Alpha - up to 45% off
Until 20th November 2024, we're offering up to 45% off all recordings on the Alpha label including downloads. Please note that some titles are while stocks last and will be removed from the offer once sold out.
Alpha - up to 45% off, Il Giardino Armonico (early music ensemble)
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Special offer. Haydn 2032 Volume 4 - Il Distratto
RecommendedIl Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
As in the previous volumes, the orchestral playing is breathtaking in its accuracy -the sort of Haydn playing you dream of…this may well become the period-instrument Haydn cycle by which all... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Orchestral
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Special offer. Haydn 2032, Vol. 10: Les heures du jour
RecommendedIl Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
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... — More…
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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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Special offer. Telemann - Music for Recorder
Giovanni Antonini (recorder/director)
Il Giardino Armonico
Antonini proves an athletic and affectionate communicator of this sophisticated music, enlivening the dances with well-judged tempos, cogent articulation and a light tread that would grace any... — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Baroque
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Special offer. Haydn: Die Schöpfung
RecommendedAnna Lucia Richter (soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Il Giardino Armonico, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Giovanni Antonini
Antonini has a fine line-up of soloists, and they clearly enjoy themselves: the soprano Anna Lucia Richter and the tenor Maximilian Schmidt both have attractively light-toned voices, and Richter’s... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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Special offer. Haydn 2032, Vol. 9: L'Addio
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Antonini’s standing among the most vital of current Haydn conductors is as evident here in the hushed intensity he brings to the remote Adagio of the Farewell Symphony as it is in the driving... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Serpent & Fire
RecommendedAnna Prohaska (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
a maddening, fascinating and often bewitching disc — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Antonini (Italy’s answer to the Pied Piper) coaxes alluring sounds from his battery of instruments (recorders, flute, dulcian, chalumeau), and the 13 members of his ensemble follow with equal... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2019, Winner - Musique ancienne
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Special offer. What's Next Vivaldi?
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
No one cooks up a Vivaldian storm like Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The opening movement of La tempesta di mare is a churning cauldron of tempestuous fury that would surely have terrified Poseidon... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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Antonini's spiky performance style, with period instruments playing at modern pitch, is sometimes a touch overheated, but there's no denying its effectiveness…and it's good to have these still... — More…
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Haydn and Bartók? Such unexpected pairings are one reason this ambitious series works so well, another being the sparkling performances. — More…
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