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Paradizo features the recordings of Skip Sempé as harpsichordist, chamber musician and conductor Essential listening.

PARADIZO
International CD & Digital Distribution: Outhere Music
Complete catalogue available on Apple Music

Paradizo: Exuberant music making. Paradizo features the recordings of Skip Sempé as solo harpsichordist, chamber musician, conductor and director of the ensembles that he founded: Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons

. Artists include Julien Martin, Josh Cheatham, Olivier Fortin, Sophie Gent, Doron Sherwin and Collegium Vocale Gent. The Paradizo label was created by Skip Sempé after fifteen years of recording for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée and Alpha Classics, many of which were distinguished with dozens of international awards. The label focuses on repertoire that is rarely heard in concert performances. Each title in the Paradizo catalogue is an indispensable reference for authoritative, bold music making, celebrating Skip Sempé and Capriccio Stravagante’s renewed vision of creative interpretation of Renaissance and Baroque music. Hailed as “beautiful in conception and execution” since the very first releases, Paradizo has scored the highest marks throughout the major international music press. Paradizo forged an immediate reputation that ensured fifteen years of continued success through rave reviews, prestigious prizes and impressive sales.

“In creating his own label, Skip Sempé has finally found an artistic framework custom tailored to his requirements: splendid packaging and presentation, sumptuous recordings and booklets featuring interviews which reflect both dramatic new departures and profound reflection…” - Diapason

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PARADIZO
Distribution internationale CD & Digitale : Outhere Music
Catalogue intégral disponible sur Apple Music

Paradizo est le label produisant les enregistrements de Skip Sempé - claveciniste, musicien de chambre, chef d'orchestre, fondateur et directeur musical du Capriccio Stravagante, du Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra et du Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons. Avec Julien Martin, Josh Cheatham, Olivier Fortin, Sophie Gent, Doron Sherwin et Collegium Vocale Gent. Après quinze ans de prestigieuses distinctions et de reconnaissance internationale pour ses enregistrements réalisés pour les labels Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée et Alpha Classics, Skip Sempé a créé Paradizo, voulant ainsi clairement afficher sa démarche musicale personnelle présentant une vision toujours renouvelée et créative de ses interprétations du répertoire de la musique de la Renaissance et du Baroque. Pour Paradizo, la presse internationale est unanime depuis quinze ans :
"S'efforçant de transposer la spontanéité de la musique vivante à la musique enregistrée", Skip Sempé fait partie de cette poignée de musiciens classiques particulièrement attentifs au travail d'enregistrement. Il défend en effet le point de vue que les enregistrements, lorsqu'ils sont préparés et réalisés dans les meilleures conditions, peuvent offrir une dimension supplémentaire à la sensation d'intimité et de communication immédiate, offrant ainsi à l'auditeur une expérience identique à celle de la musique vivante.

10/06/2023

New Release - 25 August 2023

Canto a mi Caballero
The Tradition of Antonio de Cabezón
Cabezón, Arcadelt, Rore, Gombert, Narvaez, Mudarra, Ortiz, Morales
Skip Sempé, harpsichord
Capriccio Stravagante
Paradizo PA0021
International CD & Digital distribution: Outhere Music

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, Morales, 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 rivals 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 concept of the ‘Duende’.

13/01/2023

Renaissance English Recorders
Holborne, Dowland, Byrd, Ravenscroft, Ferrabosco, Henry VIII
Résonances Consort
Julien Martin, Marine Sablonnière, Evolène Kiener, Pierre Boragno, Benoît Toïgo, recorders
Skip Sempé, Olivier Fortin, Emmanuel Frankenberg, virginals & harpsichord
Paradizo PA0020
International CD & Digital distribution: Outhere Music

Skip Sempé has invited the Résonances Consort for a recording on the Paradizo label.
Renaissance English Recorders with Julien Martin and the Résonances Consort revisits almost a century of music making and music publishing, corresponding roughly to the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
The repertoire is selected from various sources including two highly important publications of instrumental music: John Dowland’s Lachrimae from 1604 and Anthony Holborne’s Pavans, Galliards & Almains from 1599.
The tradition of playing harpsichords in ‘consort’ was widespread in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To recreate that sound, Skip Sempé, Olivier Fortin and Emmanuel Frankenberg perform music played on virginals and harpsichord.

17/05/2022

Elizabethan Organ Music
Byrd, Bull, Gibbons, Tomkins, Philips, Farnaby, Munday
Gustav Leonhardt, organ (Arp & Frans Caspar Schnitger, Zwolle, Holland)
Paradizo PA0019
International CD & Digital distribution: Outhere Music

A rare, remastered organ recording of Gustav Leonhardt from 1962, on one of Holland's most important historic instruments.
His only anthology of English Renaissance repertoire on the organ, including works unique to this recording.
This recording has not previously been available on CD or digitally, and has not appeared in any of the various ‘Gustav Leonhardt Editions’ issued by the labels for which he later recorded.
Booklet includes two essays by Skip Sempé - ‘Gustav Leonhardt and European cultural heritage’ and ‘Leonhardt the Connoisseur’.

05/04/2022

New review, by one of my favorite critics, Biberfan. A real model - for listening and well-written commentary - for any reviewer. I always enjoy reading him, about any recording from anyone. And someone who knows how to listen to the harpsichord.
http://www.biberfan.org/reviews/2022/3/22/semp-plays-a-recital-featuring-bach-and-the-influence-of-leonhardt

I write about the music I like and have purchased for the benefit of better understanding it and sharing my preferences with others.

31/03/2022

Musica - 5 Stelle.

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PARADIZO Distribution CD : Outhere Music Distribution digitale : harmonia mundi Paradizo est le label produisant les enregistrements de Skip Sempé - claveciniste, fondateur et directeur musical du Capriccio Stravagante, du Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra et du Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons. Après quinze ans de prestigieuses distinctions et de reconnaissance internationale pour ses enregistrements réalisés pour les labels Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée et Alpha, Skip Sempé a créé Paradizo, voulant ainsi clairement afficher sa démarche musicale personnelle présentant une vision toujours renouvelée et créative de ses interprétations du répertoire de la musique de la Renaissance et du Baroque. Pour Paradizo, la presse internationale est unanime depuis dix ans : Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Diapason, Classica, Télérama, Nouvel Observateur, New York Times, Guardian, Times, Independent, Fono Forum, de Volkskrant, Toronto Star. “S'efforçant de transposer la spontanéité de la musique vivante à la musique enregistrée”, Skip Sempé fait partie de cette poignée de musiciens classiques particulièrement attentifs au travail d'enregistrement. Il défend en effet le point de vue que les enregistrements, lorsqu'ils sont préparés et réalisés dans les meilleures conditions, peuvent offrir une dimension supplémentaire à la sensation d'intimité et de communication immédiate, offrant ainsi à l'auditeur une expérience identique à celle de la musique vivante. * * * * * PARADIZO CD Distribution: Outhere Music Digital Distribution: harmonia mundi Paradizo: Exuberant music making. Essential listening. Hailed as “beautiful in conception and execution” since the very first releases, Paradizo has scored the highest marks throughout the major international music press - Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Diapason, Classica, Télérama, Nouvel Observateur, New York Times, Guardian, Times, Independent, Fono Forum, de Volkskrant, Toronto Star. Paradizo forged an immediate reputation that ensured ten years of continued success through rave reviews, prestigious prizes and impressive sales. The label focuses on repertoire that is rarely heard in concert performances. The Paradizo label was created by Skip Sempé after fifteen years of recording for three major labels, many of which were distinguished with dozens of international awards. Paradizo features the recordings of Skip Sempé as solo harpsichordist, chamber musician and director of the ensembles which he founded: Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons. Each title in the Paradizo catalogue is an indispensable reference for authoritative, bold music making, celebrating Skip Sempé and Capriccio Stravagante’s renewed vision of creative interpretation of Renaissance and Baroque music. “In creating his own label, Skip Sempé has finally found an artistic framework custom tailored to his requirements: splendid packaging and presentation, sumptuous recordings and booklets featuring interviews which reflect both dramatic new departures and profound reflection…” - Diapason