5 sep Pieterskerk 15:00

Cappella Mariana & Capriccio Stravagante

One chanson, infinite faces: Pierre Sandrin’s Doulce mémoire conquered 16th-century Europe. Cappella Mariana and Capriccio Stravagante reveal how this hit transformed from a worldly French chanson into the Latin Mass that Cipriano de Rore crafted from the same base material. Between the Mass movements, instrumental variations shine through cornetto, recorder, viol, and harpsichord. One thing is certain: no one leaves without an earworm.

Programme

Pierre Sandrin

Doulce mémoire
(from: La paragon des chansons, livre I, Paris 1538)

c1490-after 1560
Cipriano de Rore

Missa Doulce mémoire
Kyrie
Gloria

1515/16-1565
Instrumental

3 variations on Doulce mémoire
Cipriano de Rore

Missa Doulce mémoire
Credo
Instrumental

3 variations on Doulce mémoire
Cipriano de Rore

Missa Doulce mémoire
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei

Programme subject to change

Musicians

Cappella Mariana
Barbora Kabátková soprano
Ondřej Holub, Tomáš Lajtkep tenor
Jaromír Nosek, Pieter Stas bass
Vojtěch Semerád tenor, musical direction
Capriccio Stravagante
Doron Sherwin cornetto
Julien Martin recorder
Josh Cheatham viola da gamba
Emmanuel Frankenberg organ
Skip Sempé harpsichord, musical direction

Pieterskerk

Pieterskerkhof 3
3512 JR Utrecht

Wheelchair accessible

Disabled parking

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Cappella Mariana is a vocal ensemble specializing in Medieval and Renaissance polyphony and the vocal repertoire of Early Baroque. The performances of Cappella Mariana have met with enthusiastic reception from the public and critics alike, the latter highlighting the ensemble’s expressive performance. Cappella Mariana was founded in 2008 as one of the few Czech ensembles focusing on the interpretation of high vocal polyphony, especially from Italian, Flemish, and English Renaissance, and is currently under artistic direction of Vojtěch Semerád.

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.