Renaissance Ensemble Serbia is the first early music

Early music

Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...

 ensemble in south-eastern Europe, having been founded in 1968.

The Renaissance Ensemble from Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 began its life in the autumn of 1968, when they played early music scores on historical instruments that Dragan Mladjenovic Shakespeare had brought from Prague and Vienna. The founders of the Ensemble, Miomir Ristic, Ljubomir Dimitrijevic, and Dragan Mladjenovic Shakespeare (supported by two ladies Dusica Obradovic and Iskra Uzelac) gave their first concert on January 14, 1970 in the Gallery of Frescoes in Belgrade.

In its forty year long history the Renaissance Ensemble gave more than 3,000 concerts all around Europe (6 in France, 7 in Spain, Portugal, Finland, 6 in Italy, Cyprus, Greece, 3 in Bulgaria, 4 in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Sweden), in the Middle East (Syria) and in North Africa

North Africa

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 (Algeria), and during the Adriatic summer tours (1982–88).
Many splendid commentaries of music critics witness the artistic success of the Renaissance Ensemble.

LP & Cassette Discography

• “Music of the Old Serbia”
• “Music of the Old Adriatic”
• “Renaissance en Barcelona”
• “Los primeros siete annos” (Edi Vox, Barcelona, 1993)
• “Gems of Medieval Music” (Musica Viva, Athens, 1993)

CD Discography

• “Marco Polo – The Journey” (Artelier Music, Cologne, 1992)
• “Journey to Jerusalem” (Al segno, Cologne, 1995), Anthology (Al segno, 1997)
• “Journey through Dalmatia” (Al segno, 1999)
• “Anthology” (Produkcija gramofonskih ploca RTB, 1983–88)
• “Roots of the Balkan” (Classic Produktion Osnabrück, 2002)