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Les Kapsber'girls

EARLY MUSIC

Vox Feminae

For the most part forgotten by history, they have nevertheless left to posterity works that could have been called masterpieces, witnesses of their life paths that the Encyclopaedias have forgotten to record.

They are the Italian women who, during the Seicento, composed with their soul and their talent, with music as their only source of expression in a world where their genius was often not recognised.

These are They...
Francesca Caccini (1587-1641), the Roman, who met with great and rare success as a musician at the Medici court.
Francesca Campana (c. 1615-1665), who is lost after her marriage and who published her only book of villanelles in Rome at the age of 14!
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), a unique figure of independence, a complete and accomplished artist, in a Venice ruled by men and the Church.
Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) who spent 69 years in an Ursuline convent in Novara and wrote no less than 200 religious works there!
Finally, she is Antonia Bembo (1643-1715) who dedicated her work to the Sun King, whose protégé she was.

In this programme, punctuated by biographical accounts, the Kapsber'girls draw up a musical portrait of these six Italian women composers, who, among many others, have participated in the history of music.

This programme will be the subject of a disc to be released in the spring of 2025 by Alpha Classic.

Concert 1h20, with or without intermission, with guest harpist (5 musicians).

Cast
Alice Duport-Percier, Soprano
Axelle Verner, Mezzo-soprano
Garance Boizot, Viole de gambe
Albane Imbs, Theorbo, tiorbino, baroque guitar and direction

Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
Ad Arma

Andrea Falconieri (1585-1656)
La mala spina, Corrente instrumental

Francesca Campana (1615-1665)
Amor se questa sera

Francesca Caccini (1587-1641)
Ch’amor sia nudo, canzonetta

Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651)
Passacaglia in E minor, instrumental

Francesca Campana
Voi luci altere

Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Che si puo fare

Ercole Pasquini (1560-1619)
Toccata, instrumental

B. Strozzi
Sonetto Proemio Dell'Opera, Mercè di voi

H. Kapsberger
Corrente Quinta

Antonia Bembo (ca. 1643-1715)
Habbi pietà di mè
In amor ci vuol ardir

Francesca Campana
Fanciulla Vezzosa

H. Kapsberger
Corrente prima, instrumental
Gagliarda Quarta, instrumental

B. Strozzi
Godere e tacere, Gioisca

Press

Cécile Glaenzer, resmusica.com, Août 2024

Les Kapsber'girls font briller les compositrices italiennes du seicento (...) L'accompagnement des cordes pincées est un régal, et c'est souvent en pizzicati que Garance Boizot joue sa basse de viole. Albane Imbs passant du théorbe au tiorbino et à la guitare baroque. Le programme, parfaitement construit, bénéficie d'un art maîtrisé des enchaînements entre pièces instrumentales et vocales. Un bonheur!

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Vox Feminae - Les Kapsber'girls

Meeting with Les Kapsber'girls

04.12

A la luz del dia - The Kapsber'girls: focus program

In this final instalment of the trilogy devoted to popular repertoires revived throughout Europe at the beginning of the 17th…

In this final instalment of the trilogy devoted to popular repertoires revived throughout Europe at the beginning of the 17th century, Les Kapsber'girls take us on a journey to the end of the Spanish Golden Age, focusing on one of the most important genres of the period: the Tonos Humanos.

In contrast to the Tonos Divinos, the term Tonos Humanos covers the vernacular strophic songs appropriated by Spanish composers of the period, such as the Villanelles in Italy and the Brunettes in France.

In this programme, with the shimmering colours of a Spain still ablaze, the quartet pays tribute to the key composers who shaped the Iberian musical repertoire: Juan Arañés (...-1649), José Marin (1619-1699), Mateo Romero (1575-1647) and others.

With their characteristic taste for sonic textures, Les Kapsber'girls invite two additional instruments to join them: the harp and percussion, offering themselves the opportunity to enrich their palette of colours. Instrumental music was not forgotten by composers such as Gaspar Sanz (ca 1640-1710) and Diego Fernandez De Huete (1635-1713), who drew inspiration from fashionable songs and dances, leaving in their wake a wealth of tunes for guitar and harp, two emblematic instruments of Spanish Baroque music.

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Photo H. Caldaguès