John Dowland - Domenico Gabrielli - Antonio Vivaldi - Arcangelo Corelli - Johann Rosenmüller - Girolamo Frescobaldi - Biagio Marini - Antonio Bertali - Dario Castello - Giovanni Paolo Cima - Gregory Howet

Con Chitarrone - Italian sonatas from early renaissance to baroque

Leupold Trio

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917236927

Catalog number: CC 72369
Releasedate: 29-10-10

“The Italian feeling,” they call it. The age of the architecture, the public squares, the light, the romance of Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples. The sensation is very much alive in the members of the Leupold Trio. The music of that time, the Mediterranean. There lies the passion of these musicians, and they recover something in it that had been lost. Using the Chitarrone/lute instead of harpsichord gives the music a different, lively flavour. What was lost is certainly recovered with this enchanting cd.

Eva Stegeman, Wouter Mijnders, Sören Leupold are three excellent musicians who are also part of the renowned Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Sören Leupold also played with some of the leading early music ensembles such as Cantus Cöln, Musica Antiqua Köln, Collegium Vocale Gent and La Fenice in Germany
The three musicians are experts in the field of early music
With this repertoire the ability to improvise and experimet is very important and crucial so that is a focuspoint of the trio
Dynamical, 'living', 'breathing' music can be heard on this cd, past times revive through this sparkling music

The Leupold Trio made its debut in 2003 at the International Guitar Festival ‘SaitenSprünge’ in Bad Aibling (Germany) and was an immediate hit. The trio is made up of members from the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam. The Leupold Trio performed in prestigious concert venues, like the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) as well as numerous museums, historic manorhouses, picturesque churches and castles. They appeared with great success on the Ravello Festival 2009 (on the Amalfi coast, Italy), in Granada (Spain) and in Algeria. Sören Leupold studied in Osnabrück and Cologne. He can be heard playing the chitarrone, Baroque lute and guitar with some of the leading early music ensembles such as Cantus Cöln, Musica Antiqua Köln, Collegium Vocale Gent and La Fenice in Germany, The Netherlands, Flanders and England. The violinist Eva Stegeman is concertmaster of Sinfonia Rotterdam and director of the European Union Chamber Orchestra, which she conducts from her first-seat position. In 2003, she founded the annual International Chamber Music Festival The Hague, of which she is artistic leader. Stegeman plays a late 17th-century violin made by Giovanni Battista Rogeri (Brescia). Wouter Mijnders is at home with the entire cello repertoire, from the Baroque to the present day. He has made a specialty of playing the violoncello piccolo and recorded with the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam the first CD of the unique Concerto in C for violoncello piccolo by Sammartini. With the bowed and plucked strings, these style-conscious musicians perform the most beautiful of the well-known and most exciting of the lesser known works of the 17th and 18th centuries. ‘Absolute harmony and perfect magic in sound,’ wrote the Oberbayerisches Volksblatt in 2004. ‘A veritable feast for the senses.’

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