Skip Sempé

Skip Sempé

There is no denying that the school of English virginalists formed the cradle of great keyboard music between 1550 and 1650. The contrasts within compositions are downright breathtaking: from the simplest melodies to flamboyant displays, from dance music to the magic of polyphony. Skip Sempé delves, among other things, into the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the most significant source of this musical treasure that forms the link between the Late Renaissance and Early Baroque.

Programme

• In Memoriam Colin Tilney (1933-2024)

• Anonymous

  My Lady Carey’s Dompe
  Le forze d’Hercole

  16th century
• William Inglot

  The Leaves bee Greene, FVB 251

  1554-1621
• William Byrd

  Pavan ‘Sir William Petre’
  Galliard, MB4

  c1540-1623
• Anonymous

  Saltarello del Re

  Italy 16th century
• Thomas Tomkins

  Pavan of 3 parts

  1572-1656
• William Byrd

  Galliard for the Victory, MB95
  Fantasia, MB62
  
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• Claudin de Sermisy

  Tant que vivray

  c1490-1562
• Anonymous

  Galliard
  (from: Thomas Mulliner (ed.), The Mulliner Book, England 1545-1570)

  England 16th century
• William Byrd

  Miserere mei Deus

• Orlando Gibbons

  Fantasia, MB14

  1583-1625
• William Byrd

  Wolseys Wilde
  
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• William Byrd

  Prelude, MB12

• Orlando Gibbons

  Pavan, MB17
  The Lord of Salisbury his Pavin
  Fantazia of 4 parts
  
  Programme subject to change

Musicians

• Skip Sempé harpsichord, virginal