For several years now, the award-winning break-dancer and hip-hop fan Jakub Józef Orlínski has been celebrated on the international scene as one of the most sought-after counter tenors of our time. Whether in the New York Carnegie Hall or the London Wigmore Hall: the emotional beauty of his soaring mezzo tone has assured the young Pole a firm place on the famous concert platforms of the world. His interpretation of the aria “Vedro con mio diletto” from Vivaldi’s Griselda in Aix-en-Provence got more than eleven million hits on YouTube – a record for a counter tenor! But he’s not concerned so much with fast fame. He is far more interested in scouting around for unknown and almost forgotten pieces. The musicologist Yannis François has delved into the seventeenth century for this programme and made a multifaceted selection expressing the unique musical art of this era. Works by well-known composers including Claudio Monteverdi, Giulio Caccini and Girolamo Frescobaldi are juxtaposed to arias that have never sounded for almost four hundred years. Composers like the dazzling Giovanni Cesare Netti, the virtuosic adventuress Barbara Strozzi and the Polish universal artist Adam Jarzębskis will be heard here for the first time!

With Beyond, Jakub Józef Orliński and Il Pomo d’Oro transport us to musical domains that reach beyond time – emotional sounds that are not only beyond, but also belong to every epoch: “alive, vibrant, touching, engaging and entertaining”.