Amor Sacro Amor Profano by Il Giardino d'Amore

Antonio Vivaldi

Il Giardino d'Amore

Amor Sacro Amor Profano

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Format: CD
Label: Ëvoe Music
UPC: 5905279916012
Catnr: EVOE 001
Release date: 14 August 2015
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Label
Ëvoe Music

UPC
5905279916012

Catalogue number
EVOE 001

Release date
14 August 2015

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About the album

The vocal content of the CD has been carefully selected and arranged. It conveys a kaleidoscope of feelings and states of love, so different for the French and the Italians. The aria from Vivaldi’s cantata Cessate omai cessate - Ah! Ch’infelice sempre depicts a betrayed love, for which there is no hope but death. Vivaldi chose a calm semiquaver for the accompanying pizzicato strings, symbolising the tears of an unhappy lo- ver. The aria from Vivaldi’s In furore Iustissimae Irae leads to a tempestuous fury, signifying God’s wrath and power, this is in contrast to the B part which depicts grace and forgiveness and comes in consolation and serenity. How willing my paternal love from Handel’s Samson speaks of a father’s love. Afterwards the CD moves smoothly on to a French chanson populaire from the 16thcentury, Une Jeune Fillette. This tells the story of a pure-hearted girl in love with a boy with whom she would like to be with all the time. The lovely melody and sweet words subtly and sensuously depict the waiting for her beloved. Next we have chanson a boire, Bachus et Amour, and chanson a danser, Celle qui fait tout mon tourment by Charpen- tier which paints a still different picture of French popular music, a feasting song and a dance song. The lyrics and the melodies are light and catchy, suggestive in their simplicity and directedness. Rameau’s Pu- isque Pluton compliments Lully’s Trop indiscret Amour from Ballet de Muses. Both speak of love transcen- ding death and heroes descending into Hell in search of their loved ones. Lully’s idea in particular, which was given the subtitle Recit d’Orfeo, is extraordinary. The solo violin represents Orpheus, who plays the lute to accompany Eurydice on their journey through Hell. The last two pieces come from two important centres of Italian music – Venice and Naples, the capital of Italian popular song. Monteverdi’s Quel sgu- ardo sdegnosetto is a light song about flirting glances, which always reach the naïve heart. Dormi o nimo from Caresana’s Christmas cantata La Veglia, is one of the most beautiful lullabies in the history of music.

Eine erlesene Auswahl von Stücken über die Liebe, die in den verschiendenen Nationen nicht verschiedener sein könnte. Mit Werken von Vivaldi, Händel, Bach, Charpentier, Rameau, Lully, Monteverdi, Stradella, Caresana und Corelli.

Artist(s)

Natalia Kawałek (vocals)

NATALIA KAWALEK - mezzosoprano An opera singer, born in 1987 in Poland. She graduated at the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (class of Professor Izabella Kłosinska) and in Rome at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia (with Rebecca Berg and Sara Mingardo) as part of the Erasmus exchange programme. Afterwards she continued studies at the University of Music in Vienna under Professor Claudia Visca. In 2012 she won 3rd price and the Audience Price at the International Baroque Opera Competition Pietro Antonio Cesti in Innsbruck (Austria). She is also the winner of 2nd price and many special awards on Internationaler Hilde Zadek Gesangswettbewerb 2013 in Vienna. From saison 2014/2015 she was a member of Junges Ensemble at Theater an der...

NATALIA KAWALEK - mezzosoprano An opera singer, born in 1987 in Poland. She graduated at the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (class of Professor Izabella Kłosinska) and in Rome at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia (with Rebecca Berg and Sara Mingardo) as part of the Erasmus exchange programme. Afterwards she continued studies at the University of Music in Vienna under Professor Claudia Visca. In 2012 she won 3rd price and the Audience Price at the International Baroque Opera Competition Pietro Antonio Cesti in Innsbruck (Austria). She is also the winner of 2nd price and many special awards on Internationaler Hilde Zadek Gesangswettbewerb 2013 in Vienna. From saison 2014/2015 she was a member of Junges Ensemble at Theater an der Wien. Her repertoire is very wide, from the music of late renaissance, through baroque operas and chamber music, to contemporary and experimental projects. Her greatest passion however is opera. The most significant recent stage appearences were Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne Festival, Carmen in Kammeroper Wien, Virtu in L'incoronazione di Poppea of C. Monteverdi in Theater an der Wien. During last couple of seasons she had chance to colaborate with prominent conductors like Alessandro de Marchi, Andreas Spering, Jean Christoph Spinosi, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Jan T. Adamus and excellent stage directors like Christoph Loy, Klaus Guth, Christiane Lutz, Thorstein Fisher, Jean Renshaw. Next seasons include engagements in Theater an der Wien and Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. Natalia is cooperating regularily with ensembles Il Giardino d’Amore, Cappella Cracoviensis and Ensemble Matheus.

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Il Giardino d'Amore

Il Giardino d’Amore was founded in 2012 in Cracow. In the years 2012 & 2013 the orchestra performed at festivals such as the Bach Festival in Vienna, Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival, Tartini Festival in Piran. In autumn 2013 the orchestra held their first tour in the USA and Canada, and performed at Festival of Early Music Celebration in New York. In 2014 Il Giardino performed in the prestigious concert hall of Mozarteum in Salzburg, as well as was invited to the festival in Oslo, Norway. During their second tour in USA they performed in Carnegie Hall New York and California, where members of Il Giardino led the master class at the Universities of Los Angeles and San Diego. Years 2013 – 2018...

In autumn 2013 the orchestra held their first tour in the USA and Canada, and performed at Festival of Early Music Celebration in New York. In 2014 Il Giardino performed in the prestigious concert hall of Mozarteum in Salzburg, as well as was invited to the festival in Oslo, Norway. During their second tour in USA they performed in Carnegie Hall New York and California, where members of Il Giardino led the master class at the Universities of Los Angeles and San Diego.
Years 2013 – 2018 are dedicated to French music. This fascination started by the recording Cantates & Petits Macarons, the CD with french cantatas in 2013, than presentation of the opera ballet by J.Ph.Rameau – Les Indes Galantes in 2015 and 2016, and it will continue this season by performance of another Rameau’s opera - ballet – Naïs.
The aim in 2016 was focused in large projects with polish sacred music. 2016 tour in US was dedicated entirely to the promotion, and popularization of this fascinating music. The fruit of this dissertation is the CD ” The Heart of Europe”.

The orchestra has recorded several CD’s for Ëvoe Records label.

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Stefan Plewniak (conductor)

Stefan Plewniak - violinist and conductor, received his training in is hometown, Krakow, where he studied with prof. B. Śliwicka-Wysocka at the Krakow Academy of Music. He continued his studies with prof. I.Strauss in Prague Music Academy, prof. R. Szreder at Maastricht Conservatory and prof F. Fernandez at Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris. His interest in baroque music was sparked during collaboration with Les Gôuts Reunis ensemble in the Netherlands. Subsequently, he has performed with many significant ensembles and orchestras, such as Kammeroper Köln, Warsaw Polish Radio Orchestra and Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. He collaborated with many renowned ensembles as a concertmaster in den Hague, Paris and Salzburg. He also cooperated with leading orchestras in Europe such as...

His interest in baroque music was sparked during collaboration with Les Gôuts Reunis ensemble in the Netherlands. Subsequently, he has performed with many significant ensembles and orchestras, such as Kammeroper Köln, Warsaw Polish Radio Orchestra and Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra.

He collaborated with many renowned ensembles as a concertmaster in den Hague, Paris and Salzburg. He also cooperated with leading orchestras in Europe such as William Christie's Les Arts Florissants in Paris and Jordi Savall's Le Concert des Nations in Barcelona.

He is the founder of Il Giardino d'Amore orchestra in Vienna/ Cracow and Capella dell’ Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. In 2016 he founded new symphony orchestra The FeelHarmony.

He appeared as a soloist and leader at many important festivals in Europe, USA and China, among others Oude Muzik Festival Utrecht, Bach Festival Vienna, Tartini Festival Pirano, Styriarte Festival Graz, Early Music Celebration New York. He made his debut as a soloist in Mozarteum Salzburg and New York Carnegie Hall in 2014. Stefan Plewniak regularly presents masterclasses in Oslo, Norway as well as at the University of South California in L.A. and San Diego.

He is specializing in the opera and ballet repertoire.

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Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernández (violin)

Dawid Biwo (vocals)

Marzena Biwo (violin)

Alina Sieprawska (violin)

Katarzyna Kalinowska (viola)

Katarzyna Cichon (cello)

Maria Misiarz (cello)

Paulina Tkaczyk (harpsichord)

Maria Guzowska (guitar)

Anna Swoboda (banjo)

Composer(s)

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some...

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.
Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children where Vivaldi (who had been ordained as a Catholic priest) was employed from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some success with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna, hoping for preferment. However, the Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and Vivaldi himself died less than a year later in poverty.

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