Il Pomo d'Oro (orchestra)

Last updated

Il Pomo d'Oro is a prize-winning orchestra founded in 2012 and named after the opera Il pomo d'oro by Antonio Cesti. [1] The ensemble specialises in Historically informed performance of music from the Baroque and Classical period which it performs and records led by its own lead violinists Federico Guglielmo and Zefira Valova, or by guest conductors including Maxim Emelyanychev (chief conductor since 2016), [2] Riccardo Minasi, Stefano Montanari, George Petrou, Enrico Onofri, Francesco Corti, Zefira Valova and the Stradella specialist Andrea De Carlo. [3]

Contents

Discography

The ensemble has produced the following recordings: [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Federico Maria Sardelli</span> Italian composer

Federico Maria Sardelli is an Italian conductor, historicist, composer, musicologist, comic artist, and flautist. He founded the medieval ensemble Modo Antiquo in 1984. In 1987, Modo Antiquo also became a baroque orchestra, debuting with the performance of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Ballet des Saisons in front of an audience of about five thousand.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alessandro Stradella</span> Italian composer (1643–1682)

Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period. He enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer, writing on commission, and collaborating with distinguished poets, producing over three hundred works in a variety of genres.

The year 1716 in music involved some significant events.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johann Georg Pisendel</span> German Baroque composer (1687–1755)

Johann Georg Pisendel was a German Baroque violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden as concertmaster, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe. He was the leading violinist of his time, and composers such as Tomaso Albinoni, Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi all dedicated violin compositions to him.

The Juno Award for "Classical Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1994, as recognition each year for the best vocal classical music album in Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fabio Biondi</span> Italian violinist and conductor

Fabio Biondi is an Italian violinist and conductor. He is a specialist in Baroque and early music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Max Emanuel Cenčić</span> Austrian opera singer

Max Emanuel Cenčić is a Croatian countertenor. He was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir.

The European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) is a training initiative that allows young performers of baroque music from the European Union to gain orchestral experience as part of their career development. Its purpose is to bridge the gap between music school study and a professional career. Founded in 1985 and originally based in England, the orchestra moved to Belgium and then Italy following Brexit.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joyce DiDonato</span> American mezzo-soprano

Joyce DiDonato is an American opera singer and recitalist. A coloratura mezzo-soprano, she has performed operas and concert works spanning from the 19th-century Romantic era to those by Handel and Mozart.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guido Rimonda</span> Italian violinist and conductor (born 1969)

Guido Rimonda is an Italian violinist and conductor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franco Fagioli</span> Argentine countertenor

Franco Maximiliano Fagioli is an Argentine operatic countertenor.

Collegium 1704 is a Czech early music orchestra and choir founded in 2005 by the Czech conductor, harpsichordist, and horn player Václav Luks. The Collegium Vocale 1704 is the affiliated vocal ensemble. Since 2007, the ensemble has been making regular guest appearances at festivals and concert halls all over Europe: the Salzburger Festspiele, the Berliner Philharmonie, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Theater an der Wien and Konzerthaus, the Lucerne Festival, BOZAR in Brussels, the Chopin Festival in Warsaw, Wratislavia Cantans, and the Elbphilharmonie, and it is an ensemble-in-residence at the festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht and at the Leipzig Bachfest. In 2008, Music Bridge Prague — Dresden began, bringing together the two cities’ wealth of cultural traditions. In 2012 Collegium 1704 started a concert series at the Rudolfinum in Prague. Since autumn 2015, the two cycles have been merged into a single concert season that continues to take place in parallel in Prague and Dresden. In 2019 Collegium Vocale 1704 launched a series of chamber choir concerts in Prague.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">B'Rock Orchestra</span>

B'Rock Orchestra is a Belgian Baroque orchestra. The orchestra combines works by established baroque composers like Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Friedrich Händel with the lesser-known repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries like Georg Philipp Telemann, Alessandro Scarlatti and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. In addition, the orchestra focuses on giving first performances of new music written with its historic instruments in mind. The orchestra also has a reputation for cross-genre productions like Early Music in combination with theatre, opera, visual art, dance and/or video.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jakub Józef Orliński</span> Polish operatic countertenor singer (born 1990)

Jakub Józef Orliński is a Polish operatic countertenor singer and breakdancer. He has performed leading roles with many opera companies, including Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Warsaw Grand Theatre and Oper Frankfurt.

Maxim Yuryevich Emelyanychev is a Russian conductor, pianist, harpsichordist and cornetist.

Václav Luks is a Czech harpsichordist, horn player, conductor, musicologist and pedagogue, founder and artistic director of the Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and of the vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704. He specialises in Baroque music, especially in the works of Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and others. His activities have played an important role in reviving interest in the works of Czech composers including Zelenka and Josef Mysliveček. In 2022, Luks was awarded the title of Knight of the French Ministry of Culture, Arts and Letters.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ottaviano Tenerani</span> Italian keyboard player, conductor, and musicologist

Ottaviano Tenerani is an Italian keyboard player, conductor, musicologist. He is the leader of Il Rossignolo, an ensemble on period instruments that he founded in 1998 together with the flautist Marica Testi and the recorder and oboe player Martino Noferi.

Riccardo Minasi is an Italian violinist and conductor in the field of historically informed performance.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Enrico Onofri</span> Italian violinist and conductor

Enrico Onofri is an Italian violinist and conductor specialising in Baroque music.

References

  1. "Orlando, il barocco e l'atmosfera fantastica dei poemi cavallereschi". Verona In. 6 January 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  2. "Il Pomo D'oro". Warner Classics. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  3. "2018 Orchestra of the Year Award nominee: Il Pomo d'Oro". London: Gramophone. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  4. "Il Pomo d'Oro". Discogs. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  5. "Handel: Apollo e Dafne & Armida abbandonata". Baarn: Pentatone. 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2024.