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Chamber ensemble focused on music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque music, artistic director Michal Pospisil

What we offer:

• Concerts
• Educational concerts
• Theater and puppet shows
• Music and dance workshops
• Processions
• Tafel music

Cast:

• 2 to 7 musicians (depending on program)

Instruments:

• Lute, theorbo, baroque guitar, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes Renaissance, Baroque moldánky, Organ, cornet, Dulcian, Renaissance trombones, Shalmai, flutes, fistula, violas da braccio and da gamba, violin Baron, drums
• Vocals: mostly in Czech, but also in Latin, Italian, English and German.

The ensemble plays in costumed historical instruments or faithful replicas.

Technical requirements:

• We play in any areas inside and outside in the covered areas.

Programs:

• Adam Michna from Otradovice: Czech Lute -1653 (cycle of 13 songs and dances)
      Heaven kavalérové; Oh how my heart burns within; Arise loving heart;
• Juz MASOPUST has occurred 1680 (a carnival banquet songs)
• Nativity scenes, old, new song (Christmas dances from Czech Baroque hymn book)
• Up to (er) BIRDS! (Czech Baroque hunting and Poacher songs)
• Michna CHRISTMAS MASS - MISSA SUPER "Even the sun came out from the stars' -1654 (reconstruction of the famous Baroque Mass)
      Already the sun came out from the star (Karel Holan Rovensky), ; Kyrie; Gloria;
• DAVID SALOMON ET (royal love poetry in the mirror of music 16th-18th centuries)
• Hymnal-TANCIONÁL (the largest dance "hits" of the Renaissance and Baroque art in the service of spiritual poetry)
• Amorosi Respiro MUSICAL (Musick court suit in the Renaissance Prague).
• Vesperae Bohemicae (reconstruction solemn Vespers music in Baroque Bohemia)
• Giovanni Legrenzi: Vesperae-1655-57 (reconstruction festive Italian concertante Vespers)
• OPTIMUM OPUS-1550-1650 (polyphonic and solo music of the Renaissance and Mannerism Baroque-birth)
• Musica ad Tabulam (feast, dancing and listening "pop-music" Renaissance and Baroque)
• Vesperae ITALICAE (reconstruction of the Italian Baroque Vespers)
• Dances of Death (invite (them) to her dance)
• FIORI musical (music and flowers, flowers in the music of the Baroque)
• JAKOB Rebro (spiritual music as a bridge between Heaven and Earth, a mark of respect to the created World)
• MAJÁLES, this is a Maj Les (sweet songs about nature in nature)
• TUBA Canio (inträde and dances presented by Renaissance "brass")
• DANIELE (Italian Baroque oratorio anonymous author)
• F. Kadlinský "ZDOROSLAVÍČEK" - 1661 (sweet and popular spiritual love songs)
• BA © CHANALISTICA (Drinking and feasting songs, chants and dances of Baroque Bohemia)
      Festa Bacchanalia;; Nos sumus studios;; reading "Happy student; ;
• Ship of Fools (Mirror of eternal human folly in music, inspired by engravings A. Dürer)

Further information: http://web.quick.cz/ritornello/