Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra / Skip Sempé
Dancing with Terpsichore
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Livestream of the concert in TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal, Utrecht on 3 September 2025 at 20:00 hours CEST.
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About this concert
A festival without Skip Sempé? That's like a party without champagne. And for the Friends of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, we serve only the very best. Our favourite harpsichordist-alchemist returns with a special project: stylised dance music by composers such as William Brade and Michael Praetorius, which rivals Dowland's Lachrimae and Morley's Consort Lessons, and is surprisingly rarely heard. Unknown, but no longer unloved after this concert! In a lavish line-up, Sempé and Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra mix elegant pavanes with sparkling galliardes to make a sparkling Renaissance gala under the approving eye of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance and namesake of the collection of instrumental dances that Praetorius published in 1612.
Programme
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Ballo I
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John Dowland
Lachrimae Antiquae
1563-1626 -
William Brade
Intrada
Naglein Blumen
Galliard1560-1630 -
Antony Holborne
The Funerals
c1545-1602 -
William Brade
Allmand
Galliard -
Michael Praetorius
La Bouree
Gavotte1571-1621 -
Ballo II
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John Dowland
Sir Henry Umptons Funerall
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Michael Praetorius
Passamezze
Gaillarde
Ballet des Baccanales -
John Dowland
Paduan
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Thomas Simpson
Taffel Consort
1582-1628 -
Michael Praetorius
Ballet des Matelotz
Gaillarde -
Antony Holborne
Paradizo
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Michael Praetorius
Gaillard
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William Brade
Ein Schottish Tanz
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Michael Praetorius
Ballet des cocqs
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Ballo III
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John Dowland
Lachrimae Verae
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Michael Praetorius
Ballet
Bransle de Poictou
Bransle double de Poictou -
William Brade
Das Rothschenken Tanz
Paduana
Galliard -
Samuel Scheidt
Courant ‘Ludi Musici’
1587-1654 -
Anonymous
When Dafne from fair Phoebus did fly
England, 17th century -
Michael Praetorius
Bransle de la Torche
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Ballo IV
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John Dowland
Semper Dowland semper Dolens
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William Brade
Allmand
Paduana -
Michael Praetorius
Spagnoletta
Courante -
William Brade
Galliard
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Michael Praetorius
Bransle de Villages
Volte -
John Bennet
Venus’ Birds
fl. 1599-1614 -
Michael Praetorius
Courante
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Moritz, Landgrave von Hesse
Paduana del Sigr. Guilhelmo Keudelio
1572-1632 -
Antony Holborne
Heigh ho holiday
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Julien Martin, Marine Sablonnière, Evolène Kiener, Pierre Hamon, Benoît Toigo recorder
- Doron Sherwin, Martin Bolterauer cornetto
- Juan Gonzalez Martinez, Joost Swinkels, Raphaël Robyns trombone
- Jasu Moisio shawm, krummhorn
- Josh Cheatham, Nick Milne, Margaret Little, Anna Lachegyi, Andreas Linos, Benoît Vanden Bemden viola da gamba
- Hugo Abraham violone
- Marianna Soraka percussion
- Olivier Fortin, Emmanuel Frankenberg virginal, harpsichord
- Skip Sempé musical direction, virginal, harpsichord
About the performers
Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra 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.