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L’Arpeggiata
Founded in 2000, this vocal-instrumental ensemble
is comprised predominantly of French musicians.
However, its founder and director Christina Pluhar
describes the group as ‘an international cocktail of
artists with distinctive personalities’. The group’s
programmatic interests focus on French, Spanish,
Italian and Neapolitan music of the 17 th century,
making bold use of improvisation, drawing inspiration
from the complex texture created by a multitude
of plucked instruments. L’Arpeggiata has
taken part in renowned festivals and performed in
concert halls all over the world, to mention a few:
Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Festival des Flandres,
Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay, Pfingstfestspiele
Melk, Festival d’Ambronay, Festival Baroque
de Pontoise, Early Music Festival Saint Petersburg,
Festival de Sully et du Loiret, Festival de Musique du
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Haut-Jura, Festival de la Vézère, Festival de Música
Antigua de Darocca, Festival de Torroella de Montgri,
Sanssouci Festival Potsdam, Festival Atlantique
Azores, Arques la Bataille, Théâtre de Bordeaux,
Vredenburg Music Center Utrecht, Concertgebouw
Brugge, Concertgebouw Amsterdam. All recordings
made thus far by the ensemble have received
prestigious awards (Diapason d’Or, Amadeus, Prix
Excellentia, Cannes Classical Award). Since 2009,
the ensemble has been associated permanently with
the EMI/Virgin Classics label. The album Teatro
d’Amore with works by C. Monteverdi, released a
year earlier, on which solo vocal parts were performed
by Philippe Jaroussky and Nuria Rial, was
honored with the Echo Klassik Preis (Germany,
2009), as well as the Edison Classic Prize (Holland,
2010). In March of last year, their most recent
record was released – Via Crucis, with the participation
of Corsican vocal group Barbara Furtuna.
Photo: Marco Borggreve