AboutL’Archibudelli, a chamber ensemble of variable size, has been performing and recording to great acclaim on period instruments throughout the 1990s. Although the group concentrates on music from the eighteenth century, their range extends far into the nineteenth, with equally notable results. About the group -- composed of Vera Beths, Jurgen Kussmaul, Anner Bylsma and other musicians who join as needed -- Stereo Review has written, "The members of L'Archibudelli … are among the strongest early-instrument string performers around and together they produce a vigorous and highly articulated sound that evokes the period in a distinctive way while making the music jump to life." The ensemble records on Sony Classical’s VIVARTE label. Among its most recent recordings are Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet (SK 63361); two Schubert Trios (SK 62695), which won the Nouvelle Académie du Disque in 1997; Haydn: The Last Three String Quartets (SK 62731); and Haydn: Eight Notturni for the King of Naples (with Mozzafiato, SK 62878). Scheduled for release in Spring 2000 is a disc of the Mendelssohn String Quintets (SK 60766). L’Archibudelli, a difficult-to-translate word meaning approximately “bows and guts,” performs and records well-known repertoire -- Beethoven and Mozart trios -- as well as less familiar works by favorite composers -- Divertimenti by Haydn and Mozart, for example -- and chamber works of less familiar composers -- Friedrich Dotzauer and Georges Orlow, to name two nineteenth-century artists. The group is consistently noted for its sympathetic musicianship and singled out for its clarity of line, even in performances of dense romantic compositions like Brahms’ sextets (SK 68252) and Bruckner’s quintet (SK 66251). When possible, they are loaned instruments from the famous Stradivarius collection at the Smithsonian Institution. A fixture in the concert halls of Europe, L’Archibudelli has also toured Japan. They have made some twenty-five highly-acclaimed recordings on the Sony VIVARTE label, garnering no fewer than five Diapasons d’Ors from the French periodical Diapason , a “10” from Germany’s Stereoplay magazine (for their collection of works by Spohr, performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, SK 53370), and an unqualified series of raves from America’s influential Strings magazine. |
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