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Haydn 2032, Vol. 10: Les heures du jour
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Symphonie
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Building A Library, April 2026, Top Choice
Antonini sets out deliberately to counter the kind of smooth, polished sound cultivated by such conductors as Karajan. Certainly, the spiky approach of Il Giardino Armonico’s playing makes for...
Haydn 2032, Vol. 10: Les heures du jour
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Symphonie
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Building A Library, April 2026, Top Choice
Antonini sets out deliberately to counter the kind of smooth, polished sound cultivated by such conductors as Karajan. Certainly, the spiky approach of Il Giardino Armonico’s playing makes for...
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The HAYDN2032 edition celebrates the release of the tenth volume in the complete recording of Haydn’s 107 symphonies. Entitled ‘The Times of Day’, this programme is devoted to Symphonies nos. 6, 7 and 8, whose individual names translate as ‘Morning’, ‘Noon’ and ‘Evening’. Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, who commissioned the work, is said to have wanted to show his guests that his orchestra was of excellent quality and that ‘his’ Haydn was highly inventive. Giovanni Antonini’s orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico, once again rises to the challenge! This triptych following the sun’s course is prolonged into the night by the work of another composer: Mozart’s Serenade in D major, nicknamed Serenata notturna, probably written for a masked ball at Salzburg Town Hall in February 1776. Jérôme Sessini of the Magnum agency, who has won awards for his work on the cartel wars in Mexico and the opioid crisis in the United States, took the photographs featured in this volume.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineCritics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone MagazineSeptember 2021Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’OrOctober 2021Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards2022Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année2021Symphonie
September 2021
Antonini sets out deliberately to counter the kind of smooth, polished sound cultivated by such conductors as Karajan. Certainly, the spiky approach of Il Giardino Armonico’s playing makes for arresting and dramatic listening.
September 2021
Fast movements fizz and crackle, with virtuoso sallies from the Giardino Armonico soloists. Bass lines are always vital and animated, with never a hint of auto-chug.
11th July 2021
Antonini’s orchestra’s bracing textures, swift but unrushed tempi and his evocations of Morning’s famous “Sunrise” and Evening’s spectacular storm must be heard.
19th June 2021
As a trio of works they are boundless in invention. The clarity of the orchestration is made transparent and gleaming by the soloists of Il Giardino Armonico, who also make the most of every joke or surprise.
