Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico
Conductor: Giovanni Antonini
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2020
Size: 2.42 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Joseph Haydn:
Symphony No. 63 in C Major, Hob.I:63 “La Roxolana”
01. I. Allegro
02. II. La Roxolana. Allegretto piu tosto allegro
03. III. Menuet – Trio
04. IV. Finale. Presto
Symphony No. 43 in E-Flat Major, Hob.I:43 “Mercury”
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Adagio
07. III. Menuet – Trio
08. IV. Finale. Allegro
Béla Bartók:
Romanian Folk Dances, SZ. 68, BB 76
09. I. Joc cu bǎtǎ (Allegro moderato)
10. II. Brǎul (Allegro)
11. III. Pê-loc (Andante)
12. IV. Buciumeana (Moderato)
13. V. Puargǎ romǎneascǎ (Allegro)
14. VI. Mǎrunţel (L’istesso tempo)
15. VII. Mǎrunţel (Allegro vivace)
16. anon. : Sonata Jucunda: Adagio – Presto – Adagio – Allegro – Allegro – Allegro – Adagio – Adagio – Allegro – Adagio
Joseph Haydn:
Symphony No. 28 in A major, Hob.I:28
17. I. Allegro di molto
18. II. Poco adagio
19. III. Menuet. Allegro molto – Trio
20. IV. Presto assai
For its eighth volume, Haydn2032 invites us on a musical journey that takes the Balkan route. Of all the Viennese Classical School , Joseph Haydn is certainly the composer closest to folk music, first because he spent his early years in the countryside and also because, unlike his colleagues who worked in the urban centres of the Habsburg monarchy, Haydn was in contact with Croats, Roma and Hungarians throughout his life. These influences were omnipresent in his music, to the delight of Prince Nikolaus I Esterházy and his guests, but by some accounts were not to the taste of many music theorists in Germany. Haydn gave his Symphony no.63 in C major the title of La Roxolana , from the famous sixteenth-century sultana who was the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent after having been his slave. As usual, Giovanni Antonini, who is reunited here with Il Giardino Armonico, juxtaposes Haydn’s music with that of another composer. The natural choice here was Bela Bartók, who is represented by his Romanian Folk Dances, composed in 1917.