Capriccio Stravagante / Skip Sempé
Dolmetsch's dream
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Recorded live at the Pieterskerk Utrecht, 27 August 2023
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About this concert
The foundations of the early music movement were laid by Arnold Dolmetsch, the French-English pioneer who, around 1900, rekindled the longing for the past in all its intensity. His ensemble concerts on period instruments heralded the definitive revival of the gamba, lute and harpsichord. Skip Sempé navigates Capriccio Stravagante through a programme that could have been Dolmetsch's own, with music by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tomkins.
Programme
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William Lawes
Fantazia in A minor a 5
1602-1645 -
John Eccles
The Mad Lover: Aire
1668-1735 -
Tobias Hume
The Lady of Bedford’s Delight
1569-1645 -
Robert Johnson
Alman
ca. 1583-1633 -
Godfrey Finger
A Ground
1655/56-1730 -
Anthony Holborne
Paradizo
1545-1602 -
Anonymous
The King’s Morisco
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William Lawes
Pavan in C major a 5
*** -
Robert Carr
Divisions upon an Italian Ground
fl. 1684-1687 -
Anonymous
Praeludium
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Tobias Hume
The Duke of Holstone’s delight
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William Byrd
The Queen’s Alman
1539/40-1623 -
Anonymous
Tollet’s Ground
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Matthew Locke
Ayre in G major a 4
Sarabande in G major a 4
***1621-1677 -
Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata VI: Adagio / Allegro
1653-1713 -
William Lawes
Pavan in F major a 5
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Matthew Locke
Ayre in F major a 4
Sarabande in F major a 4 -
William Byrd
Praeludium & Ground a 5
Musicians
- Josh Cheatham, Nicholas Milne, Anna Lachegyi, Margaret Little, Lucile Boulanger viola da gamba
- Thomas Triesschijn recorder
- Emmanuel Frankenberg harpsichord, virginal
- Skip Sempé harpsichord and 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.
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, English, German and Italian harpsichord music.