Handel in Italy: A showcase for Il Giardino Armonico as much as for Julia Lezhneva

By Nahoko Gotoh, 10 May 2014

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“Il Giardino Armonico... detailed attention to colour and phrasing... an amazing range of dynamics”

Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 7 May 2014

Handel, Agrippina: Sinfonia

Handel, Rodrigo: Pugneran con noi le stelle

Handel, Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op.6 no.6, HWV 324

Handel, Saeviat tellus inter rigores, HWV 240

Handel, Concerto Grosso in D major, Op.6 No.5, HWV 323

Handel, Agrippina: Pensieri, voi mi tormentate

Handel, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno: Un pensiero nemico di pace

Handel, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a: Lascia la spina

Handel, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a: Come nembo che fugge col vento

Geminiani, Concerto Grosso in D minor "La Follia", Op.5 no.12

Il Giardino Armonico

Giovanni Antonini, Conductor

Julia Lezhneva, Soprano

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

Spirited Mozart from Isabelle Faust and Il Giardino Armonico in Tokyo

Nahoko Gotoh, 11th December

Isabelle Faust, Giovanni Antonini and the Italian period instrument ensemble Il Giardino Armonico gather again for Mozart's complete Violin Concertos.

*****

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

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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.