Ensemble Unicorn

Outfit Unicorn is a favorite chamber group specialized in the performance of Medieval and early Renaissance music about period devices. The ensemble includes five players, though frequently one or many guest performers, specifically performers, will augment their quantity to accommodate needs of particular repertory. Repertory is usually, of course, among the key areas of the group, another may be the instrumentation found in overall performance. Early or Medieval variations of recorders, harp, and fiddle are utilized, along with hurdy-gurdy, keyed fiddle, ud, rebec, different historic flutes, and a range of percussion musical instruments. The unusual sizes and shapes of the musical instruments as well as the noises they produce established Outfit Unicorn’s style after that of most various other early music ensembles. A lot of its repertory is certainly from private resources and little-known composers like Johannes Ghiselin, Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro, and Antonio Alamanni. But such luminaries as Josquin Desprez, Machaut, and Dufay also show up on applications and recordings. The group provides toured across European countries, Asia, the center East, and Canada and made an appearance on many recordings, many of them on the Naxos label. Outfit Unicorn was founded in 1991 in Austria by Michael Posch, the ensemble’s movie director and recorder participant. The other people of the group are Marco Ambrosini (fiddle, keyed fiddle), Riccardo Delfino (harp), Thomas Wimmer (fiddle, lute, rebec), and Wolfgang Reithofer (percussion). Every one of the people perform as soloists and with various other early music ensembles, such as for example Accentus, Oni Wytars, and Concentus Musicus. Some, like Michael Posch, may also be instructors, and one, Marco Ambrosini, is certainly a composer. The group frequently performs in Vienna, Linz, and other areas of Austria and in Germany. After development the ensemble quickly enticed interest in the Viennese and Germanic spheres. It produced its first documenting in 1994, the Naxos Compact disc Chominciamento di gioia, a assortment of private instrumental bits of dance music. Through the entire remainder from the 1990s and in to the brand-new hundred years, the group gradually built its popularity, drawing rave testimonials from across European countries and the center East, from Ireland, Belgium, and Poland to Turkey, Jordan, and Israel. The 2003 Naxos Compact disc, Music of His Period — Raphael was an excellent success as well as the acclaimed 2004 concert in Bar-le-Duc, France, was documented for tv broadcast. By 2010 Outfit Unicorn had marketed a lot more than 250,000 CDs and transported a sizable plan of concerts with halts in Russia, Canada, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and across a lot of European countries, especially on the main early music celebrations.