Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé - Canto a mi Caballero (2000)

Tracklist

01. Pavana con su glosa
02. Differencias sobre el canto llano del Cavallero
03. Romanesca No. 1 O guárdame Las Vacas
04. Dezilde al Cavallero
05. Las Vacas
06. Dulce Memoria
07. Romance Paseábase el Rey Moro
08. Signor mio caro
09. Mille regretz: Canción del Emparador
10. Pavana Italiana
11. Differencias sobre La gallarda milanesa
12. Differencias sobre el canto de La dama la demanda
13. La Cara Cossa
14. Je prens en gré la dure mort
15. Quien llamo al partir partir
16. Recercada segonda sobre Doulce memoire
17. Differencias sobre Las Vacas
18. Missa Dezilde al Caballero: Kyrie - Christe - Kyrie
19. Missa Dezilde al Caballero: Hosanna - Benedictus - Hosanna
20. Missa Dezilde al Caballero: Agnus Dei
21. Anchor che col partire
22. Il bianco e dolce cigno

Canto a mi Caballero is a celebration of instrumental virtuosity at the height of Renaissance humanism. As Franco - Flemish polyphony and the Italian madrigal spread their influence throughout Europe, the most brilliant Spanish musicians (among them the legendary harpsichordist, harpist and organist Antonio de Cabezón, Moral es, Mudarra and Narvaez) were inspired by their foreign contemporaries, as well as by the expression of native Spanish melody such as the mystical ‘Canto de Caballero’. This program presents the Caballero melody in various secular and sacred versions, entwined with some of the most famous music and poetic texts of their time. Canto a mi Caballero retraces that special moment in Renaissance music in which the humanist tendency in instrumental music first attains its singular goal: expressivity that rival s that of the human voice. Capriccio Stravagante's instrumentation, featuring the consort of viols and plucked strings (guitars, harp, vihuela, along with Skip Sempé's solo harpsichord selections), provide for a touching portrayal of the classic Spanish co ncept of the ‘Duende’.

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