Il Pomo d'Oro is a prize-winning orchestra founded in 2012 and named after the opera ''
Il pomo d'oro
''Il pomo d'oro'' (''The Golden Apple'') is an opera in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). It was first performed before the imperial court in a specially constructed ope ...
'' by
Antonio Cesti
Pietro Marc'Antonio Cesti () (baptism 5 August 162314 October 1669), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer ( tenor), and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".
Biogr ...
. 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 Maxim Yuryevich Emelyanychev (Максим Юрьевич Емельянычев; born 28 August 1988, Dzerzhinsk) is a Russian conductor, pianist, harpsichordist and cornetist. From a musical family, Emelyanychev studied music at the Nizhny Novgor ...
(chief conductor since 2016),
:it:Riccardo Minasi, Stefano Montanari,
George Petrou
George Petrou ( el, Γιώργος Πέτρου) is a Greek conductor, pianist and stage-director.
Biography
George Petrou was born in Greece. He studied at the Athens Conservatoire, the Royal College and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He ...
,
:de:Enrico Onofri,
:nl:Francesco Corti,
Zefira Valova and the
Stradella specialist Andrea De Carlo.
Discography
The ensemble has produced the following recordings:
*2012: Concerti Per Violino V, Per Pisendel, Vivaldi
*2012: Bad Guys
*2012: Concerti Per Violino IV "L'imperatore", Vivaldi
*2013: Arias For Caffarelli
*2014: Tamerlano, Handel
*2015: Arie Napoletane
*2015: Partenope, Handel
*2015: Catone in Utica, Vinci
*2017: Carnevale 1729
*2017: Ottone, Handel
*2018: Serse, Handel
*2020: Agrippina, Handel
*2022:
Handel: Apollo e Dafne & Armida abbandonata' (
Pentatone)
References
External links
Official homepage
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Early music orchestras