Special offer. Terpsichore: Muse of the Dance
Dances by Michael Praetorius and William Brade
Julien Martin (recorder) & Doron Sherwin (cornetto)
Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
The pleasure principle might be uppermost here, but that doesn't preclude a playful sophistication, as well as seductive sobriety. The players improvise exuberantly, as if at some Renaissance...
Special offer. Terpsichore: Muse of the Dance
Dances by Michael Praetorius and William Brade
Julien Martin (recorder) & Doron Sherwin (cornetto)
Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
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The pleasure principle might be uppermost here, but that doesn't preclude a playful sophistication, as well as seductive sobriety. The players improvise exuberantly, as if at some Renaissance...
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Capriccio Stravagante has further expanded their kaleidoscopic variety of sound and programming with the creation of the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra, including a long-awaited recording of the 1589 'Intermedii for La Pellegrina' on the Paradizo label, with the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and the Collegium Vocale Gent, directed by Skip Sempe.
The Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra offers virtuoso performers on highly distinctive musical instruments whose playing techniques are completely unknown to classically trained instrumentalists and mainstream audiences. The ensemble is the largest and most luxurious gathering yet assembled for the performance of masterpieces from this Golden Age of musical creativity.
The Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra has created one of the most beautiful, opulent and memorable sounds in music today, thanks to an assembly of the finest performers on Renaissance instruments including violins, viols, recorders, cornetti, sackbuts, lutes, harps, harpsichords, virginals, organs, regals and percussion. Though in our time many think of this instrumentarium as "Baroque", these instruments had been created and perfected by 1550, and the instrumental virtuosity they demanded was already highly evolved.
Capriccio Stravagante has further expanded their kaleidoscopic variety of sound and programming with the creation of the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra, including a long-awaited recording of the 1589 Intermedii for La Pellegrina on the Paradizo label, with the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and the Collegium Vocale Gent, directed by Skip Sempe.
The Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra offers virtuoso performers on highly distinctive musical instruments whose playing techniques are completely unknown to classically trained instrumentalists and mainstream audiences. The ensemble is the largest and most luxurious gathering yet assembled for the performance of masterpieces from this Golden Age of musical creativity.
The Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra has created one of the most beautiful, opulent and memorable sounds in music today, thanks to an assembly of the finest performers on Renaissance instruments including violins, viols, recorders, cornetti, sackbuts, lutes, harps, harpsichords, virginals, organs, regals and percussion. Though in our time many think of this instrumentarium as "Baroque", these instruments had been created and perfected by 1550, and the instrumental virtuosity they demanded was already highly evolved.
Contents and tracklist
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
- Julien Martin
- Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
- Skip Sempé
Awards and reviews
January 2013
The pleasure principle might be uppermost here, but that doesn't preclude a playful sophistication, as well as seductive sobriety. The players improvise exuberantly, as if at some Renaissance jam session; they are clearly having a ball.
Early Music Review December 2012
Sempe contributes the exquisite timbres of the tiorbino, a gut-string spinet which adds a genuinely unique dimension to the texture … just close your eyes and let visions of entire courts of galliarding dandies sweep across your imagination.
May 2013
Sempe and his Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchstra approach Praetorius's French dances more as art music than as simple dances...Sempe's high-octane direction...combines ebullient energy with high refinement and unwavering technical command...this is an impressive and profoundly engaging recording.
