Ensemble Belcanto & Dietburg Spohr
Release Date: 19 December 2008
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028946171929
Genres: Classical
Description
"Come un'ombra di luna" marks a first ECM appearance for one of the most highly regarded vocal groups in European new music.The Ensemble Belcanto was formed in 1986 by mezzosoprano Dietburg Spohr, then a member of Clytus Gottwald's legendary "schola cantorum" in Stuttgart. Spohr, who had experience in improvisation as well as choral music, "classical" singing and new music performance was aware that contemporary composition lacked a first-rank group made up of female voices. Frankfurter Rundschau critic Gerhard R. Koch: "There already existed several specialist vocal ensembles for new music, it is true, but none of them were composed exclusively of women singers specializing primarily in contemporary music."
Recorded 2000
Personnel: Dietburg Spohr (mezzosoprano, director), Birgitta Zehetner (mezzosoprano), Andrea Baader, Rita Huber (soprano), Dzuna Kalnina, Rica Rauch (alto)
Tracklisting
Delian Quartett
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Ensemble Belcanto & Dietburg Spohr
