Jonas / Jonah: Giacomo Carissimi, Claudio Monteverdi, Orlando di Lasso (live) Bavarian Radio Chorus, Il Giardino Armonico & Giovanni Antonini

• Giacomo Carissimi (1605 - 1674):
• 1 Carissimi: Carissimi: Symphonia (Jonas) (live) 00:39
• 2 Carissimi: Carissimi: Cum repleta esset Ninive iniquitate (Jonas) (live) 00:33
• 3 Carissimi: Carissimi: Surge, surge, Jona (Jonas) (live) 00:28
• 4 Carissimi: Carissimi: Audivit Jonas vocem Domini (Jonas) (live) 00:32
• 5 Carissimi: Carissimi: Et cum processisset in mare (Jonas) (live) 00:20
• 6 Carissimi: Carissimi: Et proeliabantur venti (Jonas) (live) 01:47
• 7 Carissimi: Carissimi: Dii magni! Dii fortes! (Jonas) (live) 01:20
• 8 Carissimi: Carissimi: Jonas autem in interioribus navis (Jonas) (live) 00:33
• 9 Carissimi: Carissimi: Quid tu sopore deprimeris? (Jonas) (live) 00:23
• 10 Carissimi: Carissimi: Venite, venite (Jonas) (live) 00:24
• 11 Carissimi: Carissimi: Miserunt ergo sortem (Jonas) (live) 00:23
• 12 Carissimi: Carissimi: Indica nobis (Jonas) (live) 00:21
• 13 Carissimi: Carissimi: Hebraeus ego sum (Jonas) (live) 00:24
• 14 Carissimi: Carissimi: Quid faciemus tibi (Jonas) (live) 00:15
• 15 Carissimi: Carissimi: Tollite me et mittite in mare (Jonas) (live) 00:36
• 16 Carissimi: Carissimi: Tulerunt nautae Jonam (Jonas) (live) 00:21
• 17 Carissimi: Carissimi: Et praeparavit Dominus cetum grandem (Jonas) (live) 00:24
• 18 Carissimi: Carissimi: Justus es, Domine (Jonas) (live) 04:48
• 19 Carissimi: Carissimi: Et imperavit Dominus pisci (Jonas) (live) 00:19
• 20 Carissimi: Carissimi: Et crediderunt Ninivitae (Jonas) (live) 00:28
• 21 Carissimi: Carissimi: Peccavimus, Domine (Jonas) (live) 01:50
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643):
• 22 Monteverdi: Monteverdi: Lasciatemi morire (Lamento d’Arianna) (live) 01:31
• 23 Monteverdi: Monteverdi: O Teseo, o Teseo mio! (Lamento d’Arianna) (live) 04:35
• 24 Monteverdi: Monteverdi: Dove, dov’è la fede (Lamento d’Arianna) (live) 02:14
• 25 Monteverdi: Monteverdi: Ahi, ch’ei non pur risponde! (Lamento d’Arianna) (live) 03:21
• Orlando di Lasso (1532 - 1594):
• 26 Lasso: Lassus: Il magnanimo Pietro (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 01:52
• 27 Lasso: Lassus: Ma gli archi (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 02:09
• 28 Lasso: Lassus: Tre volte haveva (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 02:16
• 29 Lasso: Lassus: Così talhor (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 02:24
• 30 Lasso: Lassus: E non fu il pianto suo (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 02:30
• 31 Lasso: Lassus: Quel volto (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 02:41
• 32 Lasso: Lassus: Veduto il miser (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 03:10
• 33 Lasso: Lassus: Vattene vita, va (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 02:07
• 34 Lasso: Lassus: Non trovava mia fé (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 02:25
• 35 Lasso: Lassus: Negando il mio Signor (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 02:37
• 36 Lasso: Lassus: Vide homo (Lagrime di San Pietro) (live) 04:28
• 37 Lasso: Lassus: Prologus (Prophetiae Sibyllarum) (live) 01:09
• 38 Lasso: Lassus: Sibylla Persica (Prophetiae Sibyllarum) (live) 02:45
• 39 Lasso: Lassus: Sibylla Cimmeria (Prophetiae Sibyllarum) (live) 02:14
• 40 Lasso: Lassus: Sibylla Cumana (Prophetiae Sibyllarum) (live) 02:29
• Total Runtime 01:06:05

Info for Jonas / Jonah: Giacomo Carissimi, Claudio Monteverdi, Orlando di Lasso (live)

Oratorios by Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674) are considered the first highlights of a genre that was still young at the time, in which piety, theatre and singing were combined to form a new, dramatic form. Among the mostly Old Testament stories to which Carissimi's oratorios refer, the vivid story of Jonah stands out in particular. On his divine mission at sea, the biblical hero is caught in a storm and swallowed by a whale. Carissimi shaped the material into a fast-paced plot with emotionally charged solo singing in the lively recitative style of opera and a multitude of choruses, including a dramatic double chorus depicting the storm.

Who better to interpret Carissimi's expressive music than Giovanni Antonini, who is considered a master of pointed interpretation in the original sound scene. The renowned original sound ensemble Il Giardino Armonico appears with an instrumental ensemble specially tailored to the Bavarian Radio Choir and the tonal characteristics of the oratorio. Its artistic director, Giovanni Antonini, has been giving critically acclaimed concerts with the Bavarian Radio Choir for many years, performing works from the early Baroque to the Viennese Classical period, and has also found the perfect sound for Carissimi's music.

With choral music by Claudio Monteverdi and Orlando di Lasso, the CD programme traces the development of dramatic singing at the transition from the motet art of the late Renaissance to the emotionally charged interpretation of texts in the early Baroque period. The famous Lamento d'Arianna is the only surviving piece from the lost Ariadne opera by Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), who reworked this expressive lament into a no less expressive madrigal in 1610. Excerpts from the two legendary and mysterious cycles Prophetiae Sibyllarum and Lagrime di San Pietro by the Wittelsbach court composer Orlando di Lasso (1532–1594) conclude the album and allow us to share in masterpieces of the motet style, to which the Bavarian Radio Choir regularly devotes itself in historically informed singing.

Bavarian Radio Choir
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, conductor

The Bavarian Radio Chorus enjoys the highest international reputation on account of its uniquely homogeneous sound as well as its stylistic variety in every area of the choral repertory from the medieval motet to contemporary music and from oratorios to operas.

Mariss Jansons was the principal conductor of the Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio from 2003 until his death in 2019. His successor, Simon Rattle, took over in the autumn of 2023. Howard Arman was appointed the Chorus’s artistic director in 2016 and was succeeded by Peter Dijkstra in the autumn of 2022. The Chorus regularly gives world premieres both as part of the series ‘musica viva‘ and at its own subscription concerts. Guest appearances have taken the Chorus to Asia and to the Lucerne, Baden-Baden and Salzburg Festivals. Among the leading European orchestras that value the Chorus’s work are not only the Berlin Philharmonic and the Dresden Staatskapelle but also period ensembles such as Il Giardino Armonico and the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin, while the conductors with whom the Chorus has performed include Herbert Blomstedt, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Giovanni Antonini and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

The Bavarian Radio Chorus has received numerous awards for its recordings, including several ECHO and OPUS Klassik awards. In 2017, the Chorus’s DVD of Bach’s St John Passion conducted by Peter Dijkstra was included in the Quarterly Critics’ Choice of the German Record Critics. In 2021 the Choir received an International Classical Music Award, the Croatian Porin Music Prize and a Diapason d’Or for its recording of Igor Kuljerić’s Croatian Glagolitic Requiem. Other recordings that have garnered a Diapason d’Or include Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, Enno Poppe’s Fett — Ich kann mich an nichts erinnern, Valentin Silvestrov’s Requiem for Larissa and Caplet’s Le miroir de Jésus.

Il Giardino Armonico
Founded in 1985 and led by co-founder and conductor Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico has been established as one of the world’s leading period instrument ensembles, with the enemble primarily focusing on delivering pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Il Giardino Armonico are regularly invited to festivals all over the world performing in the most important concert halls and receive high praise for both their concerts and opera productions, such as Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa, Händel’s Agrippina, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, La Resurrezione and Giulio Cesare in Egitto with Cecilia Bartoli.

As well as their international success in live performances, Il Giovanni Armonico has also achieved great success in their recordings, with their two albums with Cecilia Bartoli, The Vivaldi Album and Sacrificum, both winning the ​‘Best Classical Vocal Performance’ Grammy Awards. The ensemble have also won the International Classical Music Award ​‘Baroque Vocal’ award for Serpent & Fire, with Anna Prohaska and a the Recording of the Year Gramaphone award for the Mozart Violin Concertos Nos 1 – 5 with Isabella Faust, with Gramaphone declaring that ​“you may find yourself hard-pressed to better this thought-provoking and eminently enjoyable” album.

Il Giardino Armonico work with many other acclaimed soloists such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Viktoria Mullova, Christophe Coin, Giuliano Carmignola, Sol Gabetta, Katia and Marielle Labèque and Giovanni Sollima.

Currently in the midst of a twenty-year long project, Haydn2032, with Kammerorchester Basel, the ensemble aims to both record and perform all of Joseph Haydn’s symphonies by 2032; marking the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Giovanni Antonini
Born in Milan, Giovanni Antonini studied at the Civica Scuola di Musica and the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. He is a founding 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, performing across Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, Australia, Japan, and Malaysia. He also serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Kammerorchester Basel.

Antonini has collaborated with numerous renowned 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. Recognized for his refined and innovative interpretations of the classical and Baroque repertoire, he is a frequent guest conductor with esteemed orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouworkest, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, London Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

His opera productions include notable performances such as Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Bellini’s Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at the Salzburg Festival. In 2018, he conducted Orlando at the Theater an der Wien and returned to the Opernhaus Zürich for Idomeneo. In 2019, he led Giulio Cesare at La Scala, where he returned in 2021 for Così fan tutte. That same year, he revisited the Theater an der Wien for Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo. Antonini will once again conduct at La Scala in the 2024-25 season for Robert Carsen’s production of L’Orontea. Throughout the season, he will also return to the Berliner Philharmoniker, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, and Bamberger Symphoniker.

With Il Giardino Armonico, Antonini has produced numerous acclaimed recordings, including instrumental works by Vivaldi, J.S. Bach (Brandenburg Concertos), Biber, and Locke for Teldec. For Naïve, he recorded Vivaldi’s opera Ottone in Villa, while his collaborations with Decca feature two volumes with Julia Lezhneva. His releases with Alpha Classics (Outhere Music Group), such as La morte della Ragione, showcase his interest in Renaissance music through collections of 16th- and 17th-century instrumental works. With the Kammerorchester Basel, he recorded the complete Beethoven Symphonies for Sony Classical and Revolution, a disc of flute concertos with Emmanuel Pahud, for Warner Classics.

Antonini is the Artistic Director of the Haydn2032 project, an ambitious initiative aimed at recording and performing the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn with Il Giardino Armonico and the Kammerorchester Basel by the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth. To date, the first 15 volumes of this monumental undertaking have been released on the Alpha Classics label.

Booklet for Jonas / Jonah: Giacomo Carissimi, Claudio Monteverdi, Orlando di Lasso (live)