Mozart: The Symphonies
The Beginning & The End
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev (fortepiano/director)
Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year & Young Talent
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
Il Pomo d’Oro’s period style and approach suits a work which, like this one [Symphony No. 1], perches on the cusp between the Baroque and Classical eras...Given the underlying premise, the orchestral...
Mozart: The Symphonies
The Beginning & The End
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev (fortepiano/director)
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Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year & Young Talent
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
Il Pomo d’Oro’s period style and approach suits a work which, like this one [Symphony No. 1], perches on the cusp between the Baroque and Classical eras...Given the underlying premise, the orchestral...
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Maxim Emelyanychev’s affinity with Mozart is well known, especially when it comes to piano works: in 2018, the conductor and keyboardist treated us to a recording that not only displayed his virtuosity and musicianship, but also revealed his remarkably close understanding of the composer’s music.
Today, the symphonies are the focus of his first long term project with Il Pomo d’Oro, an ensemble he has been working with as its conductor since 2013. As he points out, this project, aiming eventually to provide a complete set of the Mozart symphonies, is unlike anything he has recorded with the ensemble hitherto on period instruments.
The approach here is original: each volume will feature an early symphony by Mozart, together with one of his great mature symphonies, which will enable the listener to perceive his many facets, revealed in the course of his development. Each volume will also include a bonus work, featuring a special guest. Inaugurating the series, Maxim Emelyanychev himself provides the hors d’œuvre with Concerto no. 23 K.488, played on a fortepiano, before going on to conduct Mozart’s Symphonies nos. 1 and 41, his first and his last, as the main course of this delightful feast.
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Maxim Emelyanychev on Mozart
9th Nov 2023
In the wake of the second instalment of his Mozart symphonies series with Il Pomo d'Oro, the Russian conductor and harpsichordist recounts how he fell under the composer's spell aged four - and was thrown in at the deep end to conduct the Overture to Le nozze di Figaro just eight years later...
Awards and reviews
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Opus Klassik Awards2023Nominated - Conductor of the Year & Young Talent
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Assorted Programs
April 2023
Il Pomo d’Oro’s period style and approach suits a work which, like this one [Symphony No. 1], perches on the cusp between the Baroque and Classical eras...Given the underlying premise, the orchestral playing here has a panache and high-speed accuracy whose impressiveness can’t be argued with.
February 2023
this inaugural volume of Emelyanychev's Mozart cycle suggests that the project will be one to watch: Pomo d'Oro are on punchy, pungent form throughout, particularly in the Scherzo of No. 1 where the whooping glissandi and cheeky sforzandi convey an irresistible sense of a preternaturally gifted child having enormous fun. Emelyanychev is also an eloquent soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 23: his ornamentation in the outer movements is quirky but never over-busy, and the dry fortepiano sound brings a spare melancholy to the central Adagio.
18th March 2023
[Emelyanychev] conducts these effervescent, brisk performances, with fleet string figures and ripe, punchy woodwind...If you prefer a more opulent sound for Mozart, this won’t be for you. I found it engrossing.
