Haydn 2032, Vol. 8: La Roxolana Orchestral & Concertos Alpha

Haydn 2032, Vol. 8: La Roxolana

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AJ 0682

Haydn 2032, Vol. 8: La Roxolana

Label Catalogue Number:
Alpha 682

Running Time: 76:40

Release Date: December 2019

Genre:
Orchestral & Concertos

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For its eighth volume, Haydn2032 invites us on a musical journey that takes the Balkan route. Of all the ‘Viennese Classical School’, Joseph Haydn is certainly the composer closest to folk music, first because he spent his early years in the countryside and also because, unlike his colleagues who worked in the urban centres of the Habsburg monarchy, Haydn was in contact with Croats, Roma and Hungarians throughout his life. These influences were omnipresent in his music, to the delight of Prince Nikolaus I Esterházy and his guests, but by some accounts were not to the taste of many music theorists in Germany. Haydn gave his Symphony no.63 in C major the title of ‘La Roxolana’, from the famous sixteenth-century sultana who was the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent after having been his slave. As usual, Giovanni Antonini, who is reunited here with Il Giardino Armonico, juxtaposes Haydn’s music with that of another composer. The natural choice here was Béla Bartók, who is represented by his Romanian Folk Dances, composed in 1917.

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"... This is the best yet of Antonini's Hayden 2032, may it continue to improve."

James H North - Fanfare - September/October 2020

"... Such unexpected pairings are one reason this ambitious series works so well, another being the sparkling performances" ****

Michael Beek - BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes section) - June 2020

***** Coup de Cœur

Philippe Venturini - Classica magazine (France) - April 2020

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