The concert focuses on the English vocal tradition, from the Renaissance to the present day, combining courtly songs by Dowland, Morley, Gibbons, and Purcell alongside Irish folk songs and melodies by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The varied pieces are woven together in intimate, sensitive arrangements, creating a rich texture of voices and period instruments, recorders, historical guitars, Baroque cello, and percussion.
Ensemble Metzo is an Israeli musical group. The ensemble was founded in 2015 by recorder artist Dorit Florentin. All of the ensemble’s members specialized in performing early music on historical instruments after advanced studies at leading centers for historical performance abroad.
Ensemble Alma, Israeli Women’s Voice, is a unique and original vocal group offering a fresh, distinct sound in the Israeli music scene, creating a moving encounter between the worlds of classical, popular, and ethnic music.
Singers of Ensemble Alma, Israeli Women’s Voice: Nava Sahar, Tal Bernstein Rav Or, Ella Medina, Liron Lindman, Carmel Ronen
Soprano: Yaela Avital
Recorders: Dorit Florentin
Baroque cello: Orit Messer-Yaakobi
Baroque guitar and classical guitar: Eyal Leber
Percussion: Gonen Wiesel
Musical direction: Dorit Florentin and Ella Medina