Circus Dinogad Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross and Dudok Quartet Amsterdam

• English traditional: I will give my love an apple:
• 1English traditional: I will give my love an apple03:16
• Jean-Luc Ponty (b. 1942): Jig:
• 2Ponty: Jig03:04
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695): Music for a While:
• 3Purcell: Music for a While05:00
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Chanson écossaise:
• 4Ravel: Chanson écossaise02:40
• Old Welsh lullaby (8th century): Peis Dinogad:
• 5lullaby: Peis Dinogad04:23
• Jarmo Romppanen: Polska nr. 745:
• 6Romppanen: Polska nr. 74501:56
• David Faber (b. 1985): Seven Deadly Sins I Gluttony:
• 7Faber: Seven Deadly Sins I Gluttony01:03
• Hilary Summers (b. 1964): Seven Deadly Sins II Pride:
• 8Summers: Seven Deadly Sins II Pride00:30
• Henry Purcell: Sweeter than roses:
• 9Purcell: Sweeter than roses04:37
• Hilary Summers: Seven Deadly Sins III Avarice:
• 10Summers: Seven Deadly Sins III Avarice 00:53
• Maarten Ornstein (b. 1967): Seven Deadly Sins IV Wrath:
• 11Ornstein: Seven Deadly Sins IV Wrath00:48
• Mike Fentross (b. 1962): 77 Tears:
• 12Fentross: 77 Tears 01:38
• Marie-Louise de Jong (b. 1992): Seven Deadly Sins V Lust; The Cuckold’s lament:
• 13Jong: Seven Deadly Sins V Lust; The Cuckold’s lament 00:40
• Marleen Wester (b. 1984): Seven Deadly Sins VI Sloth:
• 14Wester: Seven Deadly Sins VI Sloth00:40
• Judith van Driel (b. 1985): Seven Deadly Sins VII Envy :
• 15Driel: Seven Deadly Sins VII Envy 00:55
• Welsh folk song (17th century, collected in 1937): Seven Deadly Sins VII Envy:
• 16song: Ar Lan y môr02:07
• Maarten Ornstein: How do I loathe thee:
• 17Ornstein: How do I loathe thee02:05
• William Byrd (1540 - 1623): Ye Sacred Muses:
• 18Byrd: Ye Sacred Muses04:24
• Traditional Irish air (19th century): My Lagan Love:
• 19air: My Lagan Love04:49
• Judith van Driel: Hubristic Hornpipe:
• 20Driel: Hubristic Hornpipe01:04
• John Dowland (1563 - 1626): In darkness let me dwell:
• 21Dowland: In darkness let me dwell03:50
• Total Runtime50:22

Info for Circus Dinogad

Welcome to the bewitching world of Circus Dinogad in which Welsh contralto Hilary Summers, the Dutch theorbo & bass clarinet duo Mike Fentross & Maarten Ornstein and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam converge in a fusion of musical traditions.

Formed in Amsterdam in 2022, this new ensemble's journey takes you through ancient melodies, re-imagined classics, and innovative original compositions that playfully plunge into the bottomless sea of human emotions. The first steps of this new group explored more or less familiar areas, namely the boundaries between baroque, renaissance, traditional and improvised music. The culmination of the album comes in the shape of the Seven Deadly Sins: seven completely new compositions, written by the individual musicians woven seamlessly into the fabric of the album. With this innovative addition, the ensemble's essence evolved, shedding traditional stylistic confines and boldly embarking on audacious musical escapades.

Hilary Summers, contralto
Maarten Ornstein, bass clarinet
Mike Fentross, theorbo, vihuela
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
is one of the most versatile and appealing string quartets of this time. The quartet’s aim is to share the heart of music through captivating performances and an open approach of the audience.

In June of 2013, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam has finished their studies at the Dutch String Quartet Academy with highest distinction. In November of 2014 the Dudok Quartet was awarded the Kersjesprize, an award annually given to an ensemble of exceptional talent in the Dutch chamber music scene. The quartet furthermore received top prizes in various international string quartet competitions in Bordeaux (Concours international quatuor à cordes), Weimar (Internationaler Joseph Joachim Kammermusikwettbewerb), The Netherlands (Charles Hennen Competition/Orlando Competition) and Poland (Radom first international string quartet competition)

The members of the quartet first met in the Ricciotti Ensemble, a Dutch street symphony orchestra. The ensemble was founded in 2009. During the first two years since then, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam studied with the Alban Berg Quartett at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. After that, they studied with Marc Danel at the Dutch String Quartet Academy. Further important artistic impulses came from Eberhard Feltz, Peter Cropper (Lindsay Quartet), Luc-Marie Aguera (Quatuor Ysaÿe) and Stefan Metz.

Many well-known contemporary classical composers, such as Kaija Saariaho, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Calliope Tsoupaki and Max Knigge worked with the quartet on their music. In 2014, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam has signed for several recordings with Resonus Classics, the world’s first solely digital classical music label. Both their first two albums, combining string quartet core repertoire by Haydn and Mozart with both string quartets by György Ligeti and world premieres of the ensembles own arrangements, have been received with unanimous praise in international press reviews including an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine. 2016 saw the premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Only the Sound remains, featuring the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam in a leading role accompanying the world-renowned countertenor Philippe Jaroussky.

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam has performed with many renowned guest musicians such as recorder player Erik Bosgraaf, pianists Alexei Lubimov, Hannes Minnaar, Ralph van Raat and Daria van den Bercken, and cellists Pieter Wispelwey, Dmitri Ferschtman and Quirine Viersen. The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam performed at many prestigious festivals and venues throughout Europe and in the United States of America, such as the Grachten Festival, the Orlando Festival, Festival Quatuors à Bordeaux and Festival Jeunes Talents (France), Carinthischer Sommer and the Vienna Konzerthaus (Austria), Haydn Festival Fertöd (Hungary), Davos Festival (Switzerland), the Linari Classic Festival (Italy) and the Léon Chamber Music Festival and Festival Música en Segura (Spain), Winter Chamber Music Festival (Il, USA)

Willem Marinus Dudok (1884 – 1974) was a famous Dutch architect. He was also a great lover of music: he came from a musical family and composed music in his spare time. “I owe more to composers than I owe to any architect”, he wrote. “I feel deeply the common core of music and architecture: after all, they both derive their value from the right proportions.”

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