Sonar Cantando (VRT Muziek Edition) Ensemble Oltremontano & Wim Becu

• Leandro Gallerano (1580 - 1632): Sono tubae tympano (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 1Gallerano: Sono tubae tympano (VRT Muziek Edition)02:05
• Giovanni Martino Cesare (1590 - 1667): La Fenice (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 2Cesare: La Fenice (VRT Muziek Edition)03:13
• Alessandro Grandi (1586 - 1630): Motetti a uno et due voci con sinfonie d'istromenti: Salve Regina (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 3Grandi: Motetti a uno et due voci con sinfonie d'istromenti: Salve Regina (VRT Muziek Edition)04:30
• Giovanni Legrenzi (1626 - 1690): La secca soarda (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 4Legrenzi: La secca soarda (VRT Muziek Edition)03:35
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Laudate Dominum (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 5Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum (VRT Muziek Edition)04:04
• Biagio Marini (1594 - 1663): La Foscarini (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 6Marini: La Foscarini (VRT Muziek Edition)05:14
• Dario Castello (1602 - 1631): Sonata duodecima a tre (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 7Castello: Sonata duodecima a tre (VRT Muziek Edition)07:38
• Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665): Favus Distillans (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 8Merula: Favus Distillans (VRT Muziek Edition)04:14
• Dario Castello: Sonata tredicesima (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 9Castello: Sonata tredicesima (VRT Muziek Edition)07:59
• Gioseffe Guami (1542 - 1611): Canzon decimasettima (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 10Guami: Canzon decimasettima (VRT Muziek Edition)03:24
• Nicolò Corradini (1585 - 1646): La Golferamma (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 11Corradini: La Golferamma (VRT Muziek Edition)03:36
• Giacomo Carissimi (1605 - 1674): O quam pulchra es (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 12Carissimi: O quam pulchra es (VRT Muziek Edition)09:09
• Biagio Marini: Passacaglia (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 13Marini: Passacaglia (VRT Muziek Edition)04:58
• Marco Antonio Ferro (1600 - 1662): Sonata undecima (VRT Muziek Edition):
• 14Ferro: Sonata undecima (VRT Muziek Edition)04:55
• Total Runtime01:08:34

Info for Sonar Cantando (VRT Muziek Edition)

Ensemble Oltremontano was founded some ten years ago by Wim Becu and at the request of Klara. Immediately they conquered a prominent place in the early music scene at home and abroad. Sonar cantando is their very first album. The title Sonar Cantando - or playing while singing - is a flag that perfectly covers the load. Together with German soprano Dorothee Mields, Oltremontano performs Italian seventeenth-century music imbued with a close connection between the vocal and the instrumental.

Oltremontano
Wim Becu, direction

Oltremontano
For more than 25 years now, Oltremontano has been an internationally renowned historical brass ensemble. The name Oltremontano is a reference to the vanguard Flemish composers who dominated the European music scene during the 15th and 16th centuries. In Italy, they were known as ‘Oltremontani’- the people across the mountains.

Sackbuts and cornetts are at the heart of the ensemble. This corresponds to the configuration of North Italian and North German renaissance music ensembles. The ensemble often invites vocalists, which has led to collaborations with, amongst others, Capilla Flamenca, Pluto ensemble, Psallentes and Capella Cracoviensis, or with top solo artists like Dorothee Mields, Charles Daniels and Harry van der Kamp.

Oltremontano has become an incubator for the development of historical trombones and the repertoire that was composed for these instruments. The ensemble has produced a unique recordings catalogue that has received critical acclaim.

Until 2022, they will be artist in residence at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA).

Wim Becu
studied trombone at the Conservatories of Antwerp and The Hague. Within his field – early music – he has committed to a great many varieties of historical trombone. Becu has collaborated with prominent old music ensembles like Huelgas Ensemble, Concerto Palatino, Hespérion XX, Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse and l’Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. In 1993, he founded his own ensemble Oltremontano, a haven for historical brass wind instruments. Until the end of 2022, they will be artist in residence at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Apart from performing, Wim Becu also teaches at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag and at the Bremen Art College (Hochschule für Künste), and at various academies in Antwerp and Brussels.

In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Christopher Monk Award by the Historic Brass Society “trough his virtuoso period instrument performances and recordings in a wide range of reptertoires”. He participated in more than 300 CD-recordings.

This album contains no booklet.