Les Kapsber'girls - Vox Feminae (2025) [Official Digital Download]

The fruit of passionately commited research exploring mainly pre-baroque and baroque repertoire, the ensemble, formed in 2015 at the initiative of lutenist Albane Imbs, has a permanent core of four women musicians, with guest artists according to the nature of each project.

Les Kapsber’girls look for new approaches to the interpretation of historic sources. Drawing their inspiration from traditional repertoire, the four musicians cast a lateral-thinking look on the works of the 17th and 18th centuries, bridging periods in new and unexpected ways, and having fun with a diversity of genres. They harness the energy and vitality of popular music, and have a restless enthusiasiasm for seeking out the new in the music of past ages.

Their name? A nod in the direction of one of the most celebrated Italian composers of the early 17th century, Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651), to whom they paid honour in their first disc, Che fai tù? (2020), whose many awards included a Diapason d’Or, a ffff by Télérama and a Joker Découverte from Crescendo Magazine.

Their second album dedicated to French ‘brunettes’ (popular 18th-century songs in a rustic vein) was issued in 2021 on the Alpha Classics label, earning many enthusiastic reviews in the press (awarded 5 stars in Classica, 5 in Diapason, acclaimed by Gramophone, Le Figaro, etc.), as well as wide public success.

Les Kapsber’girls are regularly offered periods of residential study and research to pursue their artistic work. Since the ensemble’s foundation, they have been hosted by the Académie Bach in Arques-la-Bataille, the Cité de la Voix in Vézelay, Sinfonia in Périgord, the CCR in Ambronay, the CCR Farm of Villefavard and the CCR of the Abbaye aux Dames in Saintes.

TRACKLIST

1. Les Kapsber'girls - Strozzi: Il Primo Libro de Madrigali, a due, tre, quattro, e cinque voce: Sonetto. Proemio dell’opera
2. Les Kapsber'girls - Bembo: In amor ci vuol ardir
3. Les Kapsber'girls - Bembo: Amor mio, facciam la pace
4. Les Kapsber'girls - Kapsberger: Corrente quinta
5. Les Kapsber'girls - Strozzi: Il Primo Libro de Madrigali, a due, tre, quattro, e cinque voce: Canto di bella bocca
6. Les Kapsber'girls - Kapsberger: Corrente quarta
7. Les Kapsber'girls - Leonarda: Ad arma, o spiritus
8. Les Kapsber'girls - Strozzi: Che si può fare?
9. Les Kapsber'girls - Campana: Voi luci altere
10. Les Kapsber'girls - Kapsberger: Gagliarda quarta
11. Les Kapsber'girls - Caccini: Primo Libro delle Musiche: Ch’amor sio nudo
12. Les Kapsber'girls - Kapsberger: Ballo secondo
13. Les Kapsber'girls - Campana: Fanciulla vezzosa
14. Les Kapsber'girls - Kapsberger: Corrente prima
15. Les Kapsber'girls - Bembo: Habbi pietà di me
16. Les Kapsber'girls - Kapsberger: Ballo terzo
17. Les Kapsber'girls - Campana: Amor se questa sera
18. Les Kapsber'girls - Pasquini: Toccata prima
19. Les Kapsber'girls - Quiciani: Udite lagrimosi spiriti d’Auverno
20. Les Kapsber'girls - Kapsberger: Gagliarda sesta



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