Les Kapsber’girls: Vox feminae | Alpha ALPHA1098

Les Kapsber’girls: Vox feminae

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA1098

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th March 2025

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About

After their explorations of Italian repertoire in Che fai tù? (MU037) and French in Vous avez dit brunettes? (ALPHA761), Les Kapsber'girls, a vocal and instrumental ensemble founded by lutenist Albane Imbs in 2015, devotes its third album to Baroque women composers: hidden talents, unrevealed destinies, few of these composers have had the opportunity to reveal their art, which is nevertheless very real. Recent research has made it possible to revive the fascinating works of composers such as Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), Lucia Quinciani (1566-1611), Francesca Caccini (1587-1641), Antonia Bembo (c.1643-1715), and Francesca Campana (c.1615-c.1665), who spent sixty-nine years of her life in an Ursuline convent in Novara, although this did not prevent her from composing no fewer than two hundred works!

Reviews

It’s a clever programme too: an Italian vocal selection is punctuated by German instrumental works by the group’s namesake, Hieronymus Kapsberger. The vocal pieces are all by Baroque female composers ranging from the better-known Barbara Strozzi to the less familiar Lucia Quinciani, and every piece is engaging and exciting ... This album is superb on every level...  Edward Breen
Gramophone June 2025
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