Capriccio Stravagante, Voces Suaves & Cappella Amsterdam / Skip Sempé
La Pellegrina
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Recorded live at TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal, Utrecht, 30 August 2021
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About this concert
No one studying the history of Italy can avoid the powerful Medici family. With its luxurious court in Florence, this banking family was at the centre of music practice for centuries. La Pellegrina is one of the most spectacular fruits of their reign. This musical theatre piece – a collaboration between various composers – is strictly speaking an intermedio, but it points the way ahead to Baroque opera.
For La Pellegrina, the crowning glory of the wedding of Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine de Lorraine in 1589, no expense was spared, with a considerable artists’ collective that included Caccini, Cavalieri and Peri. Skip Sempé and his singers, soloists and genuine Renaissance orchestra together immerse themselves in the lavish score that explores all corners of the musical spectrum: from solo monody to thirty-part counterpoint.
Programme
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La Pellegrina intermedi1589
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PRIMO INTERMEDIO: The Harmony of the Spheres
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Antonio Archilei or Emilio de’ Cavalieri
Dalle più alte sfere
1541/42-1612 / ca. 1550-1602 -
Cristofano Malvezzi
Noi, che cantando
Sinfonia
Dolcissime Sirene
A voi reali amanti
Coppia gentil -
SECONDO INTERMEDIO: The Muses defeat the Pierides in a singing contest
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Luca Marenzio
Sinfonia
Belle ne fe' natura
Chi dal delfino
Se nelle voci nostre
O figlie di Piero1553/4-1599 -
TERZO INTERMEDIO: Apollo slays the Python at Delphi
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Luca Marenzio
Qui di carne si sfama
O valoroso Dio
O mille volte -
QUARTO INTERMEDIO: The Realm of the Demons
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Giulio Romolo Caccini
Io che dal ciel cader
1551-1618 -
Cristofano Malvezzi
Sinfonia
Or che le due grand'alme -
Giovanni de’ Bardi
Miseri habitator
1534-1612 -
QUINTO INTERMEDIO: Arion and the Dolphin
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Luca Marenzio
Io che l'onde raffreno
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Cristofano Malvezzi
E noi con questa bella diva
Sinfonia -
Jacopo Peri
Dunque fra torbid'onde
1561-1633 -
Cristofano Malvezzi
Lieti solcando il mare
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SESTO INTERMEDIO: The Gift of Harmony and Rhythm to Mankind
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Cristofano Malvezzi
Dal vago e bel sereno
O qual risplende nube -
Emilio de’ Cavalieri
Godi turba mortal
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Cristofano Malvezzi
O fortunato giorno
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Emilio de’ Cavalieri
O che nuovo miracolo
Musicians
- Soloists
- Zsuzsi Tóth soprano
- Valerio Contaldo tenor
- Voces Soaves
- Christina Boner, Mirjam Wernli soprano
- Giovanna Baviera mezzo-soprano
- Jan Thomer countertenor
- Valerio Contaldo, Dan Dunkelblum, Loïc Paulin tenor
- Tobias Wicky baritone
- Davide Benetti bass
- Cappella Amsterdam
- Sanda Audere, Maria Köpcke, Lette Vos soprano
- Philipp Cieslewicz, Beat Dudeck, Laura Lopes alto
- Jan Douwes, Jon Etxabe Arzuaga, Harry van Berne tenor
- Erks Jan Dekker, Kees Jan de Koning, Johan Vermeer, Robert van der Vinne bass
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Julien Martin, Marine Sablonnière, Evolène Kiener, Pierre Boragno, Benoît Toïgo recorder
- Jasu Moisio schalmei
- Doron Sherwin, Josué Meléndez cornetto
- Simen van Mechelen, Joren Elsen, Joost Swinkels trombone
- Josh Cheatham, Lucile Boulanger, Nick Milne, Margaret Little, Julien Léonard, Andreas Linos, Benoit Vanden Bemden viola da gamba
- Olivier Fortin, Emmanuel Frankenberg, Skip Sempé virginal, harpsichord, organ, regal
- Skip Sempé musical direction
About the performers
Capriccio Stravagante is harpsichordist Skip Sempé’s ensemble. Since the 1980s it has built up a broad repertoire, working as a chamber music ensemble but also as a large-scale Renaissance and Baroque orchestra. The formation has always sought out the very best musicians of the youngest generation. The ensemble was artist in residence during the Utrecht Early Music Festival in 2010.