Ayrton, Coolen & Zipperling

Ayrton, Coolen & Zipperling

What can you do with a single long note? Embellish it, thought the Renaissance man, and he improvised away. Diminutions and divisions transformed simple tunes with scales, leaps, and ornaments. Saskia Coolen, Rainer Zipperling, and artist-in-residence Patrick Ayrton are masters of this game. In Passaggiata, they start with music by Ortiz, Coprario, and Selma y Salaverde. Where the score ends, imagination begins.

Tip: also visit our free morning programme, The Early Music Breakfast Show, at 10:00 hrs at TivoliVredenburg, Het Gegeven Paard

Programme

• Diego Ortiz / arr. Saskia Coolen

  Recercada seconda

  1510-1570
• Cipriano de Rore / Saskia Coolen

  Diminutions on Ancor che col partire

  1515/16-1565
• Aurelio Virgiliano

  Recercata per viola bastarda
  (from: Il Dolcimelo, Italy c1600)

  c1540-c1600
• Anonymous

  Daphne
  (from: The Camphuysen Manuscript, c1652)

• Patrick Ayrton

  Improvised ricercar on a theme given by the audience

• John Coprario

  Fantasia Suite

  c1570/80-1626
• Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde

  Susanna passeggiata

  c1595-1638
• Diego Ortiz / Saskia Coolen

  Diminutions on Susanne un jour

  c1510-c1570
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina / Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde

  Diminutions on Vestiva i colli

  1525/26-1594 / c1595-1638
• Thomas Crecquillon / Saskia Coolen

  Diminutions on Un gay Bergier

  c1505/15-1557?
• Patrick Ayrton

  Improvised diminutions on a theme given by the audience

• David Mell

  Divisions on John come kiss me now
  
  Programme subject to change

  1604-1662

Musicians

• Saskia Coolen recorder
• Rainer Zipperling viola da gamba
• Patrick Ayrton harpsichord