Press Release
Haydn2032 – "Showing the world of Haydn and its connections" (Giovanni Antonini) Basel, 16 May 2014 Under the musical direction of Giovanni Antonini, the privately-funded music project "Haydn2032" was created to realize a vision: to record and perform – in a unique cycle featuring concerts across Europe – all of Joseph Haydn's 107 symphonies by 2032, the 300th anniversary of the composer's birth. This project's kick-off event, "Radiale Nacht Haydn2032," will take place on Saturday, the 21st of June 2014. Haydn2032 This long-term venture is the brainchild of Swiss Cultural Manager Christoph Müller who, inspired by Giovanni Antonini's conducting of Haydn's works in January 2013, developed the idea of this visionary music project. Haydn2032 strives not only to present a historically accurate and dramaturgically informed reference recording, but to also examine Haydn's symphonic legacy – while questioning its validity for both the present and future – through a thematic and multi-disciplinary approach. Müller found a counterpart in Giovanni Antonini, who assumes the position of Artistic Director for this long-term project and who will work in close collaboration with the kammerorchesterbasel and the Italian chamber orchestra Il Giardino Armonico. A proven specialist of this period, the Italian conductor approaches his repertoire through intensive and meticulous historical research. In May 2014, the NZZ regarded his recording of the Beethoven cycle with the kammerorchesterbasel a "piece of the future." Antonini's gift for bringing out the finest details of musical and harmonic structures, as well as for making the most complex phrases both vivid and tangible for the listener, promises a new and authentic way of experiencing Haydn's music. This project will feature the first complete recording of the symphonies, performed on historical instruments and with the original instrumentation.
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