Spirited Mozart from Isabelle Faust and Il Giardino Armonico in Tokyo

Isabelle Faust, Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico

By Nahoko Gotoh, 15 December 2024

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“elevated this elegant but fairly simple music to a higher realm”

Reviewed at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Tokyo on 11 December 2024

Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 2 in D major, K211

Gluck, Don Juan: Suite

Mozart, Rondo in C major for Violin, K373

Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major "Turkish", K219

Isabelle Faust, Violin

Il Giardino Armonico

Giovanni Antonini, Conductor

Taking risks that pay off at the Enescu Festival

Peter Quantrill, 13th September

The Giocoso’s Enescu and Il Giardino Armonico’s Beethoven bookend an exhilarating day of rarities and classics.

****1

Isabelle Faust and Il Giardino Armonico at Sommets Musicaux

David Karlin, 1st February

Giovanni Antonini leads Il Giardino Armonico through a sampler of Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, with a stellar Isabelle Faust leading the soloists.

****1

Pre-Baroque rarity for a grand season opening at Theater an der Wien

Laura Servidei, 19th September

A superlative cast led by Annett Fritsch and Cyril Auvity dazzle in Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s “musical drama” in a brilliant production by Robert Carsen.

*****

Modern Queens: Anna Prohaska at the Proms

Kevin W Ng, 2nd August

Anna Prohaska reigns supreme in programme of Cleopatra and Dido-inspired Baroque arias in her late night Prom.

****1

Il giardino armonico’s bouquet of Baroque bonbons causes a sensation in Wrocław

Jonathan Sutherland, 10th September

A concert at the Andrzej Markowski International Wratislavia Cantans Festival that was anything but traditional or predictable.

****1

Anna Prohaska: pure and precise

Jenny Camilleri, 27th September

Themed around legendary African queens Dido and Cleopatra, Prohaska’s recital with the virtuosi of Il Giardino Armonico could serve as a template for the ideal Baroque programme.

****1

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Nahoko Gotoh

Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.