ACCENTUS ENSEMBLE Ensemble Accentus
Ensemble Accentus was established in Vienna in 1988 and now
consists of thirteen musicians, appearing in various groupings. On some occasions
guest artists join the ensemble to contribute specialised skills or complete
the demands of the repertoire, Of particular interest is the early music of
Spain, with its fertile mixture of cultures, a source of wider inspiration to
music of the Renaissance; Accentus has paid special attention to the improvisatory
element in performance practice of the period. The repertoire of the ensemble
ranges from the surviving oral tradition of Sephardic romances, art and popular
music of about 1500 to sacred and secular polyphonic music of the later sixteenth
century In recent years Accentus has appeared at the Semana de Musica Antigua
in Seville, the Barcelona Concerts d'Estiu at Montserrat and at similar festivals
in London and throughout Germany and Austria, as well as in Poland and Israel.
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