Each volume of the Haydn2032 series includes music by other composers contemporary with Haydn, such as Gluck, W. F. Bach, Mozart, Cimarosa, and Kraus.
Album & Artwork
The Haydn2032 project collaborates with the famous Magnum agency, founded by photographers like Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, to create the photographic universe for the series, with a Magnum photographer associated with each recording.
Performer Biography
Giovanni Antonini, the conductor, is a founder member of the Baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, which he has led since 1989.
Instruments
The Kammerorchester Basel performs on period instruments, with specific details provided for many of the individual instruments used in the recording.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Giovanni Antonini, the artistic director of the Haydn2032 project, views Haydn's music as 'a kaleidoscope of human emotions'.
Interpretation
The Haydn2032 project does not present Haydn's symphonies in chronological order, but rather in thematically based programs like 'La passione' or 'Il filosofo'.
Album & Artwork
This album is part of the Haydn2032 project, an ambitious initiative to record all 107 of Joseph Haydn's symphonies by the 300th anniversary of his birth in 2032.
