Il Giardino d’Amore / Stefan Plewniak / Natalia Kawalek / Dawid Biwo AMOR SACRO AMOR PROFANO

 Love is crazy one may say, love you can not define,  love is all you need. Amor, Amore, l’Amour,  Je t’aime … so many ways to express something sweet inside of us, in some quiet secret and sacred part of our souls. Amor Sacro Amor Profano gently and softly leads us to this world where love write her own scenarios.

Amor Sacro Amor Profano features music of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Lully, Charpentier, Stradella, Caresana, Corelii. 

Il Giardino d’Amore / Natalia Kawalek CANTATES ET PETITS MACARONS

On a quiet summer afternoon, with the living room door half open, through the doorway comes a smell of perfume, muffled laughter from the courtesans and the sweet sounds of the violin virtuoso…

Delicious music of the XVIII century Paris salon.

This CD contains masterpieces of the best masters of french baroque secular cantata which were : Montéclair, Rameau, Clerambault, and fantastic instrumental chamber music of the genious Couperin, and Marais. This combination of composers, and choice of the repertoir gives very colourful, divers, and exciting program. With the works of Clérambault, Montéclair and Rameau, the French Cantata reached a kind of apogee, pushing the limits of its theatricality and becoming increasingly more operatic. On one hand, these composers borrow the varied pace, exuberance and quick modulations from the Italian style, on the other hand, they expand the instrumental parts, using trumpets, horns, violins and even timpani, which far from being a mere accompaniment to the story. Marin Marais was one of the first to introduce trio compositions, typically used by the Italians, into France. His famous Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris (Bells of St. Genevieve in the Hills of Paris) is an amazing example of virtuosity on the viola da gamba. François Couperin, less engaged with cantata writing than his contemporaries is one of the most important chamber music composers of the French Baroque, in which he reaches an artistic peak with Le Gouts Reunis, and L’Apothéose de Corelli.

Il Giardino d’Amore THE HEART OF EUROPE

The Heart of Europe – Corona Regni Poloniae – 1500 – 1750 is a new CD lanced by Ëvoe Records.
Main goal of this album is to present rare music of Central Europe during 250 years of late Renaissance and Baroque era, especially focusing on the cultural exchange between Ottoman Turkey and Occidental Europe. In this context Poland (in latin Corona Regni Poloniae) is presented as The Heart of Europe being culturally linked with those different worlds. The topic of the CD concentrates around the date of the biggest battles between christianity and islam which took place in Vienna in 1683.

Fascinating personality and key person in this story is Wojciech Bobowski – (in Turkey called Ali Ufki ) who represented both cultures and connected their music. The other interesting composers appearing in this album are Johannes de Lublin, Gorczycki, Zielenski, Mielczewski, Klosseman. You can listen also to great Battalia by Biber, and Turcaria by Fux in new exciting arrangements with much bigger instrumentation. The salt and pepper of this CD is of course instruments typical for ottoman culture such as ney or santur.

The CD is recorded by Il Giardino d’Amore orchestra and choir in cooperation with Tempus and Trombastic Ensembles.
The diversity of genres and the compositions of the CD is a great advantage blending smoothly sacred and secular music with popular and court dances.

We would like to encourage our listeners to explore more about this fascinating music and history. We hope that curiosity will bring new discoveries and new presentations soon. The CD is an incredible adventure for the musicologists, music lovers, and great fun for the whole families with young members, especially enjoying the dynamic rhythms, and original colorful melodies of past times and kingdoms.

Jakub Jozef Orlinski / Natalia Kawalek HÄNDEL Enemies in Love

Enemies in Love is a dazzling disc of Handel Arias and Duets performed by soprano Natalia Kawalek, counter tenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski and Il Giardino d’Amore conducted by Stefan Plewniak.

The album explores themes of love, jealousy, war, intrigue and religious conflict. The singers delight the listener with their virtuosic display, as one would expect from a recording from Evoe, a label specialising in vocal and orchestral Baroque music.

Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski has gained a reputation as a singer of striking vocal beauty and daring stage craft. Trained at The Juilliard School, he is an avid interpreter of the roles created by Handel. Polish mezzo-soprano, Natalia Kawalek, studied at the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In the summer of 2016 she made her debut in Glyndenbourne singing Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro of Mozart. In 2016 she sang also in Verdi’s Macbeth, together with Placido Domingo in Theater an der Wien. In 2017 she sang in Teatr Wielki in Warsaw being part of the Korngold Die Tote Stadt opera production staged by M.Trelinski.