Artist: Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Album: La morte della ragione
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 176,4 kHz
Duration: 01:13:05
Total Tracks: 27
Total Size: 2,43 GB

Tracklist:

1. Giovanni Antonini – Preludio a flauto solo (00:22)
2. Il Giardino Armonico – La morte della Ragione (Pavana) (03:53)
3. Il Giardino Armonico – Gagliarda (01:01)
4. Il Giardino Armonico – ln Nomine Crye (01:50)
5. Il Giardino Armonico – De tous biens plaine (02:57)
6. Il Giardino Armonico – De tous biens plaine (01:23)
7. Il Giardino Armonico – De tous bien plaine I (01:16)
8. Il Giardino Armonico – De tous bien plaine II (a) (01:06)
9. Il Giardino Armonico – De tous bien plaine lll (01:41)
10. Il Giardino Armonico – De tous bien plaine II (b) (01:08)
11. Il Giardino Armonico – Puzzle Canon (01:53)
12. Il Giardino Armonico – Nymphes des bois (La déploration de la mort de Johannes Ockeghem) (04:07)
13. Il Giardino Armonico – La Battaglia (Pavana) (02:04)
14. Il Giardino Armonico – Upon la mi re (06:37)
15. Il Giardino Armonico – Schiarazula Marazula, Ungarescha & Saltarello (02:27)
16. Il Giardino Armonico – Sonata XIII a otto voci (02:58)
17. Il Giardino Armonico – Seconda Stravaganza (03:02)
18. Il Giardino Armonico – La rose (Chanson) (02:37)
19. Il Giardino Armonico – Sonata decimaquarta a 4 (06:33)
20. Il Giardino Armonico – Dormendo un giorno (Capriccio) (03:46)
21. Il Giardino Armonico – La Napolitana (Sinfonia) (03:01)
22. Il Giardino Armonico – 4 Vocum (01:41)
23. Il Giardino Armonico – Canzon Francese del Principe (04:00)
24. Il Giardino Armonico – Tarantella (02:21)
25. Il Giardino Armonico – Sonata VII Stravagante sull’Ave Maris Stella (03:07)
26. Il Giardino Armonico – Fantasia & Echo (02:04)
27. Il Giardino Armonico – Galliard Battaglia (03:57)

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‘The senses reign, and Reason now is dead’ (Petrarch). Giovanni Antonini, flautist and founder of the legendary Italian ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, enjoys musical voyages, the discursiveness of music. He begins with an anonymous 16th century pavane, La Morte della Ragione (“The Death of Reason”), which he believes refers to In Praise of Folly, in which its author Erasmus distinguishes between two forms of madness: ‘a sweet illusion of the spirit’, and a negative form, ‘one that the vengeful Furies conjure up from hell…’.

This succession of ‘musical pictures’ leads us to the threshold of the baroque era, starting out with the Puzzle Canon by John Dunstable (1390- ca.1453), whose manuscript is an enigma, via the ‘bizarre’ style of Alexander Agricola (1446- ca.1506) and his obsessive, ostinato rhythm – almost an anticipation of minimalist music… to the improvisatory freedom of the Galliard Battaglia de Scheidt (1587-1654), a battle piece involving a great many diminutions or ‘divisions’, a common technique of improvisation in the Renaissance…

This grand instrumental musical fresco of time and space is a kind of self-portrait of Giovanni Antonini and his longstanding musical colleagues. To accompany this recording, a richly-illustrated booklet presents a free-ranging iconographical tour combining pictures and contemporary photos.