Music from the Era of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

This new 7-CD box set from Etcetera Records, available at the special price of 2 CDs, presents ‘Music from the Era of Pieter Bruegel’.

Pieter Bruegel I (ca. 1525-1569), commonly known as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was the greatest member of a large and important southern Netherlandish family of artists active for four generations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

A longtime resident of Antwerp, the centre of publishing in the Netherlands and a vibrant commercial capital, Bruegel brought a humanising spirit to traditional subjects and boldly created new ones. He travelled all over Europe and after a specif trip to Italy, formed a long-standing association Hieronymus Cock. This specially priced 7-CD set provides a musical backdrop to what he would have heard as he worked and travelled across Europe.


CD 1: Biblical Themes
- Phillipus de Monte, Orlandus Lassus, Adriaan Willaert, Jacobus Clemens non Papa, etc.

CD 2: Music from the Royal Courts
- Nicolas Gombert, Thomas Crecquillon, Josquin des Prez, Luys de Narváez, Philippe Rogier, etc.

CD 3: Death and Transience
- Cornelius Canis, Phillipus de Monte, Pierre de Manchicourt, Giaches de Wert, Cipriano de Rore, etc.

CD 4: Ode to Love and Celebration
- Nicolas Gombert, Pierre Moulu, Jean de Castro, Orlandus Lassus, Andreas Pévernage, etc.

CD 5: The Virtue of Vice
- Ivo de Vento, Arnold von Bruck, Heinrich Isaac, Gheerkin de Hondt, Johannes Lupi, etc.

CD 6: Religious Confrontation in the Low Countries
- Caspar Othmayrk, Johannes Eccard, Balduin Hoyoul, Pascal de l’Estocart, Guillaume Châtillon de la Tour, etc.

CD 7: Dances and Songs
- Pierre Phalèse, Tielman Susato, Jheronimus Vinders, Alexander Agricola, Ludovicus Episcopius, etc.