Mozart: String Quintets 1-6 - Spunicunifait
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Stereo (2 hours 58 minutes)
Classical - Chamber
Mozart: String Quintets Nos. 1-6 on period instruments
Spunicunifait:
Lorenza Borrani, Maia Cabeza (violin)
Max Mandel, Simone von Rahden (viola)
Luise Buchberger (cello)
Spunicunifait is the curious name adopted by a group of five musicians, all of whom have a great deal of experience in chamber music as well as in prestigious orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; they have founded this ensemble to be able to devote themselves to the in-depth study and period instrument performance of Mozart's six string quintets.
Their choice of a name is also a trifle facetious, copying the example set by Mozart in a letter to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart in which he wrote the three mysterious words "Spuni Cuni fait"; these could mean spun or woven / coney or rabbit / and "made," the past participle of the French verb faire: to make: something woven from rabbit skin, like the shawl his beloved cousin Bäsle wore in a self-portrait.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 1 in B flat major, K. 174
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 2 in C minor, K. 406/516b
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K. 515
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K. 593
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 6 in E flat major, K. 614
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