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Bull / Skrzeczkowski - Real John Bull

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Format: CD
Label: RICERCAR
Rel. Date: 09/06/2024
UPC: 5400439004627

Real John Bull
Artist: Bull / Skrzeczkowski
Format: CD
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Maciej Skrzeczkowski, the winner of the MA Competition in Bruges in 2023, devotes his new album to John Bull (1562 - 1628), an English composer who fled his country to take refuge in the Netherlands not only because of his Roman Catholic faith but also because of charges of immorality. There could be nothing more logical in this context than to use copies of English virginals as well as of a typical Dutch adaptation of the instrument known as the moeder en kind (mother and child). This association between English style and Dutch musical practice is clearly evident in John Bull's works, as he had also been in contact with the Amsterdam organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
        
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