Harry van der Kamp and an the Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam have achieved what few specialist ensembles before them have even attempted: a complete survey of the vocal music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, the “Orpheus of Amsterdam”. This first release on Glossa covers the entirety of Sweelinck’s secular vocal works, one of the glories of the young Dutch Republic and which occupied much of his compositional activity. Here then is a tremendous opportunity to experience the forgotten works of a musician whose music developed in the first flowering of the Baroque.