Received from the waters of Zeeland and born of the virgin Hildegard, with Igor Stravinsky as the deceived husband and Arvo Pärt as godfather: this is how one could characterize the postmodern religiosity of this CD, of which the creator probably only goes to church when his own music is played there. executed. The music sounds stern medieval in its rejection of any form of romanticism (with the
… exception of Bruckner's monumental sound blocks). At the same time, this music wants to be with people, as Daan Manneke's tireless activities in the countless sections of our music culture show. Manneke's Calvinist background has in no way hindered his musical development. In an interview with Klaas Hoek, he once said that he experienced singing praises to whole notes as an enormous force, coupled with a very high emotionality. However, there is more that determined his origins. He has Flemish ancestors, while his mother's ancestry includes a Spanish soldier who remained in Zeeland during the Eighty Years' War: hence probably Manneke's preference for the Zeeland poetry of Hans Warren, the Flemish poetry of Guido Gezelle and the French poetry of Rimbaud and Verlaine. Strangely enough, the editors of Het Honderd Composersboek have not devoted an article to this rather well-known composer. Fortunately, Donemus has not forgotten him, with the result that Daan Manneke is now also depicted with bare collarbones on the booklet of a CD in the Composers Voice series. The vocal program includes contributions from Studium Chorale (Topos), the Daniel Quartet (Tehilla / Arc II), the Egidius Quartet (Tombeau, in memoriam Ton de Leeuw) and countertenor Sytze Buwalda (Fructus for Sytze). (HJ)more
