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NO.21 __LA GALLINA
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Lorenz Langenegger, writer
Martin Parr / Werner Bischof, photographer
Joseph Haydn: Symphonies No.57, No.58 and No.83 «La Poule», Carlo Farina: Capriccio stravagante a 4
Concerts:
4 October 2024, Vienna, Musikverein
11 October 2024, Basel Don Bosco (tickets)
Five years after his appointment as vice-Kapellmeister to the Esterházy princes, Joseph Haydn was promoted to Kapellmeister following the death of his superior Gregor Joseph Werner, and on 2 May 1766 he purchased a house at no.82 Klostergasse in Eisenstadt. He and his wife Maria Anna lived there for twelve and a half years until, in 1778, they moved into the ‘Musicians’ House’ at Eszterháza Palace, the erstwhile summer retreat of Prince Nicolaus I which had gradually become his principal residence throughout the year.
The Haydns’ house also possessed a kitchen garden, situated at the rear of the former civic hospital, which the couple used to grow their own food. They may have kept chickens there, along with their ‘Deputatsschwein’, the pig with which the Kapellmeister’s contract of employment specified he had to be supplied every year (in addition to other payments in kind in the form of substantial quantities of wine, grain, salt, firewood and candles).
In any case, it would appear that the musicians’ quarters at Eszterháza, where a total of fifty-four rooms had to accommodate the entire court orchestra as well as the travelling theatre companies contracted to appear there each year, were considerably less tranquil than his house in Eisenstadt and, above all, sometimes fairly noisy.
Hence one can easily imagine the clucking of hens in the courtyard wafting its way up to Haydn’s first floor apartment one morning in 1785, when he was in the process of writing the Allegro spiritoso of his Symphony no.83 in G minor, intended for performance in Paris.
Program
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony no.57 D Major Hob. I:57 (1774)
Adagio – Allegro di molto / Adagio / Menuet. Allegretto – Trio / Finale. Prestissimo
SYMPHONY NO.57 D MAJOR HOB. I:57 (1774)
Period of composition: [2nd half?] 1774
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony no.58 F Major Hob. I:58 (1767)
Allegro / Andante / Menuet. Alla zoppa, e un poco allegretto – Trio / Finale. Presto
SYMPHONY NO.58 F MAJOR HOB. I:58 (1767)
Period of composition: before 15.2.1773 [End 1767]
Carlo Farina (around 1600–1639): Capriccio stravagante a 4 (from: Ander Teil neuer Paduanen, Galiarden, Couranten, … Dresden 1627)
[ohne Tempobez.] / La Lira / Il Pifferino / Lira Variata / Presto / Adagio / La Trombetta / Il Clarino / La Gallina – Il Gallo / Presto / Il Flautino pian piano / Presto / Adagio / Il Tremulo / Il Pifferino della Soldadesca / Il Tamburo / Il Gatto / Il Cane / Presto / La Chitarra Spagniola / Adagio – Sempre Più Adagio
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Symphony no.83 g Minor Hob. I:83 (1785) «La Poule»
Allegro spiritoso / Andante / Menuet. Allegretto – Trio / Finale. Vivace
SYMPHONY NO.83 G MINOR "LA POULE" (1785)
Period of composition: 1785
Line-up
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Next concerts
Vienna,
Friday, 4 October 2024, 7.30 pm
Vienna Musikverein, Brahms-Saal
Pre-concert talk: 6.30 pm, Steinerner Saal, Horst Hascheck Auditorium
- Advance ticket booking
Tickets are available at musikverein.at or +43 1 505 8190
Basel,
Friday, 11 October 2024, 7.30 pm
Haydn reading at the Heinz Holliger Auditorium, Don Bosco Basel:
6.30 pm: reading with Lorenz Langenegger
The reading is sold out.
Entry is only permitted with prior registration at info@haydn2032.com - we have a waiting list.
Concert at the Paul Sacher Saal, Don Bosco Basel:
7.30 pm: concert
Haydn soup during the interval.
The concert will be livestreamed on Youtube.
- Advance ticket booking
Tickets are available online or at Bider & Tanner, Ihr Kulturhaus in Basel, +41 (0)61 2069996 as well as by phone at kulturticket (+41 900 585 887, CHF 1.20/Min) or on site at all presale locations of kulturticket.
Subscribers of the Basel Chamber Orchestra are entitled to reduced tickets (20%). If you haven't received your promocode by a post letter of the Basel Chamber Orchestra please contact franziska.vonarb@haydn2032.com).
- Livestream
The concert will be livestreamed on the Haydn2032 YouTube channel.
Biographies
Orchestra
Il Giardino Armonico
Orchestra
Founded in 1985 and conducted by Giovanni Antonini, has been established as one of the world’s leading period instrument ensembles, bringing together musicians from Europe’s relevant music institutions. The ensemble’s repertoire mainly focuses on the 17th and 18th century. Depending on the demands of each program, the group consists of three up to thirty musicians.
Il Giardino Armonico is regularly invited to festivals all over the world performing in the most important concert halls, and has received high acclaim for both concerts and opera productions, like Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa Händel’s Agrippina, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, La Resurrezione and finally Giulio Cesare in Egitto with Cecilia Bartoli during the 2012 edition of the Salzburg Whitsun and Summer Festival.
Beside that, Il Giardino Armonico sustains an intense recording activity. After many years as an exclusive group of Teldec Classics achieving several major awards for its recordings of works by Vivaldi and the other 18th century composers, the group had an exclusive agreement with Decca/ L’Oiseau-Lyre recording Händel’s Concerti Grossi Op. VI and the cantata Il Pianto di Maria with Bernarda Fink.
The group also released on Naïve La Casa del Diavolo, Vivaldi cello Concertos with Christophe Coin, and the opera Ottone in Villa winning the Diapason d’Or in 2011. On the label Onyx Vivaldi violin Concertos with Viktoria Mullova.
In 2009 a new cooperation with Cecilia Bartoli led to the project Sacrificium (Decca), Platinum Album in France and Belgium and prized by the Grammy Award.
Again on Decca Alleluia (March 2013) and Händel in Italy (October 2015) with Julia Lezhneva, acclaimed by public and critics.
The group published Serpent & Fire with Anna Prohaska (Alpha Classics – Outhere music group, 2016) winning the ICMA “baroque vocal” in 2017.
The recording of five Mozart Violin Concertos with Isabel Faust (Harmonia Mundi, 2016) stands as the result of the prestigious cooperation with the great violinist.
Il Giardino Armonico is part of the twenty-year project Haydn2032 for which the Haydn Foundation has been created in Basel to support both the recording project of the complete Haydn Symphonies (Alpha Classic) and a series of concerts in various European cities, with thematic programs focused on this fascinating repertoire. In November 2014 the first album titled La Passione has been published and won the Echo Klassik award in 2015. Il Filosofo, issued in 2015, has been “CHOC of the year” by Classica. The third one Solo e Pensoso has been released in August 2016, and the forth Il Distratto in March 2017.
The last volumes of the Haydn2032 project, as well as Telemann (Alpha Classics, November 2016) are available as CD and LP too. Telemann won the Diapason d’Or in January 2017.
Furthermore the ensemble worked with such acclaimed soloists as Giuliano Carmignola, Sol Gabetta, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Viktoria Mullova, and Giovanni Sollima.
Conductor
Giovanni Antonini
Conductor
Born in Milan, Giovanni studied at the Civica Scuola di Musica and at the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. He is a founder member of the Baroque ensemble “Il Giardino Armonico”, which he has led since 1989. With this ensemble, he has appeared as conductor and soloist on the recorder and Baroque transverse flute in Europe, United States, Canada, South America, Australia, Japan and Malaysia. He is Artistic Director of Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Poland and Principal Guest Conductor of Mozarteum Orchester and Kammerorchester Basel.
He has performed with many prestigious artists including Cecilia Bartoli, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Giuliano Carmignola, Isabelle Faust, Sol Gabetta, Sumi Jo, Viktoria Mullova, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Emmanuel Pahud and Giovanni Sollima. Renowned for his refined and innovative interpretation of the classical and baroque repertoire, Antonini is also a regular guest with Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouworkest, Tonhalle Orchester, Mozarteum Orchester, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, London Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
His opera productions have included Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Bellini’s Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at Salzburg Festival. In 2018 he conducted Orlando at Theater an der Wien and returned to Opernhaus Zurich for Idomeneo. In the 21/22 season he will guest conduct the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Stavanger Symphony, Anima Eterna Bruges and the Symphonieorchester de Bayerischer Rundfunks. He will also direct Cavalieri’s opera Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo for Theatre an der Wien and a ballet production of Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten for Wiener Staatsballett with the Wiener Philharmoniker.
With Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni has recorded numerous CDs of instrumental works by Vivaldi, J.S. Bach (Brandenburg Concertos), Biber and Locke for Teldec. With Naïve he recorded Vivaldi’s opera Ottone in Villa, and, with Il Giardino Armonico for Decca, has recorded Alleluia with Julia Lezhneva and La morte della Ragione, collections of sixteenth and seventeenth century instrumental music. With Kammerorchester Basel he has recorded the complete Beethoven Symphonies for Sony Classical and a disc of flute concertos with Emmanuel Pahud entitled Revolution for Warner Classics. In 2013 he conducted a recording of Bellini’s Norma for Decca in collaboration with Orchestra La Scintilla.
Antonini is artistic director of the Haydn 2032 project, created to realise a vision to record and perform with Il Giardino Armonico and Kammerorchester Basel, the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn by the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The first 12 volumes have been released on the Alpha Classics label with two further volumes planned for release every year.
© Martin Parr and Werner Bischof / Magnum Photos
Biography
Photographer
Martin Parr
Photographer
Martin Parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. With over 100 books of his own published, and another 30 edited by Parr, his photographic legacy is already established.
Parr also acts as a curator and editor. He has curated two photography festivals, Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010. More recently Parr curated the Barbican exhibition, Strange and Familiar.
Parr has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and was President from 2013 - 2017. In 2013 Parr was appointed the visiting professor of photography at the University of Ulster.
Parr’s work has been collected by many of the leading museums, from the Tate Moderne, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Martin Parr established the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017. In 2019 the National Portrait Gallery in London held a major exhibition of Parr’s work titled Only Human.
Photographer
Werner Bischof
Photographer
Werner Bischof starts his career in his studio in Zurich, Switzerland, where he perfects his artistic photography in “painting with light and shadow”.
In 1945 he creates maybe the most significant photographic documentation of Europe in the aftermath of WWII.
1949 he joins Magnum Photos and travels two years in Asia: India, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Indochina he continues his humanistic photography, combining form and content.
In 1953 he works in North America to later travel south into Panama, Chile and Peru. At the age of 38 he dies, when his car runs off a cliff in the Peruvian Andes.
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«Haydn? Passt wunderbar! Rief ich. In Kürze fahre ich für ein halbes Jahr nach London. Kaum gesagt, bemerkte ich meinen Irrtum. Die CD mit dem roten Doppeldeckerbus auf dem Titel? Händel. Was sonst? Halleluja!
Aber nein, London passte durchaus, lernte ich. Nicht nur Händel, auch Haydn war in London. Na dann, Haydn in London, ich in London, viel konnte nicht mehr schief gehen. Noch ein Irrtum. Beim Schreiben, das sollte ich inzwischen wissen, auch wenn ich gelegentlich noch als junger Kollege bezeichnet werde, kann immer alles schief gehen.»
Excerpt of the text by Lorenz Langenegger
The text "Haydn? Halleluja!" by Lorenz Langenegger will be published in the vinyl edition vol. 21.
Lorenz Langenegger will read his text at the Haydn-Lounge at the Heinz Holliger Auditorium on 11 October 2024 um 6.30 pm (sold out – please contact us for the waiting list).
Biografie
Writer
Lorenz Langenegger
Writer
Lorenz Langenegger, born in 1980, lives in Vienna and Zurich. He graduated in theatre and political science in Bern, where he wrote his first stage plays. Since 2004, he has been commissioned to write various works, which have premiered in Zurich, Berlin and Mannheim. His play Rakows Dom won the Schaubühne Berlin play competition in 2006. In summer 2007 the author had an International Residency at the Royal Court Theatre in London. He was invited to the Heidelberg Play Market with Wo wir sind and Nord West 59, which premiered at the Regensburg Theatre in December 2017. In September 2024, the play 2048 premiered at the Oldenburg State Theatre. His first novel Hier im Regen was published in 2009, winning the Franz Tumler Prize. He recently published his fifth novel Was man jetzt noch tun kann, and the book for young adults Julian und Birke. Langenegger also writes for television, including for Tatort Zürich.