Nuovo Aspetto ensemble was founded by Michael Dücker, Johanna Seitz and Elisabeth Seitz. The name says it all: with rediscoveries of baroque works for unusual instrumentation, the ensemble constantly offers new perspectives on repertoire that has seemingly long since been explored and provides real discoveries with its exquisite programs. Special attention is paid to repertoire with the instruments salterio, harp and lute.
The ensemble dedicated its first CD “Arie et Sinfonie ” to the music of the almost forgotten Haydn discoverer Johann Georg Reutter, who, among other things, provided the legendary Pantaleon with enchanting and intoxicating parts.
In 2014, the second CD “Dialoghi con l'Angelo” by oratorio composer Francesco Ratis was released with music from his collection “Canzonette spirituale” from 1657. The musical dialogues it contains between the angel, a musician, the soul and the devil as well as popular songs and contrafacts are orchestrated in the most colourful way and wonderfully interpreted by a top-class five-voice vocal ensemble.
With the countertenor Valer Sabadus, Nuovo Aspetto released a CD of arias by Antonio Caldara in 2015, which attracted international attention. In his arias, whether magnificent, virtuoso, tender or plaintive, Caldara repeatedly uses attractive instrumental combinations such as obbligato lute, salterio, viola da gamba, violin or chalumeau.
Another CD with music by Joseph Haydn in chamber music versions for harp, lute and strings from the 18th century was produced together with Bayerischer Rundfunk. Finally, in 2020, the highly acclaimed CD “Il Gondoliere Veneziano” with Holger Falk was released as a limited edition on the Prospero label in co-production with WDR.
The ensemble has been met with “jubilation like in a jazz cellar” and “bright enthusiasm” at its guest appearances at renowned festivals and legendary concert halls such as the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Bozar Brussels, the Prinzregententheater Munich, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, the Handel Festival Karlsruhe, the Bremen Music Festival, the Mosel Festival and the Cologne Philharmonic, the Brühl Palace Concerts, the Romanesque Summer Cologne and the Kanazawa Festival in Japan. The Goethe-Institut invited the ensemble on a concert tour to Southeast Asia in 2020.
In addition, many concerts have been recorded by radio and television, including BR, WDR, Radio Bremen, NDR, HR and ORF.