Artist description Capella Monacensis is a group of soloists from Munich who devote themselves to play and interpret early music. Capella Monacensis plays the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in live performances of music that go from approximately the year 1200 to 1600. This ensemble - made up of 7 professional musicians - consists of a vocal and an instrumental group. Its repertoire embraces music ranging from the songs of troubadours to the madrigal, and from the improvised art of the jongleurs to the instrumental music of the sixteenth century. The instrumental group comprehends wind, string, fretted and percussion instruments. The Capella Monacensis, with its instruments from different periods, is able to perform the various pieces as they were originally played.Over the years the Capella Monacensis has performed in many cities all over Europe. Both public and critics in France, Italy, Austria, England, Spain have lauded the Capella Monacensis as one of the best groups of its kind.

Music Style Medieval and Renaissance

Artist History The group has been together now for more than ten years.

Group Members Susanne Ritter, Soprano;Christoph von Sicherer, Bariton;Monika Douglas- von Hellberg, recorders and block flutes;Bernd Kaiser, Dulzian (curtal), bombarde, crumhorns (crooked horns);Hans Wilhelm, viola da gamba and fiddle, cornetto;Gottfried Hartl, Renaissance lute;Valentin Schmitt, viola da gamba, organ, percussion, conductor and scientific research.

Instruments percussion, recorders, flutes, cornetto, dulcian, lute, viola da gamba

Albums 1. Love songs and dances of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. 2. Calendarium Musicum - Or the 5 seasons

Location Pfaffing, Germany - Germany

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