La Passione: Haydn & Gluck Il Giardino Armonico Ensemble & Giovanni Antonini

• 1 I. Allegro assai 05:21
• 2 II. Andante 03:43
• 3 III. Menuet - Trio 02:28
• 4 IV. Finale: Allegro di molto 04:32
• 5 Sinfonia: Allegro 01:36
• 6 I. Andante grazioso 01:05
• 7 II. Andante 02:07
• 8 III. Allegro forte risoluto 02:07
• 9 IV. Allegro gustoso 01:27
• 10 V. Moderato 00:59
• 11 VI. Grazioso 01:08
• 12 VII. Allegro 01:30
• 13 VIII. Moderato - Presto 00:52
• 14 IX. Risoluto e moderato 00:59
• 15 X. Allegro - XI. Allegro - XII. Allegro 00:47
• 16 XIII. Andante staccato 01:25
• 17 XIV. Larghetto 02:04
• 18 XV. Allegro non troppo 04:07
• 19 I. Adagio 07:41
• 20 II. Allegro di molto 06:22
• 21 III. Minuet and Trio 03:50
• 22 IV. Finale: Presto 03:01
• 23 I. Presto 04:47
• 24 II. Andante 05:45
• 25 III. Finale: Presto 02:02
• Total Runtime 01:11:45

Info for La Passione: Haydn & Gluck

‘Symphony No. 49 is of dramatic inspiration, as is the finale of the 39th (with four horns!) in a fairly “Gluckist” style. We are at the beginnings of Sturm und Drang.

‘The first performance of Gluck’s ballet Don Juan, in Vienna in 1761, was an outstanding event in the development of dramatic expression in music. This was the first “modern” ballet, featuring dancers illustrating the story, not through a pre-established dance form (minuet, gavotte, etc.) but through free expression of their bodies.

‘I am truly captivated by the very strong correspondence existing in Gluck’s score between the story of Don Juan (the dancers’ movements) and the music, like a sort of little dictionary of musical gestures, with elements that are to be found in purely instrumental music of the period, including Haydn’s. ‘Yet it was in the 1760s (thus after the first performance of Gluck’s Don Juan) that Haydn began his first “dramatic” symphonies. ‘So I find it very interesting to bring together this piece by Gluck and these symphonies.’

Il Giardino Armonico Ensemble
Giovanni Antonini, conductor

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