Alpha & Giovanni Antonini embark on a new major project!
Under the musical direction of Giovanni Antonini, the music project
"Haydn2032" was created to realize a vision: to record and perform – in a
unique cycle featuring concerts across Europe – all of Joseph Haydn's
107 symphonies by 2032, the 300th anniversary of the composer's birth.
‘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.’ (Giovanni Antonini)
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