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Always About Love's opening track J’ay pris amours a ma devise (I have chosen love as my device) is the motto for the album with songs about longing and happiness, sadness and saying farewell. BRISK and Amaryllis Dieltiens have created a programme with music from various different styles and periods on these timeless themes. The poetry is the starting point for the various sections. The instrumental pieces are also all connected to this content, and could be listened to as instrumental poetry, as songs without words. Alongside 16th and 17th century music from England, France and Germany, the sound of more recent times should not be lacking on this album. The quartet has arranged versions by Cecil Sharp and Benjamin Britten of the English folksong O Waly Waly. “Love is handsome, love is kind”, but love may fade away like the morning dew. Dawn is also used as a metaphor for the beloved in Max Knigge’s Ochtendbede, based on a sonnet by Jacques Perk. Hans Koolmees has written two songs about earthly and heavenly love, based on texts by the medieval mystic Hadewijch and the modern Flemish poet Eva Cox, and finally Walther Stuhlmacher has composed a wordless farewell. However different these worlds may seem, it is always all about love! https://youtu.be/tuauJMIU7N4 1J’ay pris amours a ma devise 01:45 2Ostinato vo seguire 02:41 3Io mi son giovinetta 03:06 4Venus’ birds 02:27 5Joan, quoth John 03:51 6Galiard 01:35 7Ochtendbede 06:52 8Entre vous filles 01:53 9Canzon Francesa deta Frais & Gaillard 04:00 10Love Song - Tierelantijntje 05:32 11Tota pulchra es amica mea 03:58 12Love Song - Visioen 07:38 13Dont vient cela / Basse dance Dont vient cela 05:20 14Ach, weh des Leiden 02:44 15Bonny sweet Robin 03:04 16O Waly, Waly 03:34 17Abschied 03:06