Waking up listeners - Capriccio Stravagante is world-renowned for their memorable interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music. Founded in 1986 by Skip Sempé, the ensemble of three to seventy performers incorporates Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons. By the mid 1990s, the ensemble had built up an extensive discography for which they received international acclaim and had performed in major concert halls and festivals worldwide. Nonchalance & Power - The ensembles seek a musical aesthetic whose values have been nearly lost to contemporary musical life. Unlike many other early music ensembles, they adhere to traditional principles of articulation, rhetoric, scholarship, imagination and talent to break down conventions that have little to do with historical practice, particularly those originating in twentieth-century ‘Baroque’ performance practices. Capriccio Stravagante has recorded extensively for the Paradizo, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée, Alpha and Teldec labels. Man-made beauty - The Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra offers virtuoso performers on a highly distinctive musical instrumentarium that includes violins, viols, recorders, cornetti, sackbuts, krummhorns, shawms, lutes, harps, harpsichords, virginals, organs, and percussion. Derived from the instrumental virtuosity that sixteenth-century music demanded, their playing techniques are completely unknown to classically trained instrumentalists and mainstream audiences today. The ensemble is the largest and most luxurious gathering yet assembled for the performance of masterpieces from this Golden Age of musical creativity. Awards & Rewards - Capriccio Stravagante’s exceptional chamber ensemble playing has inspired three generations of musicians, many of whom have gone on to enjoy international careers. The Capriccio Stravagante Prize was created by Skip Sempé in 1997, and served to encourage numerous musicians in their early careers. It is particularly touching that many of those musicians have now become an integral part of Capriccio Stravagante’s activities. Sempé receives lasting inspiration from the key members of these renewed generations.
M Sempe had to suppress a cheeky smile whilst playing notes for tuning Cheatham. Reminded me of the joke where the conductor finds "viola" and "oboe" crying at the beginning of the rehearsal. Asking the oboist what happened, he replied "The violist bit into my reed." Whereon the violist sobs: "Yeah, but the oboist turned all my viola's pins!"
@Polluxgeminae claro k es barroco! digo el toque que tiene,c omo las danzas así más medievales! Algo que no suena tan mecánico como el barroco, aunque igualmente bello...
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I have just been introduced to couperin, and it’s beautiful and love it all ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Waking up listeners - Capriccio Stravagante is world-renowned for their memorable interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music. Founded in 1986 by Skip Sempé, the ensemble of three to seventy performers incorporates Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons. By the mid 1990s, the ensemble had built up an extensive discography for which they received international acclaim and had performed in major concert halls and festivals worldwide.
Nonchalance & Power - The ensembles seek a musical aesthetic whose values have been nearly lost to contemporary musical life. Unlike many other early music ensembles, they adhere to traditional principles of articulation, rhetoric, scholarship, imagination and talent to break down conventions that have little to do with historical practice, particularly those originating in twentieth-century ‘Baroque’ performance practices. Capriccio Stravagante has recorded extensively for the Paradizo, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée, Alpha and Teldec labels.
Man-made beauty - The Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra offers virtuoso performers on a highly distinctive musical instrumentarium that includes violins, viols, recorders, cornetti, sackbuts, krummhorns, shawms, lutes, harps, harpsichords, virginals, organs, and percussion. Derived from the instrumental virtuosity that sixteenth-century music demanded, their playing techniques are completely unknown to classically trained instrumentalists and mainstream audiences today. The ensemble is the largest and most luxurious gathering yet assembled for the performance of masterpieces from this Golden Age of musical creativity.
Awards & Rewards - Capriccio Stravagante’s exceptional chamber ensemble playing has inspired three generations of musicians, many of whom have gone on to enjoy international careers. The Capriccio Stravagante Prize was created by Skip Sempé in 1997, and served to encourage numerous musicians in their early careers. It is particularly touching that many of those musicians have now become an integral part of Capriccio Stravagante’s activities. Sempé receives lasting inspiration from the key members of these renewed generations.
How can a piece be so joyful and yet so wistful? Amazing.
From this wonderfully sensitive performance, I am gleaning an understanding of Ravel's Forlane from the tombeau de Couperin. Very beautiful playing.
Splendide interprétation, sobre mais sensible, toute en retenue.
Merci pour ce moment d'émotion.
Perfect! Thank you! Thank you! Thanks a lot for posting this! Now I can see and listen one of my lifetime heroes whenever I want! THAAAANK YOUUUU!!!
La beauté existe !!!!!!
Bravo, it's soft and nice
Que delicadeza, essa flauta, tão diferente
da música barulhenta de hoje!
WONDERFUL!
awesome !
What a wonderfull music and so well played. This great music! Where can I find it on cd??
Gorgeous! Voice flute or tenor?
M Sempe had to suppress a cheeky smile whilst playing notes for tuning Cheatham.
Reminded me of the joke where the conductor finds "viola" and "oboe" crying at the beginning of the rehearsal. Asking the oboist what happened, he replied "The violist bit into my reed." Whereon the violist sobs: "Yeah, but the oboist turned all my viola's pins!"
che nobiltà in questa musica
Very nice, but I find the harpsichord too loud.
It's always too loud. That's its evil role on Earth.
When it asks for piano, play forte so the people can hear you. ;)
@Polluxgeminae claro k es barroco! digo el toque que tiene,c omo las danzas así más medievales! Algo que no suena tan mecánico como el barroco, aunque igualmente bello...
@91Albertinho disculpa, pero es barroco...