Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 & 36, Violin Concerto No. 3 Il Pomo d' Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev, Aylen Pritchin

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385:
• 1 Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385: I. Allegro con spirito 06:03
• 2 Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385: II. Andante 09:14
• 3 Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385: III. Menuetto 03:28
• 4 Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385: IV. Finale. Presto 03:55
• Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216:
• 5 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216: I. Allegro 09:12
• 6 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216: II. Adagio 06:54
• 7 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216: III. Rondeau. Allegro 05:56
• Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425:
• 8 Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425: I. Adagio – Allegro spiritoso 11:38
• 9 Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425: II. Andante 08:55
• 10 Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425: III. Menuetto. Trio 03:46
• 11 Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425: IV. Presto 10:31
• Total Runtime 01:19:32

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Für den dritten Band ihrer Mozart-Gesamtserie haben Maxim Emelyanychev und Il Pomo d'Oro die Haffner- und die Linzer Sinfonie aus den Jahren 1782 und 1783 zusammengestellt. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte sich Mozart bereits als Komponist von Opern und dramatischen Werken etabliert, und er konzipierte diese Sinfonien mit der Denkweise eines Mannes der Bühne - kühn!

Der charismatische Dirigent und Pianist Maxim Emelyanychev fängt ihren dramatischen Schwung und ihre Frische mit der Verve und Raffinesse ein, für die er bekannt ist. Unter seiner Leitung liefern die Musiker von Il Pomo d'Oro eine intensive, authentische und prägnante Interpretation.

Der Geiger Aylen Pritchin, ein langjähriger Mitarbeiter Emelyanychevs und des Orchesters, rundet mit seiner elektrisierenden Interpretation des dritten Violinkonzerts ein gewagtes Album ab.

Aylen Pritchin, Violine
Il Pomo d'Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev, Dirigent

Il Pomo d'Oro
In the year 2022, the ensemble il Pomo d’Oro is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Founded in 2012 by Giulio D’Alessio and Gesine Lübben, it soon established itself as an ensemble of outstanding quality in the field of historically informed performance. Il Pomo d’Oro looks back on 10 years of intense concert activity worldwide and an impressive list of 35 recordings, many of them award winning.

The ensemble is particularly known and sought after as a partner of singers, be it for solo recitals or entire operas in performance and recording. In 2022, il Pomo d’Oro is touring the new programs of Joyce DiDonato, EDEN, and Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Anima Eterna, led by the main conductors of the ensemble, Maxim Emelyanychev (chief conductor), and Francesco Corti (chief guest conductor). The last ‘opera’ production with a stellar cast was Handel’s oratorio Theodora in November 2021, presenting for the first time the new vocal ensemble il Pomo d’Oro. Further operas and oratorios, mainly by Handel, are scheduled for the coming seasons.

In the field of instrumental music, the ensemble focuses on projects with Maxim Emelyanychev conducting and Francesco Corti as soloist and conductor (Bach harpsichord concertos). Zefira Valova, the concert master of il Pomo d’Oro, also appears as a violin soloist in a new album with works by Benda, Graun a.o., soon to be released.

il Pomo d’Oro is official ambassador of El Sistema Greece, a humanitarian project to provide free musical education to children in Greek refugee camps.

The ‘il Pomo d’Oro Academy‘ was launched online during the first wave of the Covid 19 pandemic, offering free music lessons to music students worldwide.

The Academy is now collaborating with El Sistema Venezuela, offering online masterclasses in Baroque music interpretation in cooperation with the “Inocente Carreño Itinerant Conservatory” in Caracas to the Baroque music ensembles of the El Sistema movement.

In its future residence in Monte San Savino, Italy, the il Pomo d’Oro Academy will host instrumental and vocal masterclasses, workshops and musical education for children.

The name of the ensemble il Pomo d’Oro refers to Antonio Cesti’s opera from the year 1666. Composed to the wedding celebrations of Emperor Leopold I and Margarita Teresa of Spain, Il Pomo d’Oro was probably one of the largest, most expensive and most spectacular opera productions in the still young history of the genre. 24 different stage designs, a horse-ballet of 300 horses, a fireworks display of 73,000 rockets, numerous ‚special effects’ – superlatives, which should make the Emperor’s court the highlight of cultural splendor in Europe.

Maxim Emelyanychev
Chief conductor, Il Pomo d’Oro and principal conductor, Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Shortly after his conducting debut at the age of 12, Maxim Emelyanychev was invited to conduct quite a few of the international baroque and symphonic orchestras in Russia. Then, in 2013, he became Principal Conductor of Il Pomo d’Oro and Principal Conductor of the Nizhny-Novgorod Soloists Chamber Orchestra.

In 2014, he made remarquable debut in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Sevilla Teatro de la Maestranza. These critically acclaimed performances were swiftly followed by a series of symphonic guest engagements all over Europe.

Highlights of the 2016/17 season featured a major international tour with Il Pomo d’Oro and Joyce DiDonato, his debut at the Opernhaus Zürich in Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail, and his debut at the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, which has led to three programmes a year.

In addition to his fourth visit to both the Toulouse National and the Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla, Maxim made in 2017/18 his debut with the following orchestras: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, National de Lyon, Sinfonica di Milano LaVerdi, National de Belgique, National de Bordeaux and Saint-Petersburg Symphony.

An invitation to conduct the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Schubert Symphony no.9 on a last-minute replacement led the enthused musicians to appoint him their new Principal Conductor, effective from the autumn of 2019. And on the very first days of his mandate as Principal Conductor, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra extended his contract until 2025.

The 2018/19 season included his debut with the Antwerpen Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Royal Philharmonic and Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic orchestras. Maxim also joined Il Pomo d’Oro for a three weeks tour of Asia and the Middle East with Joyce DiDonato.

He conducted the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at two of the major international opera institutions: the Glyndebourne Festival (Handel Rinaldo, with Jakub Orlinski in the title role) and the Royal Opera House (Handel Agrippina, with Joyce DiDonato in the title role). He returned to the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Other engagements included the Berliner Konzerhausorchester, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Real Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria and the Seattle Symphony.

Maxim’s 2020/21 engagements included the Geneva Grand Theatre in Mozart’s Clemenza di Tito and the Toulouse Théâtre du Capitole in Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro. Debuts with the Orchestre de Paris, the Atlanta Symphony, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Belgian National Orchestra and the Luxembourg Philharmonic. His concerts with the Müchner Philharmoniker and the Swedish Radio Symphony have been postponed to 2022 due to Covid-19.

In August 2021 Maxim and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra were invited to the BBC Proms and to the Edinburgh International Festival, to which they return in 2022.

The highlights of his 2021/22 season see also his debut with some of the most prestigious international orchestras: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Toronto Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. They include returns to the Antwerp Symphony, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and a European tour with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, followed by appearances to the Radio-France Montpellier Festival and the Edinburgh International Festival. A tour with il pomo d’oro presented Handel’s oratorio Theodora with Lisette Oropesa in the title role.

In 2022/23 Maxim will tour the US with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and will make his debut with the New Japan Philharmonic, the Osaka Kansai Philharmonic, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and will return to the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and to the Royal Opera House in Mozart Magic Flute.

With il pomo d’oro Maxim will perform the new program of Joyce DiDonato, Eden, in Europe and the US. An instrumental program with il pomo d’oro is dedicated to Mozart symphonies.

Maxim was awarded in 2013 the Golden Mask for his participation in quality of harpsichordist to the stage production of Nozze di Figaro of the Perm Opera Theatre conducted by Teodor Currentzis (Sony Classical).

He was a recipient of the Young Talent Award 2019 in the Music Section of the Critics’ Circle.

The same year he was awarded an international Opera Award in the New Comer category.

Maxim has recorded quite a few CDs for Warner Classics/Erato at the head of Il Pomo d’Oro, among which Haydn symphonies and concertos an album with Haydn symphonies and concertos with Ricardo Minasi and In War and Peace, Harmony through music with Joyce DiDonato, CD which won the Gramophone Award 2017. For Warner Classics he has also recorded two albums with Il pomo d’oro and counter-tenor Jakub Orlinski: Facce d’Amore and Anima Sacra, as well as Handel’s opera Agrippina, with Joyce DiDonato in the title role, which won in 2020 the Gramophone Classical music Award in the Category ‚Opera‘. Eden, the new program of Joyce DiDonato with il pomo d’oro and Maxim conducting, will be released in 2022.

In 2019 his first CD with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Schubert Symphony no.9 – the very symphony of his appointment as their Principal Conductor – was released on Linn Records and was awarded 5 ***** by The Guardian, The Times and The Scotsman. The label Aparté Music released in 2018 Maxim’s CD with Beethoven Symphony No. 3 and Brahms Haydn Variations with the Nizhny-Novgorod Soloists Chamber Orchestra. The same year was released Maxim’s first solo album of Mozart Sonatas on fortepiano which won a Choc de Classica 2018 and the ICMA 2019.

In 2021 Aparté Music released Emelyanychev’s CD of the Brahms Sonatas for piano and violin with violinist Aylen Pritchin.

Aylen Pritchin
is one of the most sought-after and versatile artists today. He performs repertoire spanning from early music to contemporary, playing on period and modern instruments.

Pritchin received numerous awards, including First Grand prize at the Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris (2014). Concerto highlights in the 23/24 season include several debuts: Orchestre de Chambre de Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Saint-Saëns 3) and WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln (Beethoven) with Maxim Emelyanychev, Camerata Nordica in a playing and leading programme across Sweden (Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Desyatnikov, Beethoven), Sinfonia Varsovia (Mendelssohn) with Barbara Dragan in the frame of “Ma Région Virtuose” Festival in Nantes. Other collaborations include his returns to Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestra (Mozart 3) with Maxim Emelyanychev and Taiwan Philharmonic Orchestra with Jun Märkl featuring Korngold violin concerto for two concerts in Taipei and Kaohsiung.

A celebrated chamber musician, Pritchin’s invitations include his debut at the Just Klassik Festival in Troyes, the Landshut Kammermusik Festival in Germany and a return at the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria among others. In March 2024, Aylen and Maxim Emelyanychev are invited in duo at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Jeanine Roze Production). The programme includes works of Brahms, Dvořák and Grieg.

Highlights of recent seasons include successful collaborations : Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their Principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev (Brahms), Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (Prokofiev 2; Bruch 1), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Saint-Saëns 3 ; Prokofiev 2), Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (Brahms), Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria (Schnittke 2), Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra (Stravinsky), Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra (Williams; Stravinsky), Hong Kong Sinfonietta (Mendelssohn). Other collaborations include Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestra under Maxim Emelyanychev’s direction at the Würzburg MozartFest (Mozart 3) and the Gunma Symphony Orchestra in Japan (Mozart 5).

In addition, Pritchin has collaborated with conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Christian Arming, Yip Wing-sie, Shao-Chia Lü, Michiyoshi Inoue, Cornelius Meister, Yuri Simonov, Dorian Wilson, Mikhail Gerts, Shlomo Mintz, Olivier Ochanine and Valentin Uryupin.

In recital, he has appeared at renowned festivals and venues: Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Stockholm Musikaliska, Salzburg Mozarteum, Tchaikovsky Conservatory Hall in Moscow and the Champs-Elysées Theatre in Paris. Pritchin also performs at the Hong Kong Concert Hall with pianist Rémi Geniet and at the Toppan Hall in Tokyo with pianist Tomoki Kitamura. In Europe, his recent invitations include the Dubrovnik Summer Festival with Maxim Emelyanychev, the SoNoRo Festival in Romania, La Folle Journée de Nantes with Lukas Geniusas and the Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, collaborating with such artists as Lawrence Power, Nicolas Altstaedt and Olli Mustonen.

In 2019, the label Ad Vitam Records released a violin solo cd with some of the most significant works of the 20th century, including the first edition ever of Tema con 8 variazioni by Jean Françaix.

In 2021, Aylen and Maxim Emelyanychev's album dedicated to the Brahms Violin Sonatas and recorded on period instruments has been released on Aparté. The album has received glowing reviews.

In 2022 his CD “Debussy-Hahn-Stravinsky” with Lukas Geniusas has been released on Mirare Productions and awarded the “Preis der Deutschen Schallplaten Kritik” in Germany and a “Choc de Classica” in France. This release has been named among the "5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now" by the New York Times.

Aylen is currently teaching at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.

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