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Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra - Versailles: L'île enchantée (2004)

Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra - Versailles: L'île enchantée (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 426 Mb | Total time: 68:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # ALPHA 016 | Recorded: 2001

Even by the supremely high production standards of Alpha recordings, this issue is especially splendid. Entitled Versailles, L'ile enchantée, it fully lives up to its name. As directed by Skip Sempé, the widely varied program features music written for Louis XIV's pleasure palace, performed by the Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra with mezzo soprano Guillemette Laurens and bass violist Jay Bernfeld. Each work is superbly selected, and every performance is absolutely idiomatic and wonderfully alive. There is wit and tenderness and elegance and, yes, nobility to their performances, which taken together form as much a portrait of the Sun King as the palace of Versailles itself.
Pierre Hantaï, Skip Sempé - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Symphonies à deux clavecins (2012)

Pierre Hantaï, Skip Sempé - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Symphonies à deux clavecins (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 466 Mb | Total time: 74:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR164 | Recorded: 2011

The numerous instrumental pieces or 'Symphonies' found in the dramatic works of Rameau are remarkably effective on the harpsichord: the composer himself, with his transcription of 'Les Indes Galantes' invited other musicians to continue this tradition.
Seizing on the formidable array of material available in his operas: Platée, Zoroastre, Dardanus, Les Paladins, Pygmalion… Pierre Hantai and Skip Sempé, our finest exponents of this repertoire, take obvious pleasure in revealing, through the two harpsichords, the immense richness of this music, full of surprises and imagination.
Skip Sempe, Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons - La Belle Danse: Lully, Marais, Muffat (2011)

Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons - La Belle Danse: Lully, Marais, Muffat (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 60:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Paradizo | # PA0010 | Recorded: 2010

Skip Sempé, distinguished for many years as a master interpreter of the French classical harpsichord repertoire, has recently been hailed as the quintessential ambassador of French Baroque music. With his ensemble Capriccio Stravagante, Sempé presents a fascinating collection of orchestral repertoire from the seventeenth century. La Belle Danse revives the tradition of the 24 Violons of Versailles the most celebrated orchestra of seventeenth century Europe. The album transports the listener to Versailles at the time of Louis XIII and Louis XIV with a dazzling tour of ouvertures and suites by Lully, Marais and Muffat. A selection of rare repertoire that influenced the first generation musicians of the 24 Violons is also included, with dance and theatre music by Michael Praetorius, William Brade and Luigi Rossi.
Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent ‎- La Pellegrina, Intermedii 1589 (2007)

Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent ‎- La Pellegrina, Intermedii 1589 (2007)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 405 Mb | Total time: 69:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Paradizo | # PA 0004 | Recorded: 2007

Florence, 19th October 1587: Francesco de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies with his wife under suspicious circumstances. His brother Ferdinando inherits the title, leaves the monkhood for worldly aspirations including finding a wife. On 2nd May 1589, he married Christine of Lorraine, granddaughter of Catherine de Medici, mother of the King of France. As was the custom at European courts, the wedding was accompanied with splendid festivities, each one outshining the last, to convey the image of the new monarchy.

Skip Sempé - A French Collection (2014)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at April 17, 2022
Skip Sempé - A French Collection (2014)

Skip Sempé - A French Collection (2014)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 478 MB | 01:02:03
Genre: Classical | Label: Paradizo

Fans of harpsichord music are likely to be enchanted by A French Collection, which includes 17 pièces de clavecin from the Baroque repertoire, performed by Skip Sempé. Each piece, from Duphly's lovely Les Grâces to Balbastre's turbulent La Suzanne, is charming in itself, and taken together they form an attractive cross-section of French harpsichord music from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Sempé has been a prominent early music interpreter, both a soloist and ensemble leader, with a long line of recordings dating back to 1990.
Skip Sempé - Bach- Tradition & Transcription (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Skip Sempé - Bach- Tradition & Transcription (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 63:48 minutes | 1,26 GB
Classical | Label: Paradizo, Official Digital Download

Skip Sempé performs Gustav Leonhardt's transcriptions of Bach’s unaccompanied violin and cello works for the harpsichord, along with a selection of 17th century harpsichord repertoire in styles influential to Bach.

Skip Sempe - Scarlatti: Duende & Pandora's Box (2007)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Feb. 17, 2018
Skip Sempe - Scarlatti: Duende & Pandora's Box (2007)

Skip Sempe - Scarlatti: Duende & Pandora's Box (2007)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:16:36 | 940 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Paradizo | Catalog: PA0003

This collection of 17 Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas isn't systematically compiled, but includes the favorites of harpsichordist and scholar Skip Sempé, and it's a diverse and attractive selection. Citing the strong Spanish influences on Scarlatti's writing, Sempé describes "Duende" as a Spanish term that refers to the mysterious power of an event or activity to move a person into a state of sensory overload, or even transcendence.

Sempe - HS 18 - Quelques Optimistes  Comics

Posted by Mendose at May 12, 2020
Sempe - HS 18 - Quelques Optimistes

Sempe - HS 18 - Quelques Optimistes
French | CBR | 64 pages | 51.4 MB
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Skip Sempe - Francois Couperin: Concert dans le Gout Theatre (2001)

Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Skip Sempe - Francois Couperin: Concert dans le Gout Theatre (2001)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 60:42 | 331 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Naive | Catalog: E8820

Skip Sempé is a world-renowned virtuoso harpsichord player, ensemble conductor, and the founder of the early music group Capriccio Stravagante. He has won acclaim as a solo harpsichord player with a striking control over the often inflexible tone of the instrument and as an authoritative and stylish interpreter of Baroque-era continuo realizations from figured bass.

Sempe - HS 13 - Quelques Sentiments de Culpabilite  Comics

Posted by Mendose at Sept. 5, 2021
Sempe - HS 13 - Quelques Sentiments de Culpabilite

Sempe - HS 13 - Quelques Sentiments de Culpabilite
French | CBR | 65 pages | 17.6 MB