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Victoria Cassano - mezzosoprano
Lobke Sprenkeling - recorders
Óscar Gallego - viola da gamba
Ramiro Morales - historical plucked instruments
Jorge López-Escribano - positive organ
A colorful, joyful, virtuoso and versatile program in its sweet expression of the English repertoire, showing how the British of the 17th-century version already had their good sense of humour.
Beautiful vocal melodies intertwine with instrumental virtuosity in this 'broken consort' of voice, recorder, gamba, lute and organ, creating a musical experience that will delight the senses and transport the audience to the rich musical tradition of the time.
Dowland’s Can She Excuse: https://youtu.be/N4ugk3UWN1w
Gray’s Inn, The First (Coperario): https://youtu.be/GCibtshgwO8
Dowland’s Robin: https://youtu.be/MVBWmavu6jI
Johnson’s Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow: https://youtu.be/yLvag4apX_E
Locke’s Courante: https://youtu.be/LCmopb-XJ7g
Lobke Sprenkeling: Renaissance recorders, voice
Jorge López-Escribano: organ, harpsichord
With the arrival of the seconda pratica in the early 17th century in Italy, new compositional possibilities were born: the accompanied monody and the liberation of the bass line. The old polyphonic style, composed of multiple lines of equal importance, was stratified towards solo pieces accompanied by a continuous bass, allowing a great expressive and dramatic range, and thus, giving great importance to the language and discourse.
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NOTE: our CD-Album is out!
Io Son Ferito: https://youtu.be/r_Vuvz-sTdU
Ung Gay Bergier: https://youtu.be/-jvOiKz7sz8
Ung Gay Bergier (vocal original): https://youtu.be/fD7yI7HvejI
Victoria Cassano - mezzosoprano
Lobke Sprenkeling - recorder, mezzosoprano
Óscar Gallego - viola da gamba
Ramiro Morales - historical plucked instruments
Jorge López-Escribano - organ
Musickes Delight invites you to participate in “A Pilgrimes Solace”, named after the song book with instrumental accompaniment by John Dowland, taking you on a journey from the most mundane to total transcendence of the idea of love, and life itself. A fascinating program based on this unique document.
Lobke Sprenkeling: recorders, voice
Oscar Gallego: viola da gamba
Jorge López-Escribano: harpsichord
The style of French baroque music is of enormous importance in the European musical Baroque. Contrary to the Italian style, outgoing, virtuous, passionate, even extravagant, the French style is characterized by restraint, refinement and exquisiteness. French music is like a caress, a look that we seem to have imagined, a whisper, a gesture, and above all a dance.
More info: HERE
Lobke Sprenkeling: recorders, voice
Miguel Ángel Orero: psalterium, historical percussion
De toutes flours n’avoit et de tous fruis
En mon vergier fors une seule rose…
Autre apres li jamais avoir ne quier (Guillaume Machaut)
In this program the audience is transported to the flowering gardens of the late Middle Ages, where they will discover many flowers of a singular and unknown beauty.
More info: HERE
Lobke Sprenkeling: recorders, narration, voice, dance
Jorge López-Escribano: harpsichord, narration
Our proposal presents a narrated concert format, which is ideal for the whole family and really for all types of audiences. We will travel through time explaining the evolution of the recorder, from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and arriving at the Baroque era, while showing and playing all the possible sizes from the sopranino to the bass recorder. The performance also includes elements of song and dance that will guide us throughout this wonderful musical journey.
More info: HERE
Bravade: https://youtu.be/E5KJedsSOOY
La Follia: https://youtu.be/HSMrc7Mi1SQ