Claudio Astronio
Versatile Italian musician Claudio Astronio is active as both a conductor and a keyboardist (on both harpsichord and organ) in music from Baroque to pop and jazz. He leads his own historical performance ensemble, Harmonices Mundi, which has recorded both Italian and German Baroque music.
Astronio has a large recording catalog. He made his debut in 1998 as a harpsichordist, releasing several volumes of music by Antonio de Cabezón under the title Obras de Música on the Stradivarius label. He remained on that label through the 2000s decade, issuing the album Handel: Vò far guerra in 2001. In 2004, Astronio recorded his first album as a conductor, leading a performance of Alessandro Stradella's oratorio San Giovanni Batista. That album featured Harmonices Mundi, with which he has continued to record. Astronio made his debut as an opera conductor in 2007, leading a performance of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Ravenna Festival. That year, he also conducted a staged version of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, in a collaboration with the London Dance Company and choreographer Ismael Ivo.
Astronio formed the Theresia youth Baroque orchestra in 2012 (often styled THERESIA). He moved to the Brilliant Classics label that year, leading Harmonices Mundi on a recording of Stradella's opera La Susanna. That year, he and Harmonices Mundi backed sopranos Gemma Bertagnolli and Susanne Ryden on the recital Handel: Italian Duets. The same forces issued a complete recording of the cantatas of Nicolaus Bruhns on Brilliant in 2016. Astronio's collaborators in concert are a distinguished group, including soprano Emma Kirkby, harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, and string player Yuri Bashmet. He has also led ensembles on jazz and pop recordings, including the album Coplas a lo divino featuring vocalists Maria Pia de Vito, Michel Godard, and Paolo Fresu. Astronio returned on recordings in 2024, conducting Theresia on an album of overtures by composer Joseph Martin Kraus. Astronio teaches harpsichord and chamber music at the Antonio Scontrino Conservatory of Music in Trapani, Italy.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Kraus: Overtures
Claudio Astronio, Theresia Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by CPO on 6 nov. 2023
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C.P.E Bach: Six Concertos Wq43 Transcribed for 2 Harpsichords
Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi
Klassiek - Released by Brilliant Classics on 29 nov. 2023
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Telemann: Essercizi musici
Collegium Pro Musica, Federico Guglielmo, Claudio Astronio, Stefano Bagliano
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 20 nov. 2008
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W.F. Bach: Complete Harpsichord Music
Klassiek - Released by Brilliant Classics on 28 jul. 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Highlands & Sea
Laura Catrani, Claudio Astronio
Opera - Released by Ulysses Arts on 11 okt. 2019
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
"Obras de Música" (Intégrale de l'œuvre de Antonio de Cabezón) (Antonio de Cabezón)
Klassiek - Released by Brilliant Classics on 1 okt. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Stradella: San Giovanni Crisostomo
Claudio Astronio & Harmonices Mundi
Klassiek - Released by Brilliant Classics on 1 jan. 2004
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Cabezon: Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Vol. 4
Claudio Astronio, Harmonices Mundi String Ensemble, La Moranda
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 24 aug. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
La Susanna (Alessandro Stradella)
Klassiek - Released by Brilliant Classics on 11 mei 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: The Leipzig Chorales
Concentus Vocalis Griesensis, Claudio Astronio, P. Urban Stillhardt
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 1 jan. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Dritter teil der Klavierübung
Anonyme, Nikolaus Decius, Martin Luther, Vienna Concentus Vocalis, Claudio Astronio
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 2 okt. 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Stradella: San Giovanni Battista
Harmonices Mundi, Roberto Balconi, Sylvia Pozzer, Claudio Astronio, Makoto Sakurada, Fulvio Bettini
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 10 nov. 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: Mottetti sacri
Harmonices Mundi String Ensemble, Susanne Ryden, Massimiliano Mauthe von Degerfeld, Claudio Astronio, Gemma Bertagnolli, Bozen Baroque Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 23 mei 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Vo' far guerra
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 1 jan. 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cabezon: Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Vol. 1
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 11 aug. 1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Leopold Mozart: Der Mensch, ein Gottesmörder
Harmonices Mundi, Bozen Baroque Ensemble, Claudio Astronio, Susanne Ryden, Makoto Sakurada, Joanna Klisowska
Opera - Released by Amadeus Best on 28 mei 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Albinoni: Poiché al vago seren
Patrizia Vaccari, Harmonices Mundi, Claudio Astronio
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 13 jul. 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cabezon: Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Vol. 1
La Moranda, Claudio Astronio, Harmonices Mundi
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 16 apr. 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cabezon: Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Vol. 1
La Moranda, Claudio Astronio, Harmonices Mundi
Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 21 sep. 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Órganos históricos en Aragón Vol. 8 - Tentación - Música napolitana para órgano en tiempos del Virreynato - Iglesia parroquial de Muel (Zaragoza)
Klassiek - Released by Institución Fernando el Católico on 12 jan. 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo