Latest Release
- 21 JUN 2024
- 38 Songs
- Bach: Brandenburg Concertos · 2005
- Stradella: Mottetti · 2024
- Vivaldi: Arie per basso · 2006
- Vivaldi: Gloria · 2009
- Haendel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno · 2001
- Vivaldi: Stabat Mater · 1999
- Vivaldi: Concerti per archi II · 2013
- Chaconne · 2010
- Chaconne · 2010
- Mozart Overtures · 2009
Essential Albums
- If you thought Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos demand Teutonic seriousness, think again. Rinaldo Alessandrini, directing his virtuoso Concerto Italiano from the harpsichord, brings a Mediterranean warmth and verve that reveals how much Bach drew from his Italian contemporaries. Solo lines emerge with clarity but also with terrific energy, and the ensemble passages fuse animation and order with winning results. In these six concertos—no two scored the same—Bach threw down the gauntlet and, in doing so, invented a musical language. There are dozens of fine recordings, but Concerto Italiano’s, from 2005, is one of the finest.
Artist Playlists
- This artful conductor and harpsichordist brings out the soul of Italian Baroque.
About Rinaldo Alessandrini
Conductor and harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini is an innovative interpreter of Italian Baroque opera and instrumental music. As the director of his own ensemble, Concerto Italiano, he has brought dramatic, opera-influenced readings to a variety of Baroque works from Italy and beyond. Alessandrini also played the organ, and his first recording, a performance of Girolamo Frescobaldi's Fiori Musicali collection, was on that instrument. In 1992, he issued a collection of Alessandro Scarlatti's keyboard music. He has recorded prolifically, issuing as many as four albums a year in the 2010s. In 2022, he and Concerto Italiano released a new recording of Vivaldi's popular 12 Concertos, Op. 3, titled L'estro armonico. By that time, Alessandrini's recording catalog included well over 125 items.
- BORN
- 1960年1月25日
- GENRE
- Classical