Arpeggiata - Christina Pluhar
Arpeggiata is a baroque music ensemble directed by the harpist and lute player Christina Pluhar. Its members are today’s finest instrumentalists and in addition they work with the most exceptional singers from the Baroque and the traditional music worlds.
Arpeggiata's work and philosophy is based on improvisations on the music of the 17th century, a rich sound texture by blending all colours of various plucked instruments from the baroque period, a vocal interpretation influenced by traditional Italian music, as well as the creation and staging of attractive shows.
Since its foundation in the year 2000 Arpeggiata has had an incredible response from the audience as well as from the critics: They have sold over 200,000 copies of their CDs and have received outstanding reviews for their albums and concerts.
Their album
La Villanella
dedicated to the music of Girolamo Kapsberger has been considered ‘Event of the month’ by Repertoire des disques in September 2001 and has been awarded with the Premio Internationale del disco per la musica italiana. Their second CD
Homo fugit velut umbra
devoted to Stefano Landi was ’10 de Repertoire’, ‘Diapason Découverte’, ‘CD of the Week’ by BBC, ‘CD of the Month’ by Amadeus (Italy) and Prix Exellentia by Pizzicato (Luxemburg).
La Tarantella
, which proposes an encounter between baroque and traditional musicians, has been ’10 de Repertoire’, ‘CD of the Week’ by France Musique and ‘CD of the Month’ by Toccata (Germany).
All’Improvviso
their third disc, was rewarded with « Timbre de platine » of Opéra international, CD of the month by BBC Magazine, and their last CD, the
Rapressentazione di Anima et di Corpo
by Emilio de’ Cavalieri has won the prize of the academy « Charles Cros ».
Their album
Los Impossibles
stars the
King’s Singers
as well as the Flamenco guitarist Pepe Habichuela.
Their new album Teatro d'Amore with music of Claudio Monteverdi stars the singers Philippe Jaroussky, Nuria Rial, Cyril Auvity, Jan van Elsacker amongst others. It is their first album for virgin classics/EMI. (Itunes download)
Furthermore, L’Arpeggiata gives concerts in all big festivals such as Lufthansa Festival London, Oude Muziek Utrecht, Festival de Pontoise, Printemps des Arts de Nantes, Theatre de Poissy, Theatre de Bordeaux, Rencontres de Vezelay, Festival Musique Sacree de Fribourg, Pfingstfestspiele Melk, Emociana Antigua Madrid, Flagey à Bruxelles, Festival de St Michel-en-Thierache, Festival de Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Brugge Musica Antica, Hong Kong Arts Festival, among many others.
