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Il Pomo d’Oro from the Edinburgh International Music Festival and orchestral music from Italy

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including 17th-century Italian music from Il Pomo d'Oro plus Italy's RAI National Symphony Orchestra.

Today's Classical Live features specially recorded performances from this year's Edinburgh International Music Festival. Travel to the great courts of 17th-century Italy for this concert of early Baroque music with Il Pomo d’Oro and countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński. The will perform songs, arias and instrumental numbers from their recent album Beyond.

There will also be music from Italy, thanks to our partnership with the European Broadcasting Union. The RAI National Symphony Orchestra will perform music by Mendelssohn, Respighi and the centrepiece is one of Béla Bartók's most known works, Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116.

Ottorino Respighi
Concerto gregoriano
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Rai National Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

Lili Boulanger
D'un soir triste
Rai National Symphony Orchestra
Andris Poga (conductor)

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto In G Minor Rv.106
Rachel Podger (violin)
Rachel Brown (flute)
Reiko Ichise (viol de gamba)
Chad Kelly (harp)

Richard Strauss
Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major Op.18
Midori (violin)
Özgür Aydin (piano)

Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116
Rai National Symphony Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

Felix Mendelssohn
Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, op. 27, overture
Rai National Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Jordan (conductor)

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From the Edinburgh International Music Festival:

Barbara Strozzi
Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2, L'amante consolato

Francesco Cavalli
Pompeo Magno ‘Incomprensibilnume’

Carlo Pallavicino
Sinfonia from Demetrio

Giovanni Cesare
Netti ‘Misero core’; ‘Sì, sì, sì scoglia sì’; ‘Dolcissime catene’ from La Filli

Antonio Sartorio
Antonino e Pompeiano, ‘La certezza di tua fede’

Giovanni Cesare Netti
L’Adamiro, ‘Quanto più la donna invecchia’

Giovanni Cesare Netti
‘Son vecchia, patienza’

Adam Jarzebski
Canzoni e concerti, Tamburetta

Sebastiano Moratelli
La Faretra smarrita, ‘Lungi dai nostri cor’

Giovanni Antonio Boretti
Eliogabalo, Act 3: 'Chi scherza con Amor'

Il Pomo d’Ooro
Jakub Orlinski (counter tenor)

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2 hours, 58 minutes

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 Jan 2025 13:00