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Skip Sempé
12+ albums
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Skip Sempé, virtuoso harpsichordist, director and founder of Capriccio Stravagante, is at the forefront of today’s musical personalities in Renaissance and Baroque music. Sempé grew up in New Orleans, studied music, musicology, organology and the history of art in the United States at the Oberlin Conservatory and completed his training in Europe with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. His distinctive harpsichord playing, musicianship and interpretive flair were immediately recognized as the invention of an exotic, multi-dimensional and uncompromising musical personality. Sempé remained in Europe to embark on his own pioneering reconsideration of well and lesser-known repertoire ranging from 1500-1750. Capriccio Stravagante now incorporates the chamber ensemble, the Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Opera. The diverse vocal and instrumental formations of Capriccio Stravagante feature the finest European, American and Canadian musicians. Since the beginning, the magic combination of nonchalance and power which are the trademarks of Skip Sempé and Capriccio Stravagante’s live and recorded performances has been rewarded with outstanding critical praise worldwide. As a solo performer, Sempé has focused on developing a superb sense of idiomatic harpsichord touch and a finely tuned ear for achieving variation in the instrument’s sonority. Performing and recording on the world’s most prestigious harpsichords, made
top songs
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Pièces de clavecin, Livre IV: L’Amphibie. Mouvement de passacaille
4172Le Dodo ou l'amour au berceau
933Divertissement V: Les Plaisirs de l'Île Enchantée: - L'Amphibie - Mouvement de Passacaille [Noblement]
804Méditation faite sur ma mort future, la quelle se joue lentement avec discretion, à Paris 1 mai Anno 1660
735Ciacona in E Minor, BuxWV 160 (for 2 Harpsichords)
666Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161 (for 2 Harpsichords)
647Pavane in F-Sharp Minor
598Sonata in D minor, Op. 1/6, BuxWV 257 (for Violin, Viola da gamba & Continuo)
569Sonata in F major, Op. 1/1, BuxWV 252 (for Violin, Viola da gamba & Continuo)
5010Sonata in C, BuxWV 266 (for 2 Violins, Viola da gamba & Continuo)
47albums
The Virgin Harpsichord
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Couperin: Concert dans le goût théâtral
A French Collection
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Bach: Tradition & Transcription
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Couperin: Sonates & Pieces De Viole
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DHM Splendeurs: Buxtehude Sonatas
Jean Gilles: Messe des Morts - Rameau's Funeral, Paris, 27. IX. 1764
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Louis Couperin : Suites et Pavane
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Couperin: La Sultane
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J.S. Bach:Concerti - Ciaconna & Partita
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DHM Splendeurs: Forqueray: Pieces Pour Viole, Pieces Pour Clavecin
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Louis Couperin: Suites et Pavane (Alpha Collection)