Spunicunifait Performs Mozart’s Six String Quintets on Period Instruments – CD Release

Description

Title: Mozart: 6 String Quintets on Historical Instruments
Artist: Spunicunifait
Label: Alpha
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3701624511374
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-11-28
Number of Discs: 3
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 Basle wore in a self-portrait.
Tracks:
1.1 String Quintet No. 1 in B Flat Major, K.174~I. Allegro moderato
2.1 String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K.515~I. Allegro
3.1 String Quintet No. 2 in C Minor, K.406~I. Allegro

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