Fundado por Fabio Bonizzoni en 1995, La Risonanza comenzó como grupo vocal e instrumental antes de convertirse en una de las orquestas de cámara barrocas más importantes de la actualidad. El conjunto comenzó a grabar para Glossa en 2002.
La música de estilo italiano compuesta a finales del siglo XVII y durante toda la primera mitad del XVIII es el repertorio fundamental del grupo. Buen ejemplo de ello es la serie de siete volúmenes con todas las cantatas seculares italianas con acompañamiento instrumental compuestas por Georg Friedrich Haendel, proyecto actualmente en curso y que concluirá en 2009. Para este y otros proyectos, La Risonanza cuenta con muchos de los mejores vocalistas, incluyendo nombres como Roberta Invernizzi, Nuria Rial o Emanuela Galli. El primer volumen de la colección, “La cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili”, recibió el prestigioso Stanley Sadie Handel Recording Prize en 2007.
Los importantes festivales europeos en los que La Risonanza ha actuado en los últimos años incluyen el Festival Oudemuziek de Utrecht, la Quincena Musical de San Sebastián, la Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, el Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music de Londres, el Festival Internacional de Santander, Rheingau Musik Festival, MDR Musiksommer, Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio y Società del Quartetto, ambos en Milán, el teatro San Carlo de Nápoles, el Arsenal de Metz, la Accademia di Santa Cecilia de Roma o el Styriarte Festival de Graz.
Desde 2007, La Risonanza es la orquesta residente del departamento francés de Aisne.
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Aparte de dirigir La Risonanza, el clavecinista y organista milanés Fabio Bonizzoni (que también enseña en el Conservatorio de Trapani, el Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana de Lugano y el Real Conservatorio de La Haya) también nos ha presentado en disco su visión de las sonatas para tecla de Domenico Scarlatti o su fascinante lectura de las Variaciones Goldberg de Bach, aparte de otros registros.
Sus estudios en Italia tuvieron continuación con Ton Koopman, siendo su único estudiante que se graduó a la vez en clave y órgano barroco. Sus actividades concertísticas como solista lo llevan a salas de toda Europa, entre las que destacan el Auditorio Parco della Musica de Roma, el Teatro Real de Madrid o la Salle Gaveau de París, aparte de participar con frecuencia en los festivales de música antigua más destacados.
Fabio Bonizzoni returns with a further Glossa release dedicated to the chamber vocal output of Georg Friedrich Handel: here, a second volume of duets (and trios), which features the vocal talents of Roberta Invernizzi, Silvia Frigato, Thomas Bauer and Krystian Adam. [read more...]
The collective artistic endeavours of Glossa have recently been recognized with an award of Label of the Year for 2014 by a Europe-wide panel of classical music media organizations – print and online magazines, as well as radio broadcasters – who form the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) jury. This is to be presented at the Award Ceremony and Gala Concert in the Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw in April 2014. The Glossa adventure began back in 1992, led by two pioneering Spanish instrumentalists – brothers José Miguel Moreno and Emilio Moreno – who set about creating a treasure trove of recorded excellence, notably in the ever-developing field of “early music”. To this day, the label remains focused on its artists, supporting their musical journeys and inclinations, with the artistic direction entrusted to Carlos Céster. With a small team around him Céster operates from San Lorenzo de El Escorial, surrounded by the abundant natural riches of the mountains around Madrid and with an austere Monasterio in sight to ever encourage him in the rigour of his work. [read more...]
Having entranced audiences across Europe with their performances of the music which Georg Frideric Handel wrote during his time in Italy – mainly in Rome – between 1706-9, and having also delighted record buyers with the seven-volume series of “Le Cantate Italiane di Handel”, released on Glossa, Fabio Bonizzoni and his singers and musicians of La Risonanza have now gone on to impress the jury of the 2011 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. On October 6, at a ceremony held in The Dorchester hotel in London, the British magazine bestowed upon the Italian musicians a prestigious Gramophone Award in the Baroque Vocal category, for the final volume in the Handel series, Apollo e Dafne (a recording which contains two further cantatas, Agrippina condotta a morire and Cuopre talvolta il cielo as well as the title work). The singers on this disc were soprano Roberta Invernizzi and the two basses Thomas E. Bauer and Furio Zanasi. [read more...]
Fabio Bonizzoni’s attention on record to the music of Handel - which has, thus far, yielded seven discs devoted to the early Italian-texted cantatas - has just now had the good fortune to receive this year’s Stanley Sadie Handel Recording Prize for Apollo e Dafne, the final release in the present series for Glossa. This is the third time that Bonizzoni and his period-instrument ensemble La Risonanza have won this prestigious prize for their series of “Le Cantate Italiane di Handel” (previous winners were the first release, Le Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili and the fifth, Clori, Tirsi e Fileno); three other recordings have also featured as runners-up. [read more...]
It is not only discerning music lovers around the globe who are giving a warm welcome to the recordings which are being published on Glossa; critical approval in the specialist media has been joining in as well. One example of the latter is the newly-instigated International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) which, for its inaugural 2011 edition, has chosen no less than nine of Glossa’s recent releases in its initial nominations. [read more...]