Skip Sempé, The Playing Byrd & Chambonnières, concert trailer Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2026 EMTV

How do you coax a keyboard into sounding at its best? William Byrd and Jacques Champion de Chambonnières answer that question in different ways. With Byrd, voices intertwine in fantasies, pavans and virtuosic variations. Chambonnières plays the elegance card with dances and melodies that seem to float. Under the hands of Skip Sempé, the two pioneers meet in repertoire that illustrates the emancipation of the harpsichord. Harpsichords: Boccalari 1699 & Karman after Couchet ‘petit ravalement’ 1652 Early Music Television Watch this concert on Early Music Television (EMTV)! EMTV is the no. 1 streaming platform for early music. Discover over 500 unique concerts with music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque. In premium quality audio and video, featuring classics and great names as well as new discoveries and intimate recitals – available worldwide! Watch the full concert recording via www.emtv.online About the performer Harpsichordist and conductor Skipe Sempé blends nonchalance and virgour both in his solo appearances and those with his own ensemble Capriccio Stravagante. Paradizo, Sempé’s own CD label, has released CDs of his own ensemble, as well as several solo programmes of French, English, German and Italian harpsichord music.