Skip Sempé
The Playing Byrd 9: Byrd & Chambonnières
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Recorded live at the Lutherse Kerk Utrecht, 6 September 2026.
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About this concert
How do you coax a keyboard into sounding at its best? William Byrd and Jacques Champion de Chambonnières answer that question in different ways. With Byrd, voices intertwine in fantasies, pavans and virtuosic variations. Chambonnières plays the elegance card with dances and melodies that seem to float. Under the hands of Skip Sempé, the two pioneers meet in repertoire that illustrates the emancipation of the harpsichord.
Harpsichords: Boccalari 1699 & Karman after Couchet ‘petit ravalement’ 1652
Programme
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William Byrd
Rowland or Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home, MB 7
Galliard, MB 72b
Pavan, MB 52a
Galliard, MB 52b
Pavan, MB 17
Qui Passe: for my Lady Nevell, MB 19
Passamezzo Pavan, MB 2a
Passamezzo Galliard, MB 2b
Fantasia, MB 62c1540-1623 -
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières
Pavanne, B/T 87
Allemande dite L’Affligée, B/T 124
Sarabande, B/T 120
Sarabande, B/T 88
Galliarde, B/T 6
Paschalia, B/T 1421601/2-1672 -
Luigi Rossi
Passacaille del Seigr. Louigi
(from: Bauyn Manuscript)c1597-1653
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, English, German and Italian harpsichord music.