"Z" Ensembles
Zampogna
- Director : Wouter Smekens
- Year ensemble formed : 1972
- Description : Performs medieval music.
- Contact information :
- Postal address:
- AAL RECORDS
Tweelingenstraat 49
B-2018 Antwerpen
BELGIUM
- Telephone: +3232884662
- E-mail: wouter_smekens@yahoo.com
- Home city/country : Belgium
- Discography : AAL RECORDS
- Alphonso El Sabio - Cantigas on original instruments 1984
- Al Andalus 1988 - jewish, christian and moorish music of Al Andalus on original
instruments
Zarbanda
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : 1985 -- by Alvaro Marías
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Spain
- Members :
- Alvaro Marías (recorder)
- Angel Luis Quintana (violoncello)
- Miguel del Barco Diaz (harpsichord, organ)
- Discography :
- Arcangelo Corelli: "14 Sonatas para flauta dulce y continuo" - with Rosa
Rodriguez and Miguel Jiménez - Warner
WEA 5046791142 (2 CDs.)
- Director : Alfredo Bernardini (oboe)
- Year ensemble formed : 1989 -- by Paolo Grazzi, Alfredo Bernardini, and Alberto
Grazzi
- Description : The ensemble's goal is to explore baroque and classical music where
wind instruments are highlighted.
- WWW :
http://www.ensemblezefiro.it
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- Ensemble Zefiro
Via Revere 18
46100 Mantova
ITALY
- Telephone/FAX : +39 0376268210
- E-mail :
- Home city/country : Mantua, Italy
- Members: (cumulative)
- Paolo Grazzi (oboe)
- Alfredo Bernardini (oboe)
- Alberto Grazzi (bassoon)
- Roberto Sensi (contrabassoon)
- Dileno Baldin (horn)
- Gabriele Rocchetti (horn)
- Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord, organ)
- Rolf Lislevand (theorbe)
- Discography:
- Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745): "Sonates pour deux hautbois et basson avec basse
continue obligée" - Astrée/Auvidis E8511 (Recorded and released in 1993.)
- Zelenka: "Sonates I, III, IV pour deux hautbos et basson avec basse continue
obligée" - Astrée/Auvidis E8563 (Recorded and released in 1995.)
- WA Mozart: Gran Partita kv361/370a Divertimento in E flat k166 - Astrée/Auvidis
E8605
- WA Mozart: Divertimenti and serenades (3 CDs) - Astrée/Auvidis
- Antonio Vivaldi: "Concerti per vari strumenti" (RV 537, 461, 484, 545, 535,
538, 557) - Naïve/Auvidis E8679 (Recorded in 1998. Released in 2000.)
- Georg Druschetzky (1745-1819): Chamber works - with members of the Quatuor
'Joseph Joachim' - Ambroisie AMB 9925 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2002.)
- Luigi Gatti (1740-1817): "Quartetto, Sestetto, Settimino" - with members of the Quatuor
'Joseph Joachim' - Ambroisie AMB 9934 (Recorded in 2002. Released in 2003.)
- HANDEL: Water Musick & TELEMANN: "Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb &
Fluth" - directed by Alfredo Bernardini - Ambroisie AMB 9946 (Recorded
and released in 2003.)
- WA Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte.
Ambroisie AMB 9962 (Recorded in 2003. Released in 2004.)
- Vivaldi: "Concerti per vari strumenti" (RV 559, 497, 566, 534, 548,
454, 560) - Orchestra Barocca Zefiro - Naive/Opus 111 OP30409 (Recorded in 2004. Released in 2005.)
- Lv Beethoven: Harmoniemusik - Sony Classical 88697029012 (Recorded
in 2005. Released in 2007.)
- WA Mozart: Divertimenti for strings and wind instruments (KV 131,
290, 205, 251) - Sony Classical 88697025872 (Recorded in 2006. Released in 2007.)
Zefiro Torna
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1996
- Description : The name of the ensemble is taken from a madrigal of
Monteverdi and means: 'the return of Zephyrus'.
- WWW :
http://www.zefirotorna.be/
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- Diestsesteenweg 17
3210 Linden
BELGIUM
- Tele/FAX : + 32 (0)16 26 00 43
- Mobile : + 32 (0)496 70 60 14
- E-mail : info@zefirotorna.be
- Home city/country : Belgium
- Members :
- Voice: Els van Laethem, Cécile Kempenaers
- Aline Hopchet (recorders, shawm)
- Jurgen de Bruyn (lute, chitarone, guitare)
- Liam Fennelly (viola da gamba, fiddle)
- Discography :
- "Mermaphilia": songs and dances by various composers. Eufoda Records
EUF1343 (Recorded and released in 2002.)
Zephyrus
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1991
- Description : The ensemble focuses on chamber music from the
dawning of the Classical era.
- WWW :
http://www.earlymusicguild.org/emg/zephyrus.html
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- 1029 NE 69th street
Seattle, WA 98115
- Telephone : (206) 729-1903
- E-mail : cwpn@mindspring.com
- Performance management : Artist managed
- Home city/country : Seattle, Washington
- Members :
- Current
- Courtney Westcott (flute)
- Ingrid Matthews (violin)
- Claire Garabedian (violoncello)
- Byron Schenkman (fortepiano)
- Past members and guest artists:
- Sonja Rasmussen (soprano)
- Shelley Taylor (violoncello)
- Emily Walhout (viola da gamba)
- Concerts
- July 12, 2002 7:30 p.m. Festival Music Society of Indianapolis
"London & the New World" Indianapolis Arts Center, 820 East 67th St.
Tickets: (317) 251-5190
- Discography :
- "Mozart in Mannheim" - Music of Toeschi, Stamitz, Danzi, Mozart, Le Brun,
Holzbauer - FOCUS 945 (Distributed by Albany)
Zespol Polski
(translation: Polish Ensemble)
- Director : Maria Pomianowska
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : specialize in folk music
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Warsaw, Poland
- Members :
- Maria Pomianowska (voice, suka)
- Maria Krupowies (voice)
- Marta Stanislawska (dulcimer)
- Pawel Iwaszkiewicz (flutes)
- Jedrzej Czarnecki (bass)
- Piotr Glinski (drums)
- Discography :
- Chopin (1810-1849) : "Roots - Spirit of the Lowlands" (Traditional Polish
Dances) - Opus 111 OPS 2006 (Recorded in 1995; Released in 1999)
Zutphens Barok Ensemble
- Leader : Arwen Bouw
- Year ensemble formed : 1981
- WWW :
http://home.wanadoo.nl/zutphenbarok
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- Koningspage 73
NL-7361 ZT Beekbergen
THE NETHERLANDS
- Telephone : +31 (0)573 258897
- E-mail :
zutphenbarok@wanadoo.nl
- Performance management :
- Home city/country : The Netherlands