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Giovanni Antonini and his ensemble Il Giardino Armonico celebrate the composer who made them famous: Antonio Vivaldi. Their recordings of The Four Seasons and Cecilia Bartoli’s famous first Vivaldi recital left an indelible mark on the discography of the Red-haired Priest! Their musical fireworks display continues with a programme of concertos that is bound to provoke strong reactions, since it is the result of a meeting with a musician who is equally adept at shifting boundaries, the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Together they have devised a programme entitled WHAT'S NEXT VIVALDI?, which interweaves ultra-virtuosic concertos by Vivaldi (Il Grosso Mogul RV 208, La Tempesta di Mare (for violin!) RV 253, and RV 157, 191, 550 among others) with, between each concerto, short pieces written by much more recent composers, Luca Francesconi, Simone Movio, Giacinto Scelsi, Aureliano Cattaneo and Giovanni Sollima, and mostly commissioned by Patricia Kopatchinskaja especially for this programme.
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Nominee in Assorted Programs Category
International Classical Music Awards 2021
“You can always count on violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja to come up with something different and interesting, and so it proves with her latest release What’s Next Vivaldi?... The CD interweaves ultra-virtuosic concertos by Vivaldi with short pieces by current composers mostly commissioned specifically for this program… an intriguing disc full of top-drawer playing.”
Terry Robbins – thewholenote.com – 2 November 2020
*** Good Album
Jeremie Bigorie - Classica magazine (France) - November 2020
“… The whole thing becomes even more exciting because the musicians often contrast the Vivaldi pieces with very powerful contemporary works (Francesconi, Stroppa, etc.) and thus achieve fascinating contrasts.” ****
Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 6 September 2020
“… when Patricia Kopatchinskaja, that flaming free spirit of the fiddle, attacks four Vivaldi violin concertos (he wrote about 230), you know that the music-making will be special. Playing alongside Giovanni Antonini’s group, Il Giardino Armonico, no shrinking violets themselves, she hurtles through notes with such dizzying speed and athletic force that the listener’s head starts to whirl… To underline that Vivaldi is a 21-st century man, not a mere porcelain bust, each concerto is interwoven with five short pieces from contemporary Italian composers, variously skittish, unearthly and sun-drenched, each with Vivaldi echoes. All are worth listening to…” ****
Geoff Brown – The Times – 11 September 2020
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