Artemandoline

: PRESS QUOTES

"…Nuria Rial und Artemandoline haben einen schönen Strauss an Fundstücke zusammengebunden. …die Formation macht ihrem Namen dabei alle Ehre: Perfekt ergänzen die Streicher und Nuria Rial das Zupfinstrument in seiner Artikulation." - Concerti

"CD « L’arte del mandolino barroco »: ...les excellents virtuoses d’Artemandoline ont choisi d’adapter à l’ongle ou au plectre chaque partie instrumentale d’un répertoire judicieusement sélectionné…moments précieux…texture fluide,…Leur audace est pleinement récompensée…Une réussite."  - Roger-Claude Travers, Diapason (4 Diapasons)

"... a small amount of mandolin music can go a long way, but in the hands of such fine musicians, a two-hour concert passes quickly for audiences that can appreciate the delicacy of tone provided by such graceful instruments." - Washington Post

: BIOGRAPHY

With their ensemble Artemandoline, formed in 2001, Juan Carlos Muñoz and Mari Fe Pavón chose to go back to the original documents in order to establish the true pedigree of this incomparable family of instruments. The musicians have sought to do fuller justice to the works of Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Weiss and their contemporaries.

The success of this approach based on a return to the sources, which constitutes the most important development in the history of the interpretation of ‘serious’ music in the course of the 20th century, has been made possible by the cooperation of many protagonists – musicians, but also concert organisers, recording producers, publishers, musicologists and instrument makers.

The latest recording project by Artemandoline, together with soprano Nuria Rial, Sospiri d’amanti was released by the German label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

Very quickly awarded by the critics and enthusiastically acclaimed by the public, Artemandoline’s performances always create new impulsions in the development of both perception and interpretation of works of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The musicians participate in the current expansion of interest in it all over the world through their conservatory teaching and masterclasses, their concerts and their publications.

They play on period instruments: Baroque mandolins, Renaissance and Baroque guitar, Baroque mandola and mandolone, Renaissance lute, treble lutes, mandolins from Brescia and Cremona.

They are regularly invited to appear at early music festivals and venues including Festival de Musique Ancienne le St. Guilhem-le-Désert, Festival des Musiques Anciennes de l’abbaye de Sylvanès, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Stockholm Early Music Festival, Bach Chamber Days in Riga, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Festival de Musique Ancienne du Marais, Gaudete Early Festival, Early Music Day in Alden-Biesen, Musique en Catalogne romane, Castello Reale di Sarre, Festival Musique d’Ensemble in Pommiers, Luxembourg Baroque Days, the Luxembourg’s Philharmonie, Palacio Foz in Lisbon, Festival Midi-Minimes and Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, Festival Renaissance du château du Clos Lucé, Festival 1001 Notes.