| The Mozartean Players, founded in 1979, is one of the oldest
continuously active early-music organizations in America. In its initial
decade as a protean ensemble shifting from orchestral to varied chamber
formats, the group reinterpreted the Classical masterworks in period style
in a series of pathbreaking concerts in major halls in New York City. At
Alice Tully Hall and at The Metropolitan Museum, where the group appeared in
multi-concert seasons from 1983 through 1987, many 18th-century masterworks received their period "premieres," including six Mozart fortepiano concertos with Steven Lubin as soloist. These were among the first of the American
early-music movement's historically informed renditions of such large-scale
repertoire, and they received international exposure through a series of widely admired recordings for Arabesque.
Since 1987, the group has focused
on the trio repertoire, with Stanley Ritchie, violinist, Myron Lutzke,
cellist, and Mr. Lubin, fortepianist, comprising the core ensemble. The
trio has toured in 30 of the United States and in Europe, and has released a new series of chamber recordings for Harmonia Mundi USA, including the
complete trios and piano quartets of Mozart, and the complete Schubert
trios.
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