Haydn: Die Schöpfung Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Il Giardino Armonico & Giovanni Antonini

• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil:
• 1Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Introduzione "Die Vorstellung des Chaos"05:36
• 2Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Recitatio con coro "Im Anfange schud Gott Himmel und Erde"02:32
• 3Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Aria con coro "Nun schwanden vor dem heiligen Strahle"03:57
• 4Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Recitativo "Und Gott machte das Firmament"02:00
• 5Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Coro con soprano solo "Mit Staunen sieht das Wunderwerk"02:08
• 6Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Recitativo "Und Gott sprach: Es sammle sich das Wasser"00:40
• 7Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Aria "Rollend in schäumenden Wellen"03:41
• 8Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Recitativo "Und Gott sprach: Es bringe die Erde Gras hervor"00:35
• 9Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Aria "Nun beut die Flur das frische Grün"05:07
• 10Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Recitativo "Und die himmlischen Heerscharen verkündigten"00:12
• 11Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Coro "Stimmt an die Saiten"02:15
• 12Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Recitativo "Und Gott sprach: Es sei'n Lichter an der Feste des Himmels"00:41
• 13Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Recitativo "In vollem Glanze steiget jetzt die Sonne"02:35
• 14Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Erster Teil: Coro con soli "Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes"04:01
• Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil:
• 15Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Recitativo "Und Gott sprach: Es bringe das Wasser in der Fülle hervor"00:31
• 16Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Aria " Auf starkem Fittiche schwinget sich der Adler stolz"07:21
• 17Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Recitativo "Und Gott schuf große Walfisch"02:40
• 18Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Terzetto "In holder Anmut stehn"04:11
• 19Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Coro con soli "Der Herr ist groß in seiner Macht"02:05
• 20Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Recitativo "Und Gott sprach: Es bringe die Erde hervor lebende Geschöpfe"00:25
• 21Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Recitativo "Gleich öffnet sich der Erde Schoß"03:11
• 22Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Aria "Nun scheint in vollem Glanze der Himmel"03:00
• 23Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Recitativo " Und Gott schuf den Menschen"00:39
• 24Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Aria "Mit Würd' und Hoheit angetan"03:31
• 25Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Recitativo "Und Gott sah jedes Ding"00:27
• 26Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Zweiter Teil: Coro con soli "Vollendet ist das große Werk"08:52
• Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Dritter Teil:
• 27Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Dritter Teil: Recitativo "Aus Rosenwolken bricht04:12
• 28Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Dritter Teil: Coro con soli "Von deiner Güt', o Herr und Gott"08:59
• 29Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Dritter Teil: Recitativo "Nun ist die erste Pflicht erfüllt"02:31
• 30Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Dritter Teil: Duetto " Holde Gattin, dir zur Seite"07:56
• 31Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Dritter Teil: Recitativo "O glücklich Paar, und glücklich immerfort"00:27
• 32Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2, Dritter Teil: Coro con soli "Singt dem Herren alle Stimmen!"03:19
• Total Runtime01:40:17

Info for Haydn: Die Schöpfung

Giovanni Antonini has been recording the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn with the Alpha label for more than five years. Now the series is enriched by another monument by the Austrian composer: Die Schöpfung (The Creation), recorded in 2019 with the Bavarian Radio Chorus and his own orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico. This great oratorio was inspired by those of Handel, which Haydn heard performed by very large forces during his visits to England. The Creation, composed between September 1796 and April 1798, demanded such a colossal effort of him that he even fell ill just after its first performance; but the work enjoyed immense success. The marriage between the Bavarian chorus, so familiar with this masterpiece, and the period-instrument musicians of Il Giardino Armonico works perfectly, with a vocal trio composed of leading soloists: Anna Lucia Richter, Maximilian Schmitt and Florian Boesch.

Anna Lucia Richter, soprano (Gabriel, Eva)
Gabriele Weinfurter, mezzo
Maximilian Schmitt, tenor (Uriel)
Florian Boesch, baritone (Raphael, Adam)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, direction

Il Giardino Armonico
Founded in 1985 and conducted by Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico has established itself as one of the world’s leading period instrument ensembles, bringing together musicians from Europe’s relevant music institutions. The ensemble’s repertoire mainly focuses on the 17th and 18th century. Depending on the demands of each program, the group consists of six up to thirty musicians.

Il Giardino Armonico is regularly invited to festivals all over the world performing in the most important concert halls and receiving high acclaim for both concerts and opera productions, such as Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa, Handel’s Agrippina, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, La Resurrezione and Giulio Cesare in Egitto with Cecilia Bartoli during the 2012 edition of the Salzburg Whitsun and Summer Festival.

Besides, Il Giardino Armonico sustains an intense recording activity.

After many years as an exclusive ensemble of Teldec achieving several major awards for the recordings of works by Vivaldi and the other 18th century composers, the orchestra had an exclusive agreement with Decca/L’Oiseau-Lyre recording Handel’s Concerti Grossi op. VI and the cantata Il Pianto di Maria with Bernarda Fink. Il Giardino Armonico also released on Naïve La Casa del Diavolo, Vivaldi’s Cello Concertos with Christophe Coin, as well as the opera Ottone in Villa, that won the Diapason d’Or in 2011. Furthermore, for the label Onyx it recorded Vivaldi’s Violin Concertos with Viktoria Mullova.

After the universal success and the Grammy Award received for The Vivaldi Album with Cecilia Bartoli (Decca, 2000), a new cooperation with her in 2009 led to the project Sacrificium (Decca), a Platinum Album in France and Belgium and a further Grammy Award. The most recent project with Cecilia Bartoli brought about the release of the album Farinelli (Decca, 2019).

On Decca Il Giardino Armonico also published Alleluia (March 2013) and Händel in Italy (October 2015) with Julia Lezhneva, volumes acclaimed by the public and critics.

In co-production with National Forum of Music in Wroclaw (Poland), Il Giardino Armonico published Serpent & Fire with Anna Prohaska (Alpha Classics – Outhere Music Group, 2016) winning the ICMA “Baroque Vocal” in 2017. The ensemble recorded the Telemann CD and LP (Alpha Classics, 2016), that won the Diapason d’Or de l’Année and the Echo Klassik Award in 2017.

The recording of five Mozart Violin Concertos with Isabel Faust (Harmonia Mundi, 2016) stands as the result of the prestigious cooperation with the great violinist, winning the Gramophone Award and Le Choc de l’année in 2017.

A new Vivaldi Album Concerti per flauto has been published (Alpha Classics, March 2020): a generous bouquet of this repertoire with Giovanni Antonini as soloist, recorded between 2011 and 2017.

Il Giardino Armonico is part of the project Haydn2032, for which the Haydn Foundation was created in Basel to support both the recording project of the complete Haydn Symphonies (label: Alpha Classic) and a series of concerts in various European cities with thematic programs focused on this repertoire. In November 2014 the first album titled La Passione was released and won the Echo Klassik Award (2015). Il Filosofo, issued in 2015, has been awarded with the “Choc of the Year” by Classica. The third album Solo e Pensoso was released in August 2016; the fourth Il Distratto in March 2017, winning the Gramophone Award in the same year. The eighth volume La Roxolana has been published in Jan 2020.

The ensemble worked also with such acclaimed soloists as Giuliano Carmignola, Sol Gabetta, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Viktoria Mullova and Giovanni Sollima.

The most recent projects include the recording of La Morte della Ragione (co-produced with National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, published by Alpha Classics and awarded with the Diapason d’Or in 2019), a program focused on the raise of Baroque sensibility through Europe and the search for a renewed listening experience of early music.

In 2018, Il Giardino Armonico continued the collaboration with the young and gifted violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja with a new program of fertile tension between past and future, bringing together philological accuracy and contemporary music: the volume What’s next, Vivaldi? will be soon published on Alpha Classics.

Giovanni Antonini
studied at the Civica Scuola di Musica and at the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. He is a founder member of the Baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, which he has led since 1989. With this ensemble he has appeared as conductor and soloist on the recorder and Baroque transverse flute in Europe, United States, Canada, South America, Australia, Japan and Malaysia. He is Artistic Director of Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Poland and Principal Guest Conductor of Mozarteum Orchester and Kammerorchester Basel.

He has performed with many prestigious artists including Cecilia Bartoli, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Giuliano Carmignola, Isabelle Faust, Sol Gabetta, Sumi Jo, Viktoria Mullova, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Emmanuel Pahud and Giovanni Sollima. Renowned for his refined and innovative interpretation of the classical and baroque repertoire, Antonini is also a regular guest with Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouworkest, Tonhalle Orchester, Mozarteum Orchester, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, London Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

His opera productions have included Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Handel’s Alcina at Teatro alla Scala in Milano and Opernhaus Zurich, Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Bellini’s Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at Salzburg Festival. In 2018 he conducted Orlando at Theater an der Wien and returned to Opernhaus Zurich for Idomeneo. During the 2019-20 season, Antonini conducts Giulio Cesare in Egitto at La Scala and returns to Mozarteum Orchester, Tonhalle Orchester, Czech Philhamonic and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischer Rundfunk.

With Il Giardino Armonico Antonini has recorded numerous CDs of instrumental works by Vivaldi, J.S. Bach (Brandenburg Concertos), Biber and Locke for Teldec. With Naïve he recorded Vivaldi’s opera Ottone in Villa, and for Decca he has recorded 2 volumes with Julia Lezhneva. Later with Alpha Classics (Outhere Music Group) he released various albums: among all La Morte della Ragione, collections of sixteenth and seventeenth century instrumental music. With Kammerorchester Basel he has recorded the complete Beethoven Symphonies for Sony Classical and a disc of flute concertos with Emmanuel Pahud entitled Revolution for Warner Classics. In 2013 he conducted a recording of Bellini’s Norma for Decca in collaboration with Orchestra La Scintilla.

Antonini is Artistic Director of the Haydn2032 project, created to realise a vision to record and perform with Il Giardino Armonico and Kammerorchester Basel the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn by the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The first 8 volumes have been released on the Alpha Classics label with two further volumes planned for release every year.

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