Quatuor Cambin-Paris playing the Allegretto
( Quatuor en la majeur, CG.562 II) of Charles Gounod
Julien Chauvin, Violin
Karine Crocquenoy, Violin
Pierre-Éric Nimylowycz, Viola
Atsushi Sakaï, Cello
Formed in 2007, the Quatuor Cambini-Paris, one of the rare string quartets to play on period instruments, has quickly established itself in today’s musical landscape thanks to the richness of its repertoire. The quartet is admired for both its performances of the acknowledged masterpieces of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn and its rediscovery of forgotten French composers such as Jadin, David and Gouvy.
The quartet has performed in the most renowned venues and festivals, including the Frick Collection in New York, the Philips Collection in Washington, DC, the Salle Bourgie in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice, the Marble Palace in St Petersburg, the Opéra Comique, Auditorium du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Versailles Palace (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles), the Théâtre de Caen, the Arsenal in Metz, the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Amuz Music Centre in Antwerp, De Bijloke in Ghent, the French Institutes in Vienna and Budapest, and the festivals of Deauville, Sablé-sur-Sarthe, L’Épau, Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Saintes and Newbury.
The recordings of the Quatuor Cambini-Paris have enjoyed critical acclaim, with such awards as 4 stars in Classica, ffff Télérama, Diapason ‘Découverte’, ‘Disc of the Month’ in Classic Voice and ‘Coup de Cœur’ in the radio programme Carrefour de Lodéon and Concertclassic as well.
They include Mozart’s six ‘Haydn’ Quartets (Ambroisie-Naïve), works by Théodore Gouvy (CD-book Palazzetto Bru Zane), Félicien David (Ambroisie-Naïve), Hyacinthe Jadin (Timpani), a contribution to the set ‘200 Years of Music at Versailles’ (MBF) and Chopin Concertos for piano & string quintet (Aparté).
Recently, the Quatuor has also released the Gounod’s quartets first integral, which has been selected by France Musique radio and Le Monde..
At the start of the 2016/17 season, the Quatuor Cambini-Paris embarked on the ambitious project of performing all 68 string quartets of Joseph Haydn. With three concerts per season, the project is scheduled over a period of eight years. These complete cycle of the 68 Haydn quartets, presented by Clément Lebrun, is given an element of staging that allows audiences to join the musicians in a participatory and sensory experience..
The Quatuor Cambini-Paris is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Région Île-de-France, the Caisse des Dépôts, the endowment fund Françoise Kahn-Hamm, the association Adopt a Musician and the Club Olympe sponsors. It is associate artist at the Singer-Polignac Foundation in Paris. The Palazzetto Bru Zane (Centre de Musique Romantique Française) in Venice enjoys a special rapport with them.
2023
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