Laula! Kadri Tegelmann, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross

• Maarten Ornstein (b. 1967):
• 1 Ornstein: Häälerohi 04:33
• Traditional:
• 2 Laula! (Arr. for Voice, Vihuela & Bass Clarinet) 00:57
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695):
• 3 Purcell: Ground in C Minor, Z. 221 (Arr. for Theorbo & Bass Clarinet) 04:43
• Cipriano di Rore (1515 - 1565):
• 4 Rore: Ancor che col partire (Arr. for Voice, Vihuela & Bass Clarinet) 04:33
• Traditional:
• 5 Meil aiaäärne tänavas (Arr. for Voice, Theorbo & Bass Clarinet) 02:17
• 6 Noorik lahkub isakodunt (Arr. for Voice, Theorbo & Bass Clarinet) 04:07
• 7 Ela hästi (Arr. for Voice, Vihuela & Bass Clarinet) 02:24
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580 - 1651):
• 8 Kapsberger: Libro secondo di villanelle: No. 7, Figlio dormi (Arr. for Voice, Vihuela & Bass Clarinet) 04:53
• Traditional:
• 9 Lauliku lapsepõli (Arr. for Voice, Vihuela & Bass Clarinet) 05:06
• Arvo Pärt (b. 1935):
• 10 Pärt: Vater unser (Arr. for Voice, Theorbo & Bass Clarinet) 04:01
• Constantijn Huygens (1596 - 1687):
• 11 Huygens: Quare tristis es anima mea (Arr. for Theorbo & Bass Clarinet) 02:50
• Traditional:
• 12 Une sulased (After Merula's "Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna") [Arr. for Voice, Theorbo & Bass Clarinet] 12:07
• 13 Kurb laulik (After Dowland's "Flow My Tears") [Arr. for Voice, Theorbo & Bass Clarinet] 04:01
• Total Runtime 56:32

Info for Laula!

Laula! is the third album by Mike Fentross and Maarten Ornstein, they are once again collaborating with an extraordinary singer - the Estonian mezzo-soprano Kadri Tegelmann. She is not only a superb interpreter of the Baroque music, but she also introduced Maarten and Mike to the deep and rich tradition of Baltic vocal music with its many folksongs, hymns and chants. Choosing the repertoire for this new album, they learned that many Estonian folksongs are about events from the cycle of life, such as birth, marriage, lullabies, leaving and returning home, and death. These universal themes have been used in art for centuries all over the world, and they are the basis for the music on this recording too. For each of the Estonian folksongs featured here they have found an equivalent from the Baroque era, and where possible paired the songs. This third album Laula! illustrates the broadening artistic strides they have made from playing Baroque duos to venturing into the great tradition of Arabic music and now releasing a conceptual album about the cycle of life. Life in all its joy, misery, anxiety, glory and mystery - just like music itself.

Kadri Tegelmann, mezzo-soprano
Maarten Ornstein, bass clarinet
Mike Fentross, theorbo, vihuela

Recorded June 26 & 27, 2020 at Zeeuwse Concertzaal, Middelburg
Recording and editing: Jakko van der Heijden, Concertstudio (NL)

Kadri Tegelmann repertoire reaches from renaissance, baroque, classicism and romanticism to contemporary music and thus has multi-faceted engagements in Dutch opera and concert stages. Since 2016, she has been a guest artist of the avant-garde theatre Silbersee and in 2018, took up the part of Sibyl Vane in Dorian Gray, an opera co-production of Silbersee and Ulrike Quade Company. Kadri is a member of La Sfera Armonioso, a Dutch baroque ensemble and orchestra. In winter 2020, Kadri will premiere her first trio-CD with Maarten Ornstein and Mike Fentross.

Maarten Ornstein plays tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet. On occasion he plays tarogato, electric saxophone, MPC and laptop computers. He is also a composer and arranger. He leads the free funk ensemble DASH! and performs in duo with Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs, with lutist Mike Fentross, and as a soloist. Additionally, he plays with performance poet and singer Jeannine Valeriano. Maarten Ornstein endorses Légère reeds and is a member of Splendor Amsterdam.

Maarten Ornstein has composed for the Calefax Reed Quintet, the North Sea Jazz Festival, Ties Mellema, Koor Nieuwe Muziek Amsterdam, Xenia Meijer, the Metropole Orchestra, New Cool Collective Big Band, Orkater Theatre Company, Anouk van Dijk DC, Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Helena Rasker, the Ricciotti Ensemble etc etc, he was co-leader of the modern jazz trio Jungle Boldie (with Tony Overwater and Wim Kegel) and has played with the likes of Pat Metheny, The Ebony Band, Sunna Gunnlaugs, Caoimhin O Raghallaigh, Ilse de Lange, Ayman Tayseer, David Liebman, Arturas Bumsteinas, Claron McFadden, Red Mitchell, Rima Kcheich, the Schoenberg Ensemble etc etc.

Mike Fentross first studied with Toyohiko Satoh at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, then with Nigel North and José Miguel Moreno.

He has built a solid reputation as a “continuist”, playing in renowned orchestras like Les Arts Florissants, and is much in demand in his country as well as abroad. He plays and records regularly with great European ensembles such as Capriccio Stravagante, Les Arts Florissants, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Harp Consort, the New London Consort and Al Ayre Espanol.

In 1991 he founded La Sfera Armoniosa, a group devoted to the performance of 17th-century music. Since 1996 Mike Fentross is guest professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

Booklet for Laula!