Mozart: 6 String Quintets on Historical Instruments [Triple Album]

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 6 String Quintets on Historical Instruments on this Triple Album.

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.

Spunicunifait
Lorenza Borani, Violin
Maia Cabeza, Violin
Max Mandel, Viola
Simone von Rahden, Viola
Luise Buchberger, Violoncello