Roman accounts of the nobleman Kapsperger reveal a highly eccentric musician: a virtuoso theorbist, a singer, a successful composer, he was said to be arrogant, even irascible . . . A character straight out of a novel, as the musicians of L’Escadron Volant de la Reine present him in their first album on harmonia mundi, aided and abetted by a distinguished partner: on this colourful disc, the madrigals, villanellas and arias of ‘Il Tedeschino’ (The German) meet the literary fantasy of the writer Carl Norac.
GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER [1580-1651]· Lunge da voi ben mio (1’24)
· Ballo (1’38)
· La mia leggiadra Filli (1’40)
· Nelle guancie di rose (1’31)
· Sinfonia n° 13 (1’48)
· Chi vi mira ben mio (1’31)
· Uscita (1’13)
· Ultimi miei sospiri (2’23)
· Su l’erbe affissomi (3’27)
· Sconsolato mio core (1’21)
· Fabricator d’inganni (2’58)
· Sinfonia n° 9 (6’17)
· Care lagrime mie (2’20)
· Occhi soli d’Amore (4’33)
· Se la doglia (2’14)
· Passacaglia n° 10 (5’43)
· Io rido amanti (1’17)
· Amor la Donna mia (1’40)
· Tu, che pallido essangue (3’34)
· Anima mea (3’18)
· Figlio dormi (5’21)
· Colascione (1’46)
· Ah, Clori anima mia (1’25)
· Corrente quinta (1’12)
· Se turbando Austro le stelle (2’26)