as you like it. opia Consort

• Henry VIII (1491 - 1547), Giorgio Mainerio (1535 - 1582): Pavane Helas madame |Schiarazula Marazula:
• 1 VIII, Mainerio: Pavane Helas madame |Schiarazula Marazula 03:03
• Pierre Attaingnant (1494 - 1552): Basse Dance & Tourdion:
• 2 Attaingnant: Basse Dance & Tourdion 03:01
• Luca Marenzio (1553 - 1599): Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena – Ma per me, lasso:
• 3 Marenzio: Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena – Ma per me, lasso 05:47
• Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575 - 1647): Gagliarda Terza à 4 detta la Talianella (1):
• 4 Trabaci: Gagliarda Terza à 4 detta la Talianella (1) 01:34
• Giovanni Picchi (1571 - 1643): Pass'e mezzo:
• 5 Picchi: Pass'e mezzo 04:59
• Franka Fcha: Si la noche:
• 6 Fcha: Si la noche 03:06
• Ludwig Senfl (ca. 1490 - 1543): Quodlibet. Waldeinsamkeit – O Elslein, liebes Elslein mein – Es taget vor dem Walde:
• 7 Senfl: Quodlibet. Waldeinsamkeit – O Elslein, liebes Elslein mein – Es taget vor dem Walde 05:51
• Franka Fcha: Besame y abracame:
• 8 Fcha: Besame y abracame 03:02
• Johann Schop (1590 - 1667): Paduana a 3 |Quodlibet. Remember my Flow in Hell |Galliard:
• 9 Schop: Paduana a 3 |Quodlibet. Remember my Flow in Hell |Galliard 11:45
• Franka Fcha: Mojica:
• 10 Fcha: Mojica 03:29
• Giovanni Maria Trabaci: Gagliarda Terza à 4 detta la Talianella (2):
• 11 Trabaci: Gagliarda Terza à 4 detta la Talianella (2) 01:22
• Biagio Marini (1594 - 1663): Passacaglio:
• 12 Marini: Passacaglio 04:29
• Pierre Attaignant (1494 - 1552), opia: Quodlibet. O schöne Welt |Tourdion |O du lieber Augustin |Ungarescha:
• 13 Attaignant, opia: Quodlibet. O schöne Welt |Tourdion |O du lieber Augustin |Ungarescha 05:05
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Sì Dolce:
• 14 Monteverdi: Sì Dolce 05:19
• Total Runtime 01:01:52

Info for as you like it.

As you like - jocular, sensual, dramatic. opia delves into the musical depths of this game - merging literature from the Renaissance to the early Baroque.

In this atmospheric programme, the musicians interpret sensual songs and lively dances with voice, recorders, viola da gamba, harpsichord and percussion instruments. In different instrumentations, they vary the sound colours from intimate to magnificent chamber music and their own quodlibets.

Inspired by Shakespeare's comedy of mistaken identities, we too move musically between worlds: Discovering savoir vivre at the French court, rushing to the cosy Viennese inn, fleeing from the plague into the warm embrace of English melancholy, crossing rushing rivers in the middle of the German forest solitude, feeling the mild west wind of Italy on our skin, and dreaming of great love at night on the Spanish coast.

opia, consisting of 6 musicians, combines tonal diversity, intensity of expression, rhythmic sophistication and experimental joy of playing. Founded in spring 2019, opia has already performed in Austria, Germany, Italy and Israel, including at the Grafenegg Festival and the Innsbruck Early Music Festival. The ensemble focuses on lively interpretation, recomposition and improvisation of music from the late Middle Ages, Renaissance and early Baroque.

opia Consort

opia
unites 6 musicians in search of tonal diversity, rhythmical finesse and experimental joy - Eva Leonie Fegers, soprano, recorders and renaissance transverse-flute, Alina Loewenich, recorders, Fabio Kapeller, percussion, Friederike Vollert, recorders, Julia Willeitner, viols and Alexander Gergelyfi, historical keyboard instruments.

After several years of collaboration in various constellations, the musicians Fegers, Loewenich and Kapeller founded the ensemble in spring 2019.

By that time, they had already reached the final of the Tel Aviv Recorder Competition (ISR). In July they won the 2nd Prize at the Concorso di Musica Antica "Maurizio Pratola ", L'Aquila (ITA).

So far they have given concerts in Austria, Germany, Italy and Israel. In the summer of 2019 they performed at the renowned Festival Grafenegg (AUT) and took part in productions by the radio stations Ö1 and the BR-Klassik.

The focus of the ensemble is on the lively interpretation, recomposition and improvisation of music from the Late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Early Baroque.

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