Monteverdi - Vespro: Domine ad adjuvandum / Capriccio Stravagante / Vox Luminis / Sempé

Claudio Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine: Domine ad adjuvandum
Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra / Skip Sempé
Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier
Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra
Tuomo Suni, Jacek Kurzydlo - violin
Josh Cheatham, Nick Milne, Julien Léonard - viola da gamba / violone
Julien Martin, Marine Sablonnière, Evolène Kiener, Benoît Toigo - flûte à bec / krummhorn
Josué Melendez - cornetto
Simen van Mechelen, Joost Swinkels, Claire Mac Intyre - saqueboute
Jasu Moisio, Lidewij de Sterck - bombarde / krummhorn
Thomas Dunford, André Henrich - luth
Skip Sempé, Olivier Fortin - virginal
Olivier Fortin, Catalina Vicens - orgue
Catalina Vicens, Skip Sempé - percussion
Vox Luminis
Zsuzsi Tóth*, Sara Jäggi , Victoria Cassano - soprano
Jan Kullmann, Barnabas Hegyi, David Feldman - alto
Valerio Contaldo*, Philippe Froeliger*, Pieter de Moor - ténor
Lionel Meunier, Sebastian Myrus, Matthias Lutze - basse
(soliste*)
Capriccio Stravagante - Concerts du 30ème anniversaire
Terpsichore 2016 - Église Saint-Louis-en-l'Île, Paris - 10 octobre 2016

[@CapriccioStravagante]

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.

[@marcosPRATA918]

Only the greatness of Monteverdi to transform the "fanfare" of the gonzaga into a cantata symphony that anticipates in 100 years the majestic Baroque of the 18th century.

[@TonyBittner-Collins]

Magnificent rendition! I loved the reedy sound effect of the crumhorns. 🎼🎶💞

[@EsmeeTsai]

Sounds like the beginning of L'Orfeo.

[@hubbsllc]

Okay, who else is here because of Wendy Carlos?