Skip Sempé
Gustav Leonhardt's little red harpsichord - In memoriam Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012)
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Recorded live at the Pieterskerk Utrecht, 14 December 2021
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About this concert
In 2021 Skip Sempé commemorates the tenth anniversary of Gustav Leonhardt’s death with a concert on the instrument Leonhardt referred to as ‘my little red harpsichord’. During a masterclass in 1979, Leonhardt pulled a travel-weary photograph of this sumptuously decorated instrument from his wallet and showed it to Sempé. Now, the harpsichord travels to Utrecht for a special concert in honour of this great harpsichordist.
Sempé: ‘After one of my last lessons, I asked Leonhardt to show me the “little red harpsichord” from the wallet sized photo I had seen years before. On the spur of the moment, he went up the stairs, opened the harpsichord and tuned with impressive care. Knowing my special love for seventeenth-century French harpsichord music, Leonhardt played for me on this magical instrument for quite a long time: improvisation, snatches of Louis Couperin, Froberger, d’Anglebert… The completely unique and relatively secret method of real virtuosity on the harpsichord was revealed – the greatest gift one could imagine from a fellow harpsichord player.’
Harpsichord: Martin Skowroneck 1975, after Jean-Antoine Vaudry (Paris, 1681)
Programme
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Orlando Gibbons
The Lord of Salisbury’s Pavan
ca. 1583-1625 -
William Byrd
Qui Passe for my Lady Nevell
ca. 1540-1623 -
Henry Purcell
A New Ground
1659-1695 -
Orlando Gibbons
Pavane, MB 17
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Giovanni Picchi
Ballo alla Polacha
1571/72-1643 -
William Byrd
Galliard for the Victory
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Anonymous
The Irish Ho-Hoane
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Pierre Sandrin
Doulce mémoire
ca. 1490-after 1560 -
Anonymous
Was not good King Solomon
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Henry Purcell
Ground
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Johann Jakob Froberger
Lamento sur la mort de Ferdinando IV
1616-1667 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Praeludium, BWV 846
1685-1750 -
Johann Sebastian Bach / arr. Gustav Leonhardt
Violin sonata no. 3 in C major, BWV 1005
Largo1928-2012 -
Johann Jakob Froberger
Tombeau sur la mort de Monsieur Blancrocher
*** -
Jean-Henri d’Anglebert
Prelude
1629-1691 -
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières
Allemande L’Affligée
Sarabande1601/02-1672 -
Thomas Tomkins
A Sad Pavan for these distracted times
*** -
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Harpeggio
1656-1746 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude, BWV 940
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Johann Sebastian Bach / arr. Gustav Leonhardt
Cello suite no. 6 in D major, BWV 1012
Sarabande -
Louis Couperin
Chaconne
ca. 1626-1661 -
Johann Jakob Froberger
Méditation sur ma mort future
Musicians
- Skip Sempé harpsichord
About the performer
Harpsichordist and conductor Skip Sempé blends nonchalance and virgour both in his solo appearances and those with his own ensemble Capriccio Stravagante. Paradizo, Sempé’s own CD label, has released CDs of his own ensemble, as well as several solo programmes of French harpsichord music.