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Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra / Skip Sempé

Friends concert: Dancing with Terpsichore

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Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal
Price € 10,00 - € 44,00
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Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra / Skip Sempé

A festival without Skip Sempé? That's like a party without champagne. And for the Friends of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, we serve only the very best. Our favourite harpsichordist-alchemist returns with a special project: stylised dance music by composers such as William Brade and Michael Praetorius, which rivals Dowland's Lachrimae and Morley's Consort Lessons, and is surprisingly rarely heard. Unknown, but no longer unloved after this concert! In a lavish line-up, Sempé and Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra mix elegant pavanes with sparkling galliardes to make a sparkling Renaissance gala under the approving eye of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance and namesake of the collection of instrumental dances that Praetorius published in 1612.

NB: Friends who donate € 200 or more will receive a separate invitation to reserve their free tickets.

Programme

  • Ballo I

  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae Antiquae

    1563-1626
  • William Brade

    Intrada
    Naglein Blumen
    Galliard

    1560-1630
  • Antony Holborne

    The Funerals

    c1545-1602
  • William Brade

    Allmand
    Galliard

  • Michael Praetorius

    La Bouree
    Gavotte

    1571-1621
  • Ballo II

  • John Dowland

    Sir Henry Umptons Funerall

  • Michael Praetorius

    Passamezze
    Gaillarde
    Ballet des Baccanales

  • John Dowland

    Paduan

  • Thomas Simpson

    Taffel Consort

    1582-1628
  • Michael Praetorius

    Ballet des Matelotz
    Gaillarde

  • Antony Holborne

    Paradizo

  • Michael Praetorius

    Gaillard

  • William Brade

    Ein schottish Tanz

  • Michael Praetorius

    Ballet des cocqs

  • Ballo III

  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae Verae

  • Michael Praetorius

    Ballet
    Bransle de Poictou
    Bransle double de Poictou

  • William Brade

    Das Rothschenken Tanz
    Paduana
    Galliard

  • Samuel Scheidt

    Courant ‘Ludi Musici’

    1587-1654
  • Anonymous

    When Dafne from fair Phoebus did fly

    England, 17th century
  • Michael Praetorius

    Bransle de la Torche

  • Ballo IV

  • John Dowland

    Semper Dowland semper Dolens

  • William Brade

    Allmand
    Paduana

  • Michael Praetorius

    Spagnoletta
    Courante

  • William Brade

    Galliard

  • Michael Praetorius

    Bransle de Villages
    Volte

  • John Bennet

    Venus’ Birds

    fl. 1599-1614
  • Michael Praetorius

    Courante

  • Moritz, Landgrave von Hesse

    Paduana del Sigr. Guilhelmo Keudelio

    1572-1632
  • Antony Holborne

    Heigh ho holiday

    Programme subject to change

Musicians

  • Julien Martin, Marine Sablonnière, Evolène Kiener, Pierre Hamon, Benoît Toigo recorder
  • Doron Sherwin, Martin Bolterauer cornetto
  • NTB trombone
  • Jasu Moisio shawm, krummhorn
  • Josh Cheatham, Nick Milne, Margaret Little, Anna Lachegyi, Andreas Linos, Benoît Vanden Bemden viola da gamba
  • NTB percussion
  • Olivier Fortin, Emmanuel Frankenberg virginal, harpsichord
  • Skip Sempé musical direction, virginal, harpsichord

About the performers

Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra is harpsichordist Skip Sempé’s ensemble. Since the 1980s it has built up a broad repertoire, working as a chamber music ensemble but also as a large-scale Renaissance and Baroque orchestra. The formation has always sought out the very best musicians of the youngest generation. The ensemble was artist in residence during the Utrecht Early Music Festival in 2010.

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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