Skip Sempé

Skip Sempé

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 1669

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