Il Giardino Armonico Box Set - 11 CDsWarner Classics, release 2006
Award winning ensemble Giardino Armonico's powerful and dramatic performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons has made their name in the field of Baroque music. Gramophone sites their recording of the Four Seasons - included in this remarkable 11CD box set - as one of the best ever. Plus works by Albinoni, Bach, Biber, Corelli, Handel, Locke, Monteverdi, Pachelbel, Scarlatti, Telemann, Vivaldi and others.
CD 1: Italian Music of the XVII Century - CD 2: Neapolitan Chamber Music - CD 3: Chrismas Concerto - CD 4: Vivaldi: Chamber Concertos - CD 5: Vivaldi: Double and Triple Concertos - CD 6: Vivaldi: Concertos for Lute and Mandolin - CD 7: Vivaldi: Concertos from "Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione" (The Four Seasons) - CD 8: Theatrical Music and Music for the Theatre - CD 9: Baroque Masterpieces - CD 10: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-3 - CD 11: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 4-6
Il Giardino Armonico, founded in Milan in 1985, brings together a number of graduates from some of Europe’s leading colleges of music, all of whom have specialised in playing on period instruments. The ensemble’s repertory is concentrated in the main on the 17th and 18th centuries. Depending on the demands of each programme, the group will consist of anything from 3 to 30 musicians.
Il Giardino Armonico is regularly invited to many festivals all over the world as Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio in Milan, Styriarte Festival in Graz, Salzburger Pfingsten Festival, Osterklang in Vienna, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Rheingau Festival, Internationale Musikfestwochen in Luzern, Festival de Musique de Montreux-Vevey and has performed in the most important concert halls. Among them are Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Tonhalle in Zurich, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin, Glinka Hall and Philharmonic in St. Petersburg, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Konserthus in Oslo, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Oji Hall in Tokyo, Library of Congress in Washington, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Sydney Opera House.
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