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Ensembles
Photographer: Kristin Aafløy Opdan Nattergal Ingeborg Christophersen (recorders), Karolina Radziej (baroque violin), Gunnar Hauge (baroque cello) og Erik Skanke Høsøien (lute and theorbe) Nattergal is a new ensemble created by four of Norway's most respected baroque musicians. The ensemble members have backgrounds as soloists and members of Norways main baroque orchestras. Nattergal wishes to explore the chamber music treasures from the renaissance, baroque and rococco eras. Nattergal's concerts will always explore a certain aspect of music history, such as an important composer's sources of inspiration, the influence of folk music or dance in baroque music or how new musical phenomenons have entered the scene. Nattergal seeks to work with other specialists, like baroque dancers or folk musicians, who contribute with their special knowledge and inspire both the ensemble and the audience.
La Leggerezza is an early music duo consisting of the Italian harpsichordist Alberto Busettini and gamba player Leonardo Bortolotto and the Norwegian recorder player Ingeborg Christophersen. La Leggerezza is exploring the Italian renaissance and baroque music with an enthusiasm for the temperament, heartiness and the improvisatorical elements of the period. The duo draws lines from improvisatorical elements in the high baroque backwards to the pure improvisation forms of the renaissance. Throughly studies of the original Italian improvisation treatises and later compositions and variation pieces, combined with spontain creativity and joy of music makes a catchy and enlightening concert experience. La Leggerezza has many interesting projects in 2009 and 2010, including tours in Norway and Italy, performances with Steffani Ensemble and a CD recording of the recorder works of P. B. Bellinzani.
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