Kapsberger in Rome, 1610 'Il Tedesco'

L'Escadron Volant de La Reine

Kapsberger: Ah, Clori anima mia
Kapsberger: Amor la Donna mia
Kapsberger: Anima mea
Kapsberger: Ballo
Kapsberger: Care lagrime mie
Kapsberger: Chi vi mira ben mio
Kapsberger: Colascione
Kapsberger: Corrente quinta
Kapsberger: Fabricator d'inganni
Kapsberger: Figlio dormi
Kapsberger: Io rido amanti
Kapsberger: La mia leggiadra Filli
Kapsberger: Lunge da voi ben mio
Kapsberger: Nelle guancie di rose
Kapsberger: Occhi soli d'Amore
Kapsberger: Passacaglia No. 10
Kapsberger: Sconsolato mio core
Kapsberger: Se la doglia
Kapsberger: Se turbando Austro le stelle
Kapsberger: Sinfonia No. 13
Kapsberger: Sinfonia No. 9
Kapsberger: Su l'erbe affissomi
Kapsberger: Tu, che pallido essangue
Kapsberger: Ultimi miei sospiri
Kapsberger: Uscita

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.