GiovanniAntonini

Press

• Haydn 2032 Vol 13 " Hornsignal"

  Recording

  Feb 2023

  • Brought exuberantly to life by Il Giardino Armonico, directed by Giovanni Antonini...There is a delight in revealing the detail and plenty of lingering over the slower beauties of the writing. Fizz and energy never far away thought and it's some of the most exhilarating Haydn around at the moment. BBC Radio 3 Record Review

    • BBC Radio 3 Record Review
    • 10 February 2023

  • Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico dispatch it [Symphony no. 48] with as much excitement as any version I’ve heard, and find in it a deal more light and shade than most other recordings...Vol 13 is another undoubted triumph.

    • Gramophone Magazine
    • 01 January 2023

• Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin

  Konzerthaus Berlin

  Dec 2021

  • Beethoven's Lautmalereien werden dabei nicht zu Effekten verkürzt. Noch das Gewitter bleibt eingebettet in einen organischen, stetigen Puls, ein mal expressives, mal fein nuanciertes Landschaftspanorama. Schönheit und Schock, die Macht der Liebe, die Zerstörungsgefahr... ein utopischer Abend

    • Die Tages Spiegel
    • 19 December 2021

• Haydn 2032 Vol 10

  Recording

  Jul 2021

  • The music is delightful anyway, particularly in Symphony No 6, “Le Matin”. But everything gains an extra kick and lilt in these airily magnificent performances from Antonini’s ensemble Il Giardino Armonico. The playing is weighted to perfection: light and rhythmically bouncy without being dainty or manic.

    • The Times
    • 28 July 2021

• Chicago Symphony

  Chicago Symphony Center

  Jun 2018

  • Uncommonly sensitive to fine degrees of dynamics throughout the concert, Antonini crouched low on the podium to draw exquisite pianissimos from the orchestra in the quieter moments of the Drum Roll... Haydn’s music took on renewed character and charm in this intimate perspective. I, for one, may never want to go back to hearing big-orchestra Haydn again.

    • Chicago Tribune
    • 08 June 2018

• Haydn 2032 Vol 5

  Recording

  Jan 2018

  • The suave No. 81 comes off particularly well, while No. 80, one of Haydn's most eccentric creations, is played straight and comes of all the more witty for it.... This is another winning entry into Antonini's Haydn discography... in which direction will this compelling and tantalising slow-burn series turn next?

    • Gramophone Magazine
    • 08 January 2018

• Il Giardino Armonico

  Barbican Centre London

  May 2014

  • From many points of view, Antonini and his historically informed ensemble matched her approach to a nicety; their playing offered character without excess, and their tone substance without heaviness. All their accompaniments were vividly sketched, though they really came into their own in two concerti grossi by Handel and another by his London-based Italian colleague, Francesco Geminiani.

    • The Guardian
    • 08 May 2014

• Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig

  Gewandhaus Leipzig

  Mar 2011

  • The title La Passione [Symphony in F minor /Haydn] was taken literally by the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini: Various forms of passion were certainly experienced by the audience….In the presto one last gasp: Giovanni Antonini energetically built up the storm. He coaxed the orchestra’s threatening swelling tremolos, then slowed down again in the melancholy triumphs in the fight against the awesome drama.

    • Leipziger Volkszeitung
    • 21 March 2011