissime spes 02:52
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12. O Iesu mi, dulcissime spes
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  13. 13 No. 13. Fili, ego Salomon 04:24
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 13. Fili, ego Salomon
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  14. 14 No. 14. Rogo te, dulcissime Domine Iesu Christe 03:03
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 14. Rogo te, dulcissime Domine Iesu Christe
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  15. 15 No. 15. Cantate Domino canticum novum 02:02
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 15. Cantate Domino canticum novum
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  16. 16 No. 16. Salve mi Iesu 05:23
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 16. Salve mi Iesu
    Duration
    05:23
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  17. 17 No. 17. O Iesu, splendor aeternae gloriae 04:18
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 17. O Iesu, splendor aeternae gloriae
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley
  18. 18 No. 18. In nomine Iesu 03:24
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 18. In nomine Iesu
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Jan Baptist Verrijt
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Consort of Musicke
    Conductor
    Anthony Rooley