In the summer of 2009 Harry van der Kamp and his Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam finished, with the recording of the Cantiones Sacrae, their epic journey through the complete vocal oeuvre of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

All in all, a total of 17 CDs of music had been recorded.The project included the Complete Psalms (12 CDs), the Complete Secular Works (3 CDs) and the Cantiones Sacrae (2 CDs).

Sweelinck, who was the organist at the Oude Kerk from the age of 15 until his death, carried out his musical activity at a time in which Catholicism had been supplanted by Calvinism. This development proved decisive in the composer basing his Magnum Opus – the composition of music for all the 150 Psalms – on the French texts of the Genevan Psalter, a metrical adaptation of the Biblical Psalms.

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Sweelinck's death, Glossa presents his complete vocal works in a box set for the first time.

Contents:

CD 1-3: Secular Vocal Works
Chansons - Italian Rimes - Madrigals - French Rimes - Canons

CD 4-5: Cantiones Sacrae
Cantiones Sacrae: 9 Psalm Motets, 9 Nativity Motets, 9 Gospel Motets, 9 Other Motets - Te Deum - Motets - Canons

CD 6-8: First Book of Psalms
Cinquante Pseaumes de David, 1604 - Premier Livre des Pseaumes de David, 1624

CD 9-11: Second Book of Psalms
Livre Second des Pseaumes de David, 1613

CD 12-14: Third Book of Psalms
Livre Troisieme des Pseaumes de David, 1614

CD 15-17: Fourth Book of Psalms
Livre Quatriesme et Conclusionnal des Pseaumes de David, 1621