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)
