Baroque Arabesque Fiori Musicali Austria

• Giulio Caccini (1551 - 1618): Nuove musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle:
• 1 Caccini: Nuove musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle: No. 35, Dalla porta d’oriente 03:49
• Traditional:
• 2 Traditional: Yo me enamore de un aire (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble) 04:44
• Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 1680): Antiodotum tarantulae (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble):
• 3 Kircher: Antiodotum tarantulae (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble) 02:03
• Modo hypodorico in D Minor (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble):
• 4 Kircher: Modo hypodorico in D Minor (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble) 02:50
• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Alcina, HWV 34:
• 5 Handel: Alcina, HWV 34: Tornami a vagheggiar (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble) 05:09
• Kevser Hanım (1887 - 1963): Nihâvend longa:
• 6 Hanım: Nihâvend longa 04:16
• Barbara Strozzi (1619 - 1677): Amor dormiglione (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble):
• 7 Strozzi: Amor dormiglione (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble) 04:49
• Francisco Tárrega (1852 - 1909): Capricho árabe (Arr. M. Brecelj for Harpsichord):
• 8 Tárrega: Capricho árabe (Arr. M. Brecelj for Harpsichord) 04:38
• Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663 - 1745): Sonata, Op. 4 No. 12:
• 9 Vitali: Sonata, Op. 4 No. 12: La Follia 09:18
• Traditional: Üsküdara gideriken (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble):
• 10 Traditional: Üsküdara gideriken (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble) 04:03
• Scalerica de oro (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble):
• 11 Traditional: Scalerica de oro (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble) 02:51
• François Couperin (1668 - 1733): Les barricades mystérieuses:
• 12 Couperin: Les barricades mystérieuses 03:17
• Traditional: Yo era niña (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble):
• 13 Traditional: Yo era niña (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble) 02:49
• Dance from the Black Sea:
• 14 Traditional: Dance from the Black Sea 03:31
• Adio querida (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble):
• 15 Traditional: Adio querida (Arr. M. Brecelj for Renaissance Ensemble) 04:09
• Total Runtime 01:02:16

Info for Baroque Arabesque

When European baroque meets oriental music and turns to Sephardic songs, this is the unmistakable sound of "Baroque Arabesque", the new crossover project by Fiori Musicali Austria. How would Handel, for example, have composed in the Orient, with the special sound of the instruments, the rhythm and the tonal language in his ears? Or how would musicians from the Orient have interpreted the works of their early Baroque contemporaries Giulio Caccini and Athanasius Kircher? From this perspective, the ensemble finds completely new ways to play baroque music. The ensemble devotes itself to this task with a great deal of imagination and freshness. Works by G.H. Händel, Sephardic songs, Giulio Caccini, Athanasius Kircher, traditional Turkish and Arabic songs, among others, will be performed.

Özlem Bulut, voice, oud
Julia Kainz, baroque violin
Pia Pircher, viola da gamba
Pat Feldner, percussion
Marinka Brecelj, harpsichord, direction

Fiori Musicali Austria
The ensemble Fiori Musicali Austria was founded by harpsichordist Marinka Brecelj with the idea of playing early music from Italy. The programming has expanded over the years, and even though the focus has remained on Italy, crossover elements currently enrich the musical spectrum. The ensemble's repertoire is constantly opening up to elements of traditional Italian, Sephardic, Turkish, Syrian or South American music.

Marinka Brecelj
was born in Bolzano, where she received her diploma in piano as a concert subject. She then studied harpsichord, piano and ensemble conducting at the Vienna Conservatory and the "G. Verdi" Conservatory in Milan. At the same time she studied musicology at the University of Bologna where she graduated with distinction in 1994.

As a harpsichordist she has performed in several cities in Italy, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Slovenia, Colombia, Peru and Mexico. She has participated in several festivals and concert cycles as a soloist (Wiener Festwochen, Intenationales-Komponistinnen-Festival in Kassel, Jeunesse in Milan, Festival Alte Musik Rovinj).

In 2002 she founded the early music ensemble "fiori musicali austria" with which she performs extensively.

Her extensive repertoire includes works from the Baroque period as well as contemporary compositions; some of them have been dedicated to her.

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