Giacomo Carissimi - Jonas (Giovanni Antonini)

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• Giacomo Carissimi - Jonas
• Claudio Monteverdi - Lamento d'Arianna, SV 107
• Orlando di Lasso - Lagrime di San Pietro, LV 1005-1025
• Orlando di Lasso - Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060

Q-Won Han; Magdalena Dijkstra; Mareike Braun

Kerstin Rosenfeldt; Andreas Hirtreiter

Nicolas Ries; Korbinian Schlag

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Il Giardino Armonico

Giovanni Antonini, conductor

Date: 2026

Label: BR-Klassik

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This album presents a compelling survey of early Baroque vocal music, anchored by Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674)’s seminal oratorio Jonas, which blends sacred narrative, dramatic expression, and musical virtuosity. Under Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico and the Bavarian Radio Chorus deliver a historically informed performance, highlighting emotionally charged solo recitatives and complex choral textures, including a striking double chorus depicting the storm. The program also explores the evolution of dramatic vocal music through works by Claudio Monteverdi, including the Lamento d’Arianna, and Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum and Lagrime di San Pietro, illustrating the transition from late Renaissance motet to the expressive early Baroque idiom.

Giovanni Antonini, born in 1965 in Milan, studied at the Civica Scuola di Musica and the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. He co-founded and has led the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico since 1989, performing globally. He collaborates with prominent artists such as Cecilia Bartoli, Isabelle Faust, Sol Gabetta, and Viktoria Mullova. Antonini serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Kammerorchester Basel and Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg and regularly leads major orchestras including the Berliner Philharmoniker and London Symphony. He has conducted opera at La Scala, Salzburg Festival, and Opernhaus Zurich, recorded for major labels, and directs the Wratislavia Cantans Festival and the Haydn 2032 project to perform and record all of Haydn’s symphonies.

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