202650. Skip Sempé - The Playing Byrd 9: Byrd & Chambonnières 6 Sep 13.00 147 9105 Mariekewijntjes
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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. 

Harpsichord: Boccalari 1699

Programme

  • William Byrd

    Passamezzo Pavan & Galliard, MB 2a/2b
    Rowland or Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home, MB 7 
    Galliard, MB 72b 
    Fantasia, MB 62 
    Pavan and Galliard, MB 52 
    Pavan, MB 17 
    Qui Passe: for my Lady Nevell, MB 19

    c1540-1623
  • Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

    Pavanne, B/T 87 
    Allemande dite L’Affligée, B/T 124 
    Sarabande, B/T 120 
    Pavanne L’Entretien des Dieux, B/T 24 
    Galliarde, B/T 6 
    Paschalia, B/T 142

    Programme subject to change

    1601/2-1672

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.

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