They met in June 250 years after the death of Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the most prolific composers of those who have memory. Hand of its director, Giovanni Antonini, set Milanese Il Giardino Armonico commemorates the anniversary with a purely instrumental program that covers the most important genres of the time: suites, as linked to French music, concerts and sonatas, Main samples of Italian style, Three forms of music in which the German composer left countless samples of the variety and richness of their creative resources.
Il Giardino Armonico, founded in 1985 and directed by Giovanni Antonini has established itself as one of the instruments ensembles with world leading time, bringing together musicians from some of the leading European institutions. IGA's repertoire focuses mainly on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, depending on each program, They range from training 3 until 30 musicians.
After many years recording with Teldec Classics exclusive, getting the most important awards for his albums of works by Vivaldi and other composers of the eighteenth century, the group signed a record deal exclusively with Decca / L'Oiseau-Lyre. With this seal have been published
"Concerti Grossi Op VI" y the cantata "The Tears of Mary" with Bernarda Fink, both of Haendel. In 2009 collaboration with Cecilia Bartoli led to the "Sacrificium" project, incluía que el disco de Il Giardino Armonico (awarded the Platinum in France and Belgium in the first three months) and a long European tour. On disc de la opera "Ottone in Villa" de Vivaldi, published by Naïve, He was awarded the Diapason d'Or in January 2011. The album "Alleluia", with soprano Julia Lezhneva (published by Decca in March 2013), He received unanimous acclaim from the press and the public and, as a result of further collaboration with Lezhneva, in October 2015 It was published "Händel in Italy".
Il Giardino Armonico is a regular guest at festivals around the world and has performed in major concert halls and received standing ovations both concerts as opera productions staged, as Orfeo, Agrippina, The Triumph of Time Disillusion y La Resurrection de Haendel, Ottone in Villa de Vivaldi y Giulio Cesare in Egypt en de Haendel 2012 Festivals in Salzburg Whitsun and Summer.
The ensemble has worked with soloists such as Giuliano dest acados Carmignola, Christophe Coin, Katia y Marielle Labèque, Bernarda Fink, Viktoria Mullova y Cecilia Bartoli. His current projects include collaborations with cellist Sol Gabetta, chelista and Giovanni Sollima, An soprano
Prohaska (in September 2016 the album was released "Serpent & Fire” con Alpha Classics-Outhere), violinist Isabelle Faust and (with recording
five Mozart violin concertos which were published in October 2016 Harmonia Mundi).
In November 2014 the first disc of the complete symphonies of F.J published. Haydn, Titulado "The Passion", which she won an Echo Klassik Award. "The Philosopher", published in 2015, He received the CHOC of the Year of the magazine Classica. The third disc, "Thoughtfully and Only", It was published in August 2016 and the fourth "Il Distratto" in March 2017. All this within a twenty-year project entitled "Haydn2032" for which created the Foundation in Basel Haydn, to support both the recording project as a series of concerts in several European cities, thematic programs focused on this fascinating repertoire.
Regarding the last volumes of the "Haydn2032", in November 2016 the album "Telemann" was published (CD and LP). "Telemann" won the Diapason d'Or in January 2017.
National Auditorium, Symphony hall
5 December at 19:30h