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Ensemble ONI WYTARS was founded in 1983 to give a new and impulsive expression to Early Music. The focal point of our work has always been to explore and unite the many traditions that have influenced and enriched European medieval musical culture, especially the relationship between art music and popular music in the commuting area of Mediterranean culture.
After working for years with the rich repertoire of the Italian "trecento," the pilgrim songs from 13th and 14th-century Spanish and Catalan manuscripts, medieval Troubadour and Trouvère melodies, we finally took one step further to explore the immense heritage of Renaissance and early Baroque music. To us, it seems natural to research within today's Italian, Spanish, and French folk traditions whose roots we can find undoubtedly in the music of the 15th and 16th centuries. The result is a Mediterranean sound-cosmos made out of melodies, rhythms, and improvisations, archaic pre-medieval hymns to the sun, and 14th-century Tarantellas, monodic medieval songs, and abounding polyphonic Villanelle from the Early Baroque, performed on instruments that have outlasted millennia. The core of Ensemble Oni Wytars are Marco Ambrosini, Katharina Dustmann, Peter Rabanser, Michael Posch, and Riccardo Delfino.
For our concerts and CD projects, we like to invite renowned musicians of both Early and Folk music. Collaborating with outstanding masters such as the Roman singer Gabriella Aiello, Sardinian "launeddas" player Luigi Lai, the Crete-based duo Ross Daly & Kelly Thoma (Cretan lyra, tarhu), the tamburello virtuoso Carlo Rizzo, Michael Behringer (organ, harpsichord), and Ian Harrison (cornetto, shawm, bagpipes), the two albums "Mediterraneum" (SONY/DHM 2011) and "La Follia - the Triumph of Folly" (SONY/DHM 2013) have been realized.
After working for years with the rich repertoire of the Italian "trecento," the pilgrim songs from 13th and 14th-century Spanish and Catalan manuscripts, medieval Troubadour and Trouvère melodies, we finally took one step further to explore the immense heritage of Renaissance and early Baroque music. To us, it seems natural to research within today's Italian, Spanish, and French folk traditions whose roots we can find undoubtedly in the music of the 15th and 16th centuries. The result is a Mediterranean sound-cosmos made out of melodies, rhythms, and improvisations, archaic pre-medieval hymns to the sun, and 14th-century Tarantellas, monodic medieval songs, and abounding polyphonic Villanelle from the Early Baroque, performed on instruments that have outlasted millennia. The core of Ensemble Oni Wytars are Marco Ambrosini, Katharina Dustmann, Peter Rabanser, Michael Posch, and Riccardo Delfino.
For our concerts and CD projects, we like to invite renowned musicians of both Early and Folk music. Collaborating with outstanding masters such as the Roman singer Gabriella Aiello, Sardinian "launeddas" player Luigi Lai, the Crete-based duo Ross Daly & Kelly Thoma (Cretan lyra, tarhu), the tamburello virtuoso Carlo Rizzo, Michael Behringer (organ, harpsichord), and Ian Harrison (cornetto, shawm, bagpipes), the two albums "Mediterraneum" (SONY/DHM 2011) and "La Follia - the Triumph of Folly" (SONY/DHM 2013) have been realized.
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