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"The Ensemble Diapsalmata is made up of professionals medieval music. Text and singing, with the help of reconstructed instruments. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: May 24, 2008 | Hits: 250

"Ensemble Enchiriadis, founded in Rome in 1998 by Andrea De Luca and Silvia Scozzi, perform music of the Middle Ages and the Reinassance particularly related to the cultures of the Mediterranean area. The project is carried on by musicians from different backgrounds, who deal with early music from different points of view: historical, folkloristic, philological, interpretative, including the manufacture of the instruments. " See website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Feb 10, 2008 | Hits: 350

“Ensemble Harmonia Musicae, recently formed, brings together musicians sharing a love for early music repoertoire. The group comes in various configurations, depending on the programs, while paying special attention to vocal music / instruments of the period at the turn of the'600 and'700.“ (Google translation)

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Added on: Jul 03, 2009 | Hits: 310

"Formed in 1993 by Neapolitan musicians dedicated to research in the field of early music, "LeMusiche da Camera" from the outset has directed its activities towards the rediscovery of songs unpublished or little known Neapolitan composers of the XVII and XVIII, with executions based on the recovery of executive baroque practice. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Jun 29, 2008 | Hits: 372

"Les Nations, founded by Maria Luisa Baldassari, is a musical group composed by musicians trained in historical performance of baroque and renaissance music, with an improved experience both in practical music, research fields and teaching in conservatories, musical schools, stages and masterclasses. Les Nations has played in many Italian and European festivals. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Jul 01, 2008 | Hits: 278

"This international group, specialized in medieval and Renaissance music, was founded in 1991. Besides a busy concert calendar, ensemble members collaborate regularly with important educational and scientific institutions, in particular the Centre de Musique Ancienne de Genève, the CERIMM of Royaumont.

Much of LUCIDARIUM’s research and is dedicated to repertoires considered "minor," that were, in reality, powerful vehicles for spreading and evolving new musical concepts during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This music, meant for daily use and wide distribution, represents a mirror of the taste and mentality of the era, at the same time raising a series of questions about the relationship between written music and oral transmission, and about the continuous exchange of forms and themes between the different levels of medieval and Renaissance society. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Early music ensemble from Italy. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Mar 13, 2008 | Hits: 519

“Founded by Antonio Frigé in 1989, as the natural evolution of the Duo Cassone-Frigé, the Ensemble "Pian & Forte" is a group with a variable structure formed by musicians dealing from many years with the study and the development of ancient music. Its aim is the rediscovery and the performance with original instruments of works dating from the early 17th to the late 18th centuries. And such a research, together with the extreme versatility and the fine musicianship of all its components made the Ensemble "Pian & Forte" one of the leading italian groups.

A very big concerts activity has been performed from 1993 for lots of International Festivals (Festival van Vlaanderen - Brugge Tage Alte Musik - Regensburg, Festival "Oude Muziek" - Utrecht, "Autunno Musicale di Como", Serate Musicali - Milano , International Organ Festival" in Aosta,
"Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio" - Milano, MIDEM - Cannes, Teatro Olimpico - Roma, "Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano"). It has moreover appeared in Corsica, France, Holland and Austria.

Up to now the Ens.Pian & Forte has recorded several C.D., issued by Nuova Era Records e Giulia Digital e Agorà with great approvation of the public and of the international critic who has more than once acclaimed them as "CD of the month". The "Pian & Forte" Ensemble plays for Dynamic.“

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Added on: May 17, 2009 | Hits: 250

"The Ensemble Pricipio di Virtù began performing theater for music and narration to become an autonomous form of entertainment. The ensemble performs in churches and castles, ruins and forests, wedding rituals, private parties. ... " (Google translation) Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: May 25, 2008 | Hits: 368

“Roberto Di Cecco | cantus
Huub van der Linden | altus
Nicola Bonazzi | tenor
Marco Spongano | bassus

The Speculum ensemble works with a basic formation of four male voices with precise ranges that correspond to 15th- and 16th-century musical theory and practice. The polyphony of that period is based on a sound ideal in which the homogeneity of the whole is coupled with the perfect autonomy and recognisability of the individual voices. The ensemble is, however, regularly expanded when the music on the programme so requires. In those occasions the group is joined by Giacomo Serra, Christian Gentilini, Sergio Martella, Brent Annable, and others.”

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Added on: Mar 01, 2012 | Hits: 185

" The Ensemble Stampita is a group born in December 2003 dedicated to medieval music. We believe that music medieval-perhaps still little known outside the network of fans-could still be engaging and enjoyable even for a non-specialist public, and therefore is worth propose even outside of contexts so to speak "institutional". ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Europa Galante has performed in many of the world's major concert halls and theatres: La Scala in Milan, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Lincoln Center in New York and the Sydney Opera House. The ensemble has toured throughout Australia, Japan, Canada, Israel, USA and South America and often collaborates with the Ente Santa Cecilia in Rome to find and restore eighteenth-century Italian operas such as Antonio Caldara's La Passione di Gesù Cristo and Leonardo Leo's Sant'Elena al Calvario. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Mar 13, 2008 | Hits: 257

“The Ex Novo Ensemble was founded in Venice in 1979 by the composer Claudio Ambrosini and seven young musicians, who have remained with the Ensemble over since. The Ex Novo Ensemble now represents a point of reference on the international panorama of new music.The continuity obtained by working together, its artistic and professional coherence, have bequeathed a certain character, a "sound", which both public and critics of the major European festivals recognize to the Ensemble.

Their commitment to exploring the language of contemporary music later became the basis for re interpreting classical repertory, particulary those scores composed for rare instrumental sets that, although very beautiful, remain little known.

Many world premieres and works dedicated to the Ex Novo Ensemble have also been presented in recordings of the major European broadcasting corporations.

The Ensemble's contribution to the chamber music of the early Italian nineteen hundreds, as seen by its long collaboration with large recording companies, is significant.”

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"Italian ensemble with variable musicians (from triosonata to chamber orchestra), Festa Rustica is active in the ancient music field since ten years. Its first worldwide recording of the Francesco Mancini recorder concerts was for the Musicaimmagine(MR 1004) music company. The record obtained several positive feedbacks from national and international critics and according to the American magazine “Fanfare” is one of the world’s best classical music recordings produced in 1995 (“the want list 1995”). In addition to the numerous concerts performed in Italy (Settembre Musica, Oratorio del Gonfalone, A. D. M. Di Novara ecc...) and abroad (France, Spain, Albania) Festa Rustica has produced several recordings for Milan’s Agorà and ASV music companies. The founder and director of the ensemble is a recorder and cello player, Giorgio Matteoli, music expert and teacher at the Aquila conservatoire. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“GALATEA, founded and directed by Paul Beier, has performed in prestigious European festivals, and has recorded several CDs dedicated to Biagio Marini (Emanuela Galli, soprano; Monica Huggett, violin), Barbara Strozzi (Emanuela Galli, soprano), and Giovanni Battista Buonamente (Monica Huggett, violin and Bruce Dickey, cornetto). The repertoire of Galatea is centered on innovative Italian music of the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, experimental and virtuosic, of high artistic level, a bridge between the mature Renaissance and the Baroque period. The group comprises different instruments or voices according to the program, giving particular importance to the lute and other plucked stringed instruments for a rich and varied continuo. The name, recalling the legend of Pygmalion, who through his love transformed the marble statue of Galatea into a living person, symbolizes bringing Renaissance and Baroque music to life according to the spirit and practices of the period.“

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Added on: May 18, 2009 | Hits: 229

"The Galinverna music group was born in Turin in 1996, with the purpose to make a research in different directions concerning ethnic and ancient music. By means of musical festivals and historical shows they could perform in most Northern and central Italy and in France, giving concerts of ancient music or playing within historical commemorations, making street animations with traditional music, theatrical co-operations and also concerts of original music, where the interest for the ancient music melts with the interest for Mediterranean and European folk sonorities. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: May 24, 2008 | Hits: 343

“Ghislieri Choir & Consort, Baroque ensemble in residence at the College Ghislieri, provides some of the best singers and instrumentalists Italian Baroque. Has an active project of rediscovery of the sacred choral reperorio the eighteenth century that will be released worldwide by Sony-Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.  …” (Google Translate)

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Added on: Mar 03, 2012 | Hits: 120

"Gruppo Seicento early music ensemble was established in 2002 by the effort of musicians dedicated for a long time to the early music in the will to face the baroque repertoire, with a special interest in Seventeen century Italian music, using original instruments or copies, studying the original sources of this period and performing on historical tunings.

The Gruppo Seicento has played in several early music concert seasons and festivals in Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and South America obtaining unanimous approval from the public and the critic. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Jun 29, 2008 | Hits: 747

"Il Circolo delle Quinte Vuote”is a vocal and instrumental group which was formed in 1992 by musicians who share the same interest for ancient music.

Italian Renaissance and Baroque music, played with copies of original instruments, and according to a filologic lecture, is the main activity of the ensemble

The group gives several concerts every year, in Italy as well as abroad, always meeting the extreme favour of all kind of spectators.

“Il Circolo” took part in theatrical performances, as well as in international festivals such as the International Music Campus in Latina; the Festival Latina Musica Oggi; the second edition of the International Festival of Ancient Music in Avellino; the International Ferrara Buskers’ Festival; in Germany, Dachau and Munchen; in Prague, in the beautiful baroque frame of Nostilz Palace, at the presence of some members of both the italian and the czech Embassies, and of the Italian Culture Institute; in the International Ancient Music Festival in Var in France, etc. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Early Music Ensemble from Italy. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Apr 13, 2008 | Hits: 374

“Il Giardino Armonico was founded in 1985 by Giovanni Antonini (recorder), Paolo Beschi (cello) and Lorenzo Ghielmi (harpsichord), joined after a short time by the lutist Luca Pianca and the violinist Enrico Onofri, and brings together musicians from some of Europe’s leading music institutions, all of them specialized in performing on period instruments. The ensemble’s repertory is mainly focused on the 17th and 18th centuries. Depending on the demands of each programme, the group will consist of anywhere from 3 to 35 musicians. …”

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Added on: Feb 04, 2012 | Hits: 187

"Born in Sardinia, Paola Erdas was awarded her diploma in harpsichord at the Conservatory of Venice in 1991. From 1992 to 1996, thanks to a five-year scholarship, she studied under Kenneth Gilbert at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since 1996 she has been a member of the ensemble L'Apothéose, recording for the Stradivarius label. In the same year, together with recorder virtuoso Lorenzo Cavasanti, she founded the JANAS ensemble. The group, which collaborates with the theatre and historical dance specialist Deda Colonna, soon became multi-instrumental, with the sound of the harpsichord augmented by voice,winds,strings and percussion , in performances combining poetry, dance and music of the late Renaissance and Baroque periods in the Mediterranean area. ...

She is presently working on a critical edition of the "Pièces de Clavessin" by N. A. Lebègue, the first volume of which has been already been published by Ut Orpheus Edizioni and recently recorded by her on the Stradivarius label.

Paola Erdas teaches thorough-bass at the Conservatory of Trieste. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Apr 13, 2008 | Hits: 308

“L’Astrée was born in Turin in 1991 and specializes in early music instrumental repertoire with the use of original instruments.

The ensemble takes its name from a combination of François Couperin Le Grand  and that of the one of his trio sonatas called L'Astrée.”

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Added on: Apr 24, 2011 | Hits: 265

"The Cultural Association of "Orchestra Barocca La Confraternita de' Musici" is not for profit and aims to promote the musical culture through diversified solutions such as research, concerts, conferences, meetings, records, courses and competitions.

Founded by Cosimo Prontera, the Ensemble makes its debut at the “Leonardo Leo” Barocco Festival 1997. The ensemble plays on period instruments esploring the important and unknown repertoire of apulian composers acttive in Naples during the XVII and XVIII century. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Jul 01, 2008 | Hits: 293

"THE DULCAMARA training is instrumental, composed primarily of reeds and percussion, who wants to convey the variety of colors and sensations of representations itinerant street in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and early Baroque. ... " (Google translation) Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: May 24, 2008 | Hits: 252