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April 2009: new & forthcoming releases

A new CD-release: Il Pianto di Maria - The Virgin's Lament

For full details see below ("new, recent & forthcoming releases ")

 

Excerpts from the CD can be found here.

 

IGA in concert with Il Pianto di Maria:

 

22 May: Cremona

25 May: Prague

28 May: Hamburg

1 June: Pamplona

2 June: Bilbao

4 June: Paris

2 September: Sion

4 September: Bremen

5 September: Dresden

6 September: Bucharest (Enescu Festival)

9 & 10 September: Wratislavia (Cantans Festival Wroclaw)

 

April 2009: forthcoming releases

Forthcoming: Vivaldi's operas Ottone in Villa and Arsilde, Regina di Ponto (IGA/Giovanni Antonini) on Naïve (OPUS111)

 

January 2009: MIDEM finalist

Bizarrie Armoniche, sister-ensemble of IGA, was a finalist for the MIDEM classical award 2009 in the category Baroque Music for their recording of Biber's Rosary Sonatas, but eventually lost to Philippe Jaroussky's Carestini-CD. More info here.

 

Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi Op.6

January 2009: new release

Il Giardino Armonico has released a new recording on the L'Oiseau Lyre label (Decca): G. F. Handel's Concerti Grossi op. 6 (3cds). Excerpts from the CD can be found here.

 

May 2008: new releases

Bizzarrie Armoniche has released a new cd: the Rosenkranz sonatas by Biber (for more info see below "new & upcoming releases").

Two works performed by Il Giardino Armonico at the recent Trigonale have been released on cd (again: for more info see below)

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March 2008: Il Giardino Armonico joins the revived L'Oiseau Lyre label

Il Giardino Armonico has joined the famous (and recently revived) early music label L'Oiseau Lyre (Decca):

 

"Multi award-winning period performance ensemble Il Giardino Armonico has been signed to the label. Renowned for its ground-breaking interpretation of music by Vivaldi, for L’Oiseau-Lyre the ensemble will continue its innovative approach with celebrations of music by Handel and Haydn, around the composers’ shared anniversary year (2009), including the cantata Pianto di Maria, with mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink." (http://www.loiseaulyre.com/news.php)

In the meantime, Il Giardino Armonico has also recorded the next volume of cello concerti in the Naive (ex-OPUS111) Vivaldi-edition.

 

December 2007: the new releases section has been updated (see below)

New related releases: two cd's by Enrico Onofri.

 

June 2007: the new releases section has been updated (see below)

New releases including IGA's recording of Vivaldi's cello concerti (vol. 1 in a series for Naïve (ex-Opus111).

 

September 2006: Il Giardino Armonico: the complete Warner/Teldec recordings:

The complete recordings (11CDs) IGA made for Teldec (now Warner) will be re-released in a box set through the German online CD shop JPC for only €41,99. More info here.

 

 

 

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new, recent & forthcoming releases 

(including related releases: releases involving (former) members of Il Giardino Armonico)

 

 

 

New release: Il Pianto di Maria - The Virgin's Lament

Label: L'Oiseau Lyre

Release date: May 2009

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Bernarda Fink

Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini

 

Music by Ferrandini, Vivaldi, Monteverdi & Conti

 

 

 

- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Sonata "Al Santo Sepolcro" RV130

- Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710 ca-1791) - "Il Pianto di Maria" [formerly attributed to G.F.Handel (HWV 234)]

- Biagio Marini (1587-1665) - Passacalio

- Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) - Pianto della Madonna sopra il Lamento d'Arianna

- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Concerto "Madrigalesco" in re minore RV129

- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Sinfonia "Al Santo Sepolcro" in si minore RV169

- Francesco Conti (1681-1732) - "Sento già mancar la vita", aria da "Il Martirio di S. Lorenzo"

- Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) - Sonata in do minore

 

Excerpts from the CD can be found here.

 

G. F. Handel, Concerti Grossi Op. 6

Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi Op.6Label: L'Oiseau Lyre

Release date: January 2009

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Il Giardino Armonico

Giovanni Antonini

 

 

 

 

Related release (non-IGA): H. I. F. von Biber, Rosenkranz Sonaten

Label: ARTS (previously released (limited release) by Amadeus magazine)

Release date: May 2008

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Riccardo Minasi, violin

Bizzarrie Armoniche

Elena Russo

 

more info on http://www.artsmusic.de/templates/tyContent.php?topic=homepage

 

 

Elemente (Trigonale 2007)

CoverabbildungLabel: Raumklang

Release date: May 2008

 

This is a 2cd-set containing highlights from last year's Trigonale festival. Included are a few works played by Il Giardino Armonico.

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Il Giardino Armonico

 

more info on http://www.raumklang.de/de/katalog/index.html

 

CD 2:
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 – 1784): Sinfonie in F-Dur für Streicher und B. c.
8. Vivace 3 : 12
9. Andante 2 : 55
10. Allegro 2: 09
11. Menuett I und II 2 : 44

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791): Divertimento in F-Dur KV 138 für Streicher
12. Allegro 3 : 52
13. Andante 3 : 52
14. Presto 2: 30

 

Related release (non-IGA): La voce nel violino: musiche di Castello, Cima, Fontana, Rognoni, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi, Pandolfi

Label: Zig Zag Territoires

Release date: 2007

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Imaginarium

Enrico Onofri, violin & conductor
 

more info on http://www.zigzag-territoires.com/article.php3?id_article=1395&lang=fr

 

 

Related release (non-IGA): W. A. Mozart, Symphony n°40 & Serenata Notturna

Label: Nichion-Harbor Records

Release date: 2007

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Divino Sospiro

conducted by Enrico Onofri

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

recent releases 

 

 

 

Concerti per violoncello Volume I:

RV 398 - RV 406 - RV 410 - RV 419 - RV 421 - RV 409 - RV 414

Label: Opus111

Release date: april 2007

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Christophe Coin, cello

Il Giardino Armonico

Giovanni Antonini

Related release (non-IGA): Bach: Violin Sonatas

Label: Onyx

Release date: june 2007

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Viktoria Mullova, violin
Ottavio Dantone, harpsichord & organ
Vittorio Ghielmi, viola da gamba
Luca Pianca, lute

 

 

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