Almara

Almara is an international early music ensemble, founded by Elisabeth Pawelke during her studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. The musical focus of the ensemble is to the secular repertoire of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with which the musicians sat down intensively and they awaken with great enthusiasm and virtuosity to life.

The musicians studied at the music academies in Milan, Basel, The Hague and New York and worked with renowned ensembles and orchestras early music together such. B. Cantus Firmus, La Scintilla, EST !, Phoenix Ensemble, Estampie and the Venice Baroque Orchestra. 2009, the first CD entitled "Outros Amores" was published, the topic deals with the various aspects of love and devotion in the Middle Ages, which are reflected in a poetic way in the medieval compositions.

Line-up:

Elisabeth Pawelke - Vocals, harp, hurdy-gurdy

Emanuele Forni - Different sounds

Sabine Kreutzberger - Fidel, viol

Sascha gotowtschikow - Percussion

Takayoshi sasano - harp

Birgit Muggenthaler-Schmack - Bagpipes, flutes

On the debut album of Almara - "Outros Amores" unite medieval chansons of the French poet-composer Guillaume de Machaut, galizisch- Portuguese Cantigas and traditional Sephardic Romances with Spanish music and poetry of the Renaissance, such as with a Villancico of Luis de Narváez. About all these pieces, however, hovers the theme of love and devotion in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which reveals itself in its various aspects, such as hope, religious devotion, fulfillment or disappointment and is reflected also in the title "outros amores".

Almara - Outros Amores

Tracklist:

1. Vos flores

2. Rosa das rosas

3. Je vivroie liement

4. Quantas sabedes amar

5. Qué puede ser

6. Ne m'oublie mie

7. Vareda

8. Por qué llorax blanca niña

9. Je ne cuit pas

10. El rey de francia

11. La bella mal maridada

12. Der Smid von Oberlande