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Giovanni Antonini has been recording the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn with the Alpha label for more than five years. Now the series is enriched by Die Schöpfung (The Creation), recorded in 2019 with the Bavarian Radio Chorus and his own orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico. This great oratorio was inspired by those of Handel, which Haydn heard performed by very large forces during his visits to England. The marriage between the Bavarian chorus, so familiar with this masterpiece, and the period-instrument musicians of Il Giardino Armonico works perfectly, with a vocal trio composed of leading soloists: Anna Lucia Richter, Maximilian Schmitt and Florian Boesch.
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Nominee in the Choral category
Gramophone Awards 2021
“… this is a win-win performance that should please everyone … The recorded sound is remarkably fresh and natural, with soloists in front of the orchestra and chorus behind…”
James H North – Fanfare – May/June 2021
“A fine performance of Haydn’s extraordinary masterpiece.”
William Hedley – MusicWeb-International.com – 17 February 2021
**** Excellent Album
Marc Vignal - Classica magazine (France) - February 2021
“… It is that kind of all-encompassing performance. I have no idea whether Antonini is exercised by the naivety some perceive in The Creation. If he is, he doesn’t for one moment betray any such concern. It is his inspiring direction, his multi-faceted conception of a work that runs a gamut from ultimate grandeur to near child-like wonder, that has produced this spellbinding, life-enhancing testament.”
Brian Robins – Early Music Review.com – 20 November 2020
Nominee in Choral Category
International Classical Music Awards 2021
Performance **** Recording *****
Misha Donat - BBC Music magazine - Christmas 2020
“… a modest and rather tender performance of “Die Schöpfung”, complementing Antonini’s ongoing Haydn journey.”
Leighton Jones - theclassicreview.com – 23 October 2020
“… Many of the solo numbers have a chamber-musical intimacy. But except for a smartly paced Sunrise, Antonini and his forces never stint on the oratorio’s grandeur. Orchestra and firm-toned Bavarian choir (with a notably incisive alto line) pack a powerful punch in the big choruses, not least in the thrillingly clinched climax of ‘Die Himmel erzählen’ … Soprano and tenor soloists, both fresh and youthful of tone and elegant in style, give pleasure throughout…”
Richard Wigmore – Gramophone magazine – November 2020
Album of the Week
“Antonini joins forces with the Bavarian Radio Chorus for a gripping account of Haydn’s great 1798 oratorio, The Creation…”
Hugh Canning – The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) – 25 October 2020
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