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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Kraus: Overtures
Claudio Astronio, Theresia Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da CPO il 6 nov 2023
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C.P.E Bach: Six Concertos Wq43 Transcribed for 2 Harpsichords
Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi
Classica - Pubblicato da Brilliant Classics il 29 nov 2023
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Telemann: Essercizi musici
Collegium Pro Musica, Federico Guglielmo, Claudio Astronio, Stefano Bagliano
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 20 nov 2008
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W.F. Bach: Complete Harpsichord Music
Classica - Pubblicato da Brilliant Classics il 28 lug 2017
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Highlands & Sea
Laura Catrani, Claudio Astronio
Opera - Pubblicato da Ulysses Arts il 11 ott 2019
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"Obras de Música" (Intégrale de l'œuvre de Antonio de Cabezón) (Antonio de Cabezón)
Classica - Pubblicato da Brilliant Classics il 1 ott 2012
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Stradella: San Giovanni Crisostomo
Claudio Astronio & Harmonices Mundi
Classica - Pubblicato da Brilliant Classics il 1 gen 2004
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Cabezon: Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Vol. 4
Claudio Astronio, Harmonices Mundi String Ensemble, La Moranda
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 24 ago 2005
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La Susanna (Alessandro Stradella)
Classica - Pubblicato da Brilliant Classics il 11 mag 2012
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Bach: The Leipzig Chorales
Concentus Vocalis Griesensis, Claudio Astronio, P. Urban Stillhardt
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 1 gen 2006
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Bach: Dritter teil der Klavierübung
Anonyme, Nikolaus Decius, Martin Luther, Vienna Concentus Vocalis, Claudio Astronio
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 2 ott 2000
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Stradella: San Giovanni Battista
Harmonices Mundi, Roberto Balconi, Sylvia Pozzer, Claudio Astronio, Makoto Sakurada, Fulvio Bettini
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 10 nov 2004
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Vivaldi: Mottetti sacri
Harmonices Mundi String Ensemble, Susanne Ryden, Massimiliano Mauthe von Degerfeld, Claudio Astronio, Gemma Bertagnolli, Bozen Baroque Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 23 mag 2008
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Handel: Vo' far guerra
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 1 gen 2001
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Órganos históricos en Aragón Vol. 8 - Tentación - Música napolitana para órgano en tiempos del Virreynato - Iglesia parroquial de Muel (Zaragoza)
Classica - Pubblicato da Institución Fernando el Católico il 12 gen 2024
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Cabezon: Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Vol. 1
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 11 ago 1996
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Leopold Mozart: Der Mensch, ein Gottesmörder
Harmonices Mundi, Bozen Baroque Ensemble, Claudio Astronio, Susanne Ryden, Makoto Sakurada, Joanna Klisowska
Opera - Pubblicato da Amadeus Best il 28 mag 2022
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Albinoni: Poiché al vago seren
Patrizia Vaccari, Harmonices Mundi, Claudio Astronio
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 13 lug 2002
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Cabezon: Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Vol. 1
La Moranda, Claudio Astronio, Harmonices Mundi
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 16 apr 1998
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Cabezon: Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Vol. 1
La Moranda, Claudio Astronio, Harmonices Mundi
Classica - Pubblicato da Stradivarius il 21 set 1998
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