Genevieve Lacey - Line Drawings: Music Of Jacob Van Eyck [CD]

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\u2018Jacob\u2019s been a friend for decades. Almost as long as I\u2019ve been playing the recorder, I\u2019ve been playing Jacob\u2019s music.' So says Genevieve Lacey of this recording.\r
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'Perhaps because I first met and loved him when I was little, his voice feels like my instrument\u2019s mother tongue. Jacob\u2019s simple melodies were so sweet for my young fingers. In adolescence, his music expressed things I couldn\u2019t, yet meant with all my being. Jacob was there in my learning-my-craft years, his music urging me through the long, solitary practice tunnel. Nowadays I\u2019m discovering expressive sides of him I didn\u2019t recognise earlier ... He died centuries ago, but he\u2019s shaped me.\u2019\r
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Australian recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey returns to the music of Dutch composer Jacob van Eyck in a new album on ABC Classics. \r
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Born blind at the end of the sixteenth century, Van Eyck came to be hailed as \u2018the Orpheus of Utrecht\u2019 in his lifetime and is now regarded as one of the most significant musicians of his generation. As well as being an expert organist, he spearheaded technical and musical developments in bell-ringing, and was appointed as Director of the Carillons of Utrecht in 1628. He is best remembered, however, for his collection of works for solo soprano recorder \u2018Der Fluyten Lust-hof\u2019 (The Flute\u2019s Pleasure Garden) \u2013 a collection of over 140 melodies and variations, with themes sourced from popular folk songs, psalms and memorable tunes of the time.\r
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Van Eyck was famously given a pay rise to wander through Janskerkhof public gardens in the evenings, to entertain passers-by on \u2018his little flute\u2019 (as the recorder was then called). Line Drawings compiles some of Genevieve Lacey\u2019s favourite works from this collection. \r
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The album cover and booklet feature stunning drawings by Brook Andrew, inspired by Van Eyck\u2019s music.

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