Johann(es) Hieronymus Kapsberger (also: Giovanni Girolamo or Giovanni Geronimo Kapsperger), (c. 1580 – 17 January 1651) was a German-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period. A prolific and highly original composer, Kapsberger is chiefly remembered today for his lute, theorbo and chitarrone music, which was seminal in the development of these as solo instruments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hieronymus_Kapsberger

BrandySpears wrote:Organ playing he said, "...is nothing remarkable..., all one has to do is hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself." - JS Bach

JayWilson wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ySAzIUS_U[/youtube]

tuco wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic0ZtdY6PNg[/youtube]

THWOTH wrote:.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeoT66v4EHg[/youtube]

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THWOTH wrote:Swoon!

THWOTH wrote:I can't find it in my Schirmer index but the Wiki page is quite good on this and links to sheet music archive, where I've downloaded a recorder transcriptions. I might even play it, record myself, and post it here. In the meantime I'm going to play the clip again and imagine it's being sung just for me - whatever it's about.

Intérpretes:
- Montserrat Figueras (Soprano).
- Andrew Lawrence-King (Arpa).
- Pedro Estevan (Percusión).

Yo soy la locura,
la que sola infundo
placer y dulzura
y contento al mundo.

Sirven a mi nombre
todos mucho o poco,
y no, no hay hombre
que piense ser loco.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nASaTyi9ffY]

I am crazy
which only infuse
pleasure and sweetness
and content to the world.

Serving my name
all more or less,
and no, no man
think being crazy.

the YouTube blurb wrote:"Walk to the Paradise Garden" is the orchestral interlude between Scenes 5 and 6 of the opera "A Village Romeo and Juliet". The Paradise Garden is actually a dilapidated Pub where the lover's Sali and Vreli can "dance all night". The rural lover's have known each other since childhood and are willing to die together rather than give in to the pressures that will separate them. This interlude seems to synthesize many elements found in the opera, the "Paradise Garden", a seedy country dance hall where the two lovers make a pact to do themselves in, a plot of land where they played together during their childhood, the Dark Fiddler and his symbolic social conflicts, the hay barge which will sink in the river and carry them to their death, and most of all, the heartbreak of Love; painful it weaves in long almost unbearable phrases, an operatic play within a play based on the definition of the words "Paradise Garden".

Paintings: Works by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836- 1893)