Riccardo Minasi
Violinist and conductor Riccardo Minasi has been a key figure in Italy's historical performance scene, having founded the influential groups Il Pomo d'Oro and Musica Antiqua Roma. He has also conducted modern-instrument groups and is an important educator.
Minasi was born in Rome in 1978. At first, he studied modern violin with Paolo Centurioni and Alfredo Fiorentini, then switched to the Baroque instrument, for which his teachers were Enrico Parizzi and Luigi Mangiocavallo. Minasi made his name in the early music field as a violinist, performing with an impressive variety of ensembles in both Europe and North America. The former group includes Le Concert de Nations (directed by Jordi Savall), the Accademia Bizantina, and Al Ayre Español. Minasi's connections with North American artists and groups developed from invitations extended by conductor Kent Nagano. Minasi made his recording debut on the Arts Music label in 2008 with a recording of Biber's Rosenkranz sonatas. His collaborators include such diverse performers as the early music group Ensemble 415, singer Joyce DiDonato (on the album Stella di Napoli), and the sister duo pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque.
After he founded the chamber ensemble Musica Antiqua Roma in 2007, Minasi became more interested in conducting. That group specialized in Roman music of the 17th and 18th centuries, but gradually, Minasi's musical interests broadened. He is familiar with and has written academically about music from the Renaissance to the present day. His broad knowledge led to his appointment as a historical consultant to Nagano's Montreal Symphony in 2009. He issued a critical edition of Bellini's opera Norma and has performed in several innovative productions of that opera. Minasi co-founded the early music group Il Pomo d'Oro in 2012 and remained its director until 2015, assuming the direction of the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, Austria, in 2017. Minasi has also served as artist in residence with Ensemble Resonanz at the Elbphilharmonie Hall in Hamburg, Germany, an arrangement that continued into the mid-2020s.
Minasi has a large discography as both violinist and conductor. He has recorded difficult virtuoso Baroque violin repertory by the likes of Veracini for the Naïve label and has conducted several operas on Erato. In 2020, he led Ensemble Resonanz in a recording of Mozart's Symphonies Nos. 39, 40, and 41 for the Harmonia Mundi label. In 2021, he led Ensemble Resonanz in a recording of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, and the so-called Piano Concerto No. 6 in D major, Op. 61a, a transcription of the composer's violin concerto. Minasi returned in 2023 with a recording of Mozart's Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 ("Linz"), and Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504. By then, his recording catalog comprised more than 30 items.
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Discography
19 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 36 "Linz" & 38 "Prague"
Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
Symphonies - Released by harmonia mundi on 27 Oct 2023
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter"
Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 28 Feb 2020
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C.P.E. Bach : Cello Concertos
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Riccardo Minasi, Ensemble Resonanz
Cello Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 13 Apr 2018
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Haydn : Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze
Riccardo Minasi, Ensemble Rezonanz
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 22 Mar 2019
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Vivaldi : Concerti per due violini e archi (vol. I)
Dmitry Sinkovsky, Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo D'oro
Classical - Released by naïve classique on 18 Nov 2013
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Rossell: Salve Regina
Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi, Giulia Semenzato, Lucile Richardot
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 19 Mar 2021
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Antonio Vivaldi : Concerto per violino IV "L'Imperatore"
Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo D'oro
Concertos - Released by naïve classique on 17 Apr 2012
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C. P. E. Bach: 6 Hamburger Sinfonien, Wq. 182
Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
Classical - Released by Es-Dur on 17 Oct 2014
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C. P. E. Bach: 4 Sinfonien Wq 183, 6 Sonaten Wq 184
Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
Classical - Released by Es-Dur on 14 Oct 2016
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Strauss: Metamorphosen & Wind Sonatina No. 1
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Riccardo Minasi
Classical - Released by Berlin Classics on 3 Nov 2023
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4, Op. 58 & "6", Op. 61a
Gianluca Cascioli, Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 5 Nov 2021
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Bad Guys
Xavier Sabata, Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo D'oro
Classical - Released by Aparté on 21 Jan 2013
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Mozart: Violin Sonatas, K. 306, 376 & 454
Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 18 Mar 2016
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Haydn: 4 Piano Trios
Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 22 Apr 2016
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The four seasons
Orchestra La Scintilla, Riccardo Minasi
Classical - Released by Philharmonia Records - Opernhaus Zürich on 15 May 2020
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Georg Friedrich Händel : Sonates pour violon
Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 1 Jan 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Veracini: Sonatas For Violin And Basso Continuo
Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 26 Mar 2010
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Veracini: Sonatas For Violin And Basso Continuo
Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 26 Mar 2010
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Rietz & Gross: Cello Concertos & Fantasy
Klaus-Dieter Brandt, L'arpa Festante, Riccardo Minasi
Classical - Released by Ars Produktion on 1 Jul 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo