"Il
Giardino Armonico are as Italian as the music itself—brightly
coloured, individualistic, confident, stylish, arrestingly decorated,
bubbling with enthusiasm and... add your own
adjectives."
-
John Duarte, Gramophone Magazine
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news
July 2009: forthcoming release
This Fall a new 2CD-set by Cecilia
Bartoli & Il Giardino Armonico will be released on Decca: "Sacrificium",
with music by Caldara, Leo, Porpora, Graun, Hasse, Handel &
Araia.
July 2009: link update
The website of
Enrico Onofrio, violinist of Il Giardino Armonico can now be
found at
http://www.enricoonofri.com. The old link (www.enricoonofri.it)
is no longer active.
July 2009: related release
Luca Pianca &
Vittorio Ghielmi have recorded a new CD, called La force et
la douceur, with music by Marin Marais and Jacques Gallot.
More details can be found
here.
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 ")
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.
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)
.
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)
Forthcoming release:
Sacrificium
Label:
Decca (2CDs)
Release date:
October 2009
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Cecilia Bartoli
Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini
Music by Hasse, Graun,
Handel, Leo, Porpora, Araia & Caldara
Disc 1
1. Come nave in mezzo all'onde
2. Profezie, di me diceste
3. Cadrò, ma qual si mira
4. Parto to lascio, o cara
5. Usignuolo sventurato
6. Misero pargoletto
7. In braccio a mille furie
8. Qual farfalla
9. Nobil onda
10. Deh, tu bel Dio d'amore...Ov'è il mio ben
11. Chi temea Giove regnante
12. Quel buon pastor son io
Disc 2
1. Son qual nave
2. Ombra mai fù
3. Sposa, non mi conosci
New release: Il
Pianto di Maria - The Virgin's Lament
Label:
L'Oiseau Lyre
Release date:
May 2009
.
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
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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
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:
Raumklang
Label:
Zig Zag Territoires
Label:
Nichion-Harbor Records
Label:
Opus111 
Label:
Onyx