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    Lorenzo Regazzo, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - George Frideric Handel: Arie per basso (2009)

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    Lorenzo Regazzo, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - George Frideric Handel: Arie per basso (2009)

    Lorenzo Regazzo, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - George Frideric Handel: Arie per basso (2009)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 301 Mb | Total time: 58'03 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve | OP 30472 | Recorded: 2008

    Two musical titans in the classical world, award-winning Italian bass Lorenzo Regazzo and Italian conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini, are brought together once again to record the greatest operatic arias by George Frederic Handel. Handel, one of the most celebrated operatic composers of the eighteenth century, always remained out of step with the preferences of his era - notably his attachment to the 'natural' male voice in a time when the high voices of women or castratos triumphed everywhere.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per archi II (2014)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per archi II (2014)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per archi II (2014)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 286 Mb | Total time: 51:14 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30554 | Recorded: 2013

    The concertos for strings are a very special genre in Vivaldi's output. Contrary to the concertos for solo instruments, those offer a real balance and amazing range of colours between all the intruments concerned. Following a very successful first volume, released in 2004, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano offer a new milestone recording in Vivaldi's instrumental music, full of colours and refinement.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Luca Marenzio: Madrigali a quattro voci, Libro Primo 1585 (1994)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Luca Marenzio: Madrigali a quattro voci, Libro Primo 1585 (1994)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Luca Marenzio: Madrigali a quattro voci, Libro Primo 1585 (1994)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 62:07 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Opus 111 ‎| OPS 2-117 | Recorded: 1994

    Italian Renaissance composer Luca Marenzio was internationally recognized as the leading composer of madrigals at the height of his career, in the last two decades of the sixteenth century. He was so popular (and the sales of his music so lucrative) that within years of his death, both Flemish and German publishers had issued volumes of his complete five and six part madrigals, an honor almost unheard of at the time. Marenzio's madrigals, while anticipating the songlike lyricism of monody that would come to dominate vocal music of the early Baroque, made full use of the textural and expressive qualities of Renaissance polyphony.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Banchieri: Il Festino del Giovedì Grasso; Striggio: La Caccia (2000)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Banchieri: Il Festino del Giovedì Grasso; Striggio: La Caccia (2000)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Adriano Banchieri: Il Festino del Giovedì Grasso; Alessandro Striggio: La Caccia (2000)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 278 Mb | Total time: 60:23 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Opus 111 | OP30137 | Recorded: 1995

    This talented Italian vocal ensemble, under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini, has already proved its excellence in previous discs of Monteverdi madrigals. In this engaging new release the artists turn their attention to ‘madrigal comedies’ by 16th-century Alessandro Striggio and his younger contemporary, Adriano Banchieri. These are highly entertaining, often witty pieces, with a strong onomatopoeic element and a profusion of vividly depictive images running through them.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Armida al campo d'Egitto (2010)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Armida al campo d'Egitto (2010)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Armida al campo d'Egitto (2010)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 693 Mb | Total time: 62:09+67:01+41:12 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30492 | Recorded: 2009

    Armida is the tenth opera in the Vivaldi Edition; it's the second one to be recorded by Rinaldo Alessandrini (their first was L’Olimpiade). It's a great success. Marking the end of Vivaldi's first period in Venice, it lacks music for Act II. Alessandrini has reconstructed it here using carefully chosen existing music of the composer with the assistance of the musicologist Frédéric Delaméa.

    Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cain overo Il Primo Omicidio (1992)

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    Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cain overo Il Primo Omicidio (1992)

    Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Europa Galante - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cain overo Il Primo Omicidio (1992)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 747 Mb | Total time: 66:07+71:50 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Opus 111 | OPS 30-75/76 | Recorded: 1992

    La célèbre épopée biblique relatant le meurtre d’Abel par Caïn est connue de tous, mais la mise en scène qu’Alessandro Scarlatti lui a dédiée l’est beaucoup moins. Thème récurant pour les oratorios italiens au XVIIe siècle, le sujet est traité ici à la manière d’une histoire policière. Avec un effectif musical réduit, il nous transporte dans un univers baroque étourdissant. Les accents lyriques sont d’une expressivité rare tandis que l’orchestre, faisant preuve de beaucoup de psychologie, exulte. Par bonheur, la prise de son est à l’avenant. Les divers plans sonores sont respectés avec une très belle transparence et une foule de détails sur les voix et sur les instruments.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: La Senna Festeggiante (2002)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: La Senna Festeggiante (2002)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: La Senna Festeggiante (2002)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 367 Mb | Total time: 72:10 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve / Opus 111 | OP30339 | Recorded: 2001

    Three serenatas by Vivaldi survive (he is known to have composed at least eight)‚ of which La Senna festeggiante is by far the most enjoyable…One of the work’s most interesting features is Vivaldi’s deliberate use in places of elements of French style‚ for instance in the solemn ‘ouvertur’ which opens Part 2 and the courtly minuet of The Golden Age’s second aria‚ thereby adding to the richness of a work which for the most part is vintage Vivaldi at his most buoyant and irresistible.

    Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini - J.S. Bach: Variations on Variations (2017)

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    Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini - J.S. Bach: Variations on Variations (2017)

    Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini - J.S. Bach: Variations on Variations (2017)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:08:17 | 390 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Naïve | Catalog: OP 30575

    In this programme entitled Variations on Variations, Rinaldo Alessandrini, one of the today’s references on Baroque music, has chosen to adapt the Goldberg Variations and the Aria variata alla maniera italiana - initially composed for the keyboard - for small string ensemble, from duo to quartet.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: L'Olimpiade (2002)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: L'Olimpiade (2002)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: L'Olimpiade (2002)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 827 Mb | Total time: 175:19 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30316 | Recorded: 2002

    Despite the public context – the story is played out against the backdrop of the Olympic Games – this is a drama which focuses on the personal predicaments of the principal characters, each of whom faces an interesting conflict between head and heart somewhere along the line. This is more apparent from Metastasio's words than from Vivaldi's music, to be honest, but that isn't to say that the composer has been unresponsive. The most effective and intimate moments occur in the recitatives, which are fluidly conversational and full of realistic interruptions, questions and exclamations, all of which Vivaldi handles with considerable dramatic skill.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Tutti I Madrigali (2023)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Tutti I Madrigali (2023)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Tutti I Madrigali (2023)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2.9 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.6 GB
    11:45:30 | Classical | Label: naïve

    In the forty years that he has been working on Monteverdi, Rinaldo Alessandrini has revealed the beauty, poetry and genius of the music. Today, naïve publish a box set containing the entire collection of his recordings of the madrigals with Concerto Italiano: 12 hours of music on 11 CDs, including previously unreleased books I and IX. Rinaldo Alessandrini’s vast discography with his Concerto Italiano has included Monteverdi’s madrigals, presented whenever he wished, interlinked themes and personal dramaturgies. This complete, non- chronological collection, which began in 1993 with book IV, then gradually increased over the years up to books I and IX, recorded last year, as yet missing from their catalogue, has now culminated in the publication of a dense, full and well-documented box set.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale (1996)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale (1996)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale (1996)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 338 Mb | Total time: 71:21 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-156 | Recorded: 1996

    Extraordinarily, Alessandro Scarlatti (who died in 1725 and forms a strong bridge between the mature Baroque and later classical traditions, according to musicologist Edward Dent) wrote some sixty-four operas, twenty oratorios, hundreds of chamber cantatas, and a host of madrigals, masses, motets, toccatas, concertos, sonatas and symphonies. Very little of this is heard today, sadly, except in specialist circles. Perhaps one of the more popularly performed pieces is 'Abramo, il tuo sembiante' (a Christmas cantata). When Handel visited Italy between 1706 and 1710, he met Scarlatti and may even have studied with him. This performance of said cantata is well within the Italian style - clear lines and intricate ornamentation.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Settimo Libro de' Madrigali (2022)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Settimo Libro de' Madrigali (2022)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Settimo Libro de' Madrigali (2022)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 624 Mb | Total time: 132:39 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP7365 | Recorded: 2020

    Claudio Monteverdi's Seventh Book of Madrigals have been recorded well by several early music groups, but one expects superior readings from harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini and his vocal-instrumental ensemble Concerto Italiano, and indeed, one gets them here. Alessandrini's versions are on the spare side, with seven voices and an instrumental ensemble of 13 that includes three continuo instruments plus percussion, with Alessandrini's harpsichord prominent in the mix, but he has all the equipment he needs to deliver a really distinctive "concerto," as the title of the Seventh Book boldly proclaims itself. With this book, Monteverdi moved decisively away from the old polyphonic madrigal ideal and toward the text-based settings that would be the norm for vocal music over the next four centuries and counting.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria; Magnificat; Concerti (2000)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria; Magnificat; Concerti (2000)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Akademia-Ensemble Vocal Champagne & Ardenne - Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria; Magnificat; Concerti (2000)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 590 Mb | Total time: 59:49+62:45 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 1951 | Recorded: 1997

    Don't let the startling double-time opening of this Gloria put you off–listen with an open mind and you'll be surprised at how much sense it makes. Rinaldo Alessandrini's reading has many such surprises; some movements are taken very quickly, others surprisingly slowly, yet his choices seem fresh instead of perverse. The Magnificat is lesser known and thus less surprising, but it's every bit as lively. The soloists all sing nicely; the clear-voiced York and vigorous Mingardo provide imaginative ornaments. The excellent French chorus Akademia and Alessandrini's orchestra don't miss a single one of Alessandrini's beats.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Libri de’ madrigali [5CDs] (2001)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Libri de’ madrigali  [5CDs] (2001)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Libri de’ madrigali (2001)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.31 Gb | Total time: 5h 29 m | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OP 30348 | Recorded: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998

    Monteverdi was only 23 when he published his Second Book of Madrigals in 1590, but he was already a master of the form, and these contrapuntally lively pieces, with their supple and astute text setting, are crowning works of late Renaissance secular polyphony. With this release of the Second Book, Rinaldo Alessandrini moves closer to his goal of recording all of Monteverdi's eight Books of Madrigals, performed by Concerto Italiano, the ensemble he founded in 1984. The series has received much-deserved critical acclaim; three of the releases won Gramophone Awards, and this 1994 recording won a Diapason d'Or. Concerto Italiano is a group whose roster is flexible, based on the requirements of the music performed, and here seven unaccompanied singers configure themselves in a variety of combinations in the five-part madrigals.

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali (2011)

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    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano -  Claudio Monteverdi: Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali (2011)

    Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali (2011)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 290 Mb | Total time: 63:50 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naive | # OP 30423 | Recorded: 2005

    The style of Italian early music conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano might be described as both strongly expressive and highly intelligent. Consider this recording of Monteverdi's Sixth Book of Madrigals, pieces that hover between the older polyphonic madrigal tradition and the newer, essentially soloistic and dramatic language of opera. The texts of these mostly five-part pieces focus almost exclusively on extremely melancholy depictions of mourning for love lost, mostly through death – something Alessandrini in his detailed and highly informative notes attributes to the death of Monteverdi's wife and his favorite female student shortly before the music was composed. Alessandrini takes the ideal of text expression as paramount, downplaying larger formal details in favor of a sequence of extremely intense moments.