Ensemble Renaissance

Renaissance Ensemble Serbia is the first early music ensemble in south-eastern Europe, having been founded in 1968.

The Renaissance Ensemble from Belgrade 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 (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)