Il Giardino Armonico: Baroque music for a 21st century audience

Recorded for television in Sicily, in a variety of evocative locations around Palermo, strikingly set and lit for the ensemble’s performances, this film reflects Il Giardino Armonico’s dynamic approach to music-making in its use of video techniques: Baroque music for a twenty-first-century audience.

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With its distinctive sound and diverse repertoire, Il Giardino Armonico is one of today’s most notable Baroque ensembles. Colorful, individualistic and stylish, it was founded by Luca Pianca (lute and theorbo) and Giovanni Antonini (flute) in 1985 and has remained essentially Italian in character, though its members include graduates from leading music colleges around Europe, all specialists in playing period instruments.

Regular appearances and tours in Europe, America and Japan have won them an enthusiastic international following and their recordings have garnered numerous awards. The group’s musical focus is the Italian repertoire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and, depending on the demands of individual programs, it brings together from three to twenty-six musicians.

0:00 Dario Castello - Sonata IV
8:10 Giovanni Battista Spadi - Anchor che co’l partire’ di Cipriano de Rore
11:58 Biagio Marini - Sonata ‘Sopra la Monica’ a 3
16:40 Dario Castello - Sonata X a 3
23:32 Tarquinio Merula - Ciaccona a 3
27:16 Antonio Vivaldi - Lute concerto in D major, RV 93
36:25 Antonio Vivaldi - Il gardellino
47:26 Antonio Vivaldi - La Notte

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