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Travel to the great courts of 17th-century Italy for this concert of early Baroque music. The ‘heavenly’ (Gramophone) ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro and countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński perform songs, arias and instrumental numbers from their recent album Beyond.

Songs include arias by the ‘father of opera’ Claudio Monteverdi and his pupil Francesco Cavalli. Tender love songs by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Francesco Cavalli and Barbara Strozzi also feature. Discover lesser-known vocal and instrumental gems too, including three varied opera arias by the Neapolitan composer Giovanni Cesare Netti.

Il Pomo d’Oro’s instrumentalists will also get the chance to show off their skills in elegant pieces by Biagio Marini, Johann Caspar Kerll, Carlo Pallavicino and the leading Polish Baroque composer Adam Jarzębski.

Presented by Edinburgh International Festival

"One of the most brilliant ensembles on the early music stage today."

(BBC Music Magazine)

"[Jakub Józef Orliński is] a wonderful artist and a genuine star."

(The Times)

Programme

Jakub Józef Orliński Countertenor

Monteverdi ‘E pur io torno qui’ from L’incoronazione di Poppea; 'Voglio di vita uscir'

Marini ‘Passacalio’ from Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale Op 22

Caccini ‘Amarilli, mia bella’ from Le nuove musiche

Frescobaldi ‘Così mi disprezzate’ from Arie musicali, Book 1

Kerll Sonata for Two Violins in F

Strozzi Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op 2: L’amante consolato

Cavalli ‘Incomprensibil nume’ from Pompeo Magno

Pallavicino Sinfonia from Demetrio

Netti ‘Misero core’, ‘Si, si, si scioglia si’, ‘Dolcissime catene’ from La Filli

Sartorio ‘La certezza di tua fede’ from Antonino e Pompeiano

Netti ‘Quanto più la donna invecchia’ and ‘Son vecchia, patienza’ from L'Adamiro

Jarzębski ‘Tamburetta’ from Canzoni e concerti

Moratelli ‘Lungi dai nostri cor’ from La Faretra smarrita

Il Pomo D'Oro & Jakub Józef Orliński