Les Kapsber'girls
EARLY MUSICIn the Garden of Delights
Between piety and eroticism...
Through selected pieces, inspired by one of the most surprising books of the Old Testament, the Song of Songs, the Kapsber'girls invite you to enter the heart of a Garden of Delights where spirituality and sensuality come together to become one.
The intimate atmosphere of candlelight opens up a dreamlike and poetic world produced by the musical universe of the greatest Italian and French Baroque composers such as Hieronymus Kapsberger, André Campra, Claudio Monteverdi and Francesca Rusca.
These four-century-old arias and motets are echoed by Freddy Eichelberger's virtuoso organ improvisations, taking us into a timeless space.
Concert by candlelight, 1h15 without intermission with a guest artist: the organist Freddy Eichelberger (5 musicians).
Cast
Alice Duport-Percier, Soprano
Axelle Verner, Mezzo-soprano
Garance Boizot, Viola da gamba
Albane Imbs, Theorbo, direction
Freddy Eichelberger, Organ
André Campra (1660-1744)
Cari Zephiri volate, motet for 2 voices
Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651)
Nigra sum sed formosa
Libro Primo di Mottetti passeggiati a una voce
Claudia Rusca (1593-1676)
Surge amica mea
Sacri Concerti
Claudio Monteverdi
Quam pulchra es
Sacrae cantiunculae tribes vocibus, liber primus
André Campra (1660-1744)
Tota pulchra es amica mea
Collection of motets
Surge propera
Giulio S. Pietro del Negro (~1570 – ~1620)
Veniat dilectus meus
Lorenzo Calvi
Symbolae diversorum musicorum
Francesca Rusca (1593-1676)
Ego Dormio
Sacri concerti a 2 voci
Hieronimus Kapsberger
Anima mea liquefacta est
Libro Primo di Motteti passeggiati a una voce
Alessandro Grandi (1586-1630)
Quae is ista
Il terzo libro de motetti a due, tre, et quattro voci, … per sonar nell’organo...
Tarquino Merula (1595-1665)
Fuge and come dilect mi
Opera 1
Concerts
Ribeauvillé, France
Festival de Ribeauvillé
NEWS
VOX FEMINAE: new release!
After exploring Italian repertoires in Che fai tù? (Muso) and French in Vous avez dit brunettes? (Alpha Classics), Les Kapsber'girls…
Read moreAfter exploring Italian repertoires in Che fai tù? (Muso) and French in Vous avez dit brunettes? (Alpha Classics), Les Kapsber'girls dedicate their third recording to baroque composers: hidden talents, unrevealed destinies, few of these composers had the opportunity to reveal their art, yet it is very real.
Recent research has brought to life the fascinating works of composers such as Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), Lucia Quinciani (1566-1611), Francesca Caccini (1587-1641), Antonia Bembo (c.1643-1715) and Francesca Campana (c.1615-c.1665), who spent 69 years of her life in an Ursuline convent in Novara, which did not prevent her from composing no less than two hundred works!
