Historic harps, recorders, serpent, portative, fiddle and violin, not an everyday instrumentation - and a very lively one at that. Music from the old days is not mimed here, but lived: atmosphere, density - without fuss.
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The group IL LUSORIUS was founded in the fall of 2014, inspired by the idea to use historical music boxes as a source for a new kind of musical journey.
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Ostinato basses, bass motifs that are frequently repeated, are standards of the 17th century musical repertoire. They demand an inspired and creative playing style from the performers, enabling them to demonstrate their virtuosity and compete imaginatively.
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The participation of the keyed fiddle (viola d'amore a clavis, nyckelharpa) and hurdy-gurdy (viola da rota, hurdy-gurdy, vielle a roue) give the programme of the ensemble chant des grillons rousing effects.
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The Ensemble Semperviva combines the historically informed interpretation of the Italian Renaissance with the reading of texts from the period.  The thoughts, ideas and living conditions of this exciting and fascinating time are thus added to the sounds.
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‘The exotic is sometimes not only geographically distant, but also temporally, and so the combination of old European and new non-European music suddenly seems quite natural.’
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