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Sara Mingardo - Contralto: Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Handel (2004)

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Sara Mingardo - Contralto: Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Handel (2004)

Sara Mingardo - Contralto: Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Handel (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 65:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OP 30373 | Recorded: 1997-2002

Italian singer Sara Mingardo is considered among the more important contraltos of her generation. Her repertory is broad, encompassing works by composers from Monteverdi to Britten, though she has scored some of her greatest successes in operas and sacred music of the Baroque.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Musica Sacra (1996)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Musica Sacra (1996)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Claudio Monteverdi: Musica Sacra (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 75:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-150 | Recorded: 1996

A glorious collection of Monteverdi's church music performed expertly by the Concerto Italiano under Rinaldo Alessandrini. Starting of with a number of larger scale psalm settings concluded by a magnificat the focus subsequently moves to smaller scale settings written for avariety of occasions. The diction is very good and the music making always sensitive to the moods and the meaning of the words.

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, Norwegian National Opera Orchestra - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overtures (2009)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Norwegian National Opera Orchestra - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overtures (2009)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Norwegian National Opera Orchestra - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overtures (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 66:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30479 | Recorded: 2008

Naïve continues its collaboration with renowned conductor, Rinaldo Alessandrini, which sees him lead the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra in an exciting release featuring the overtures from Mozart’s greatest operas. This is in fact Alessandrini’s first recording with an orchestra playing on modern instruments and resulted from Alessandrini’s position as Principal Guest conductor of the Norwegian National Opera that he’s held since 2005. He chose this repertoire as during his years in this position, it was the sublime music of Mozart that the Orchestra responded to best.

Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Maurizio Naddeo - Antonio Vivaldi: Sonate di Dresda (2011)

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Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Maurizio Naddeo - Antonio Vivaldi: Sonate di Dresda (2011)

Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Maurizio Naddeo - Antonio Vivaldi: Sonate di Dresda (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 55:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 30154 | Recorded: 1995

Nel vastissimo catalogo delle opere di Antonio Vivaldi (circa 1.000 numeri considerando le appendici), la musica da camera rappresenta una parte non considerevole e, probabilmente, una delle meno note rispetto alla frequentatissima produzione concertistica e sacra, a cui si è agggiunta, negli ultimi anni, quella operistica. Per quest'ultima si pensi, ad esempio, alle recenti produzioni dell'etichetta "Naive" o alle arie d'opera riscoperte e magistralmente eseguite in forma di concerto da Cecilia Bartoli.

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 - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libri primo e nono (2023)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libri primo e nono (2023)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libri primo e nono (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:19:02 | 182 / 352 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: naïve

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 was born in Rome on January 25, 1960. He was relatively late in beginning his musical studies, taking up the piano at age 14. Four years later, he discovered the harpsichord and traveled to the Netherlands for lessons with Ton Koopman at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He was soon giving concerts on the harpsichord. Alessandrini founded Concerto Italiano in 1984. He also played the organ, and his first recording, a performance of Girolamo Frescobaldi's Fiori Musicali collection, was on that instrument.

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 - Girolamo Frescobaldi: Arie Musicali (1994)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Girolamo Frescobaldi: Arie Musicali (1994)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Girolamo Frescobaldi: Arie Musicali (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 518 Mb | Total time: 53:12+46:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-105/106 | Recorded: 1993

Girolamo Frescobaldi brought his two volumes of Arie Musicali to publication in Florence in 1630 and distanced himself from Caccini’s purely narrative madrigals by so doing. Frescobaldi brought together secular sonnets, sacred madrigals, recitatives, arias and ensembles in every possible style; it is this immense variety above all else that makes a recording of the complete Arie Musicali so exciting and challenging.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2009)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2009)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2011)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 7.57 Gb (DVD9) | 116 min
Classical | Opus Arte | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Italiano

Monteverdi's seminal first opera tells the dramatic story from Ovid's Metamorphoses of the descent of Orfeo (Georg Nigl) into the underworld to recover his beloved wife Euridice (Roberta Invernizzi), who has died from a snake bite. In a new production for La Scala, based on a painting by Titian and directed by Robert Wilson, the opera receives a powerful and inspiring performance from a fine cast, the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala and Concerto Italiano under the much-admired Italian early music specialist, Rinaldo Alessandrini. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound.

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, Opera Royal de Wallonie - Galuppi: L’Inimico delle Donne (2011)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Opera Royal de Wallonie - Galuppi: L’Inimico delle Donne (2011)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Opera Royal de Wallonie - Galuppi: L’Inimico delle Donne (2011)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.59 Gb (DVD9) | 115 min
Classical | Dynamic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol

"L’Inimico delle Donne" which means someone who doesn’t like women, is an opera written by Galuppi in 1771. He was very well-known at this time but when he died, suddenly his works disappeared from the stages. Among them ”L’Inimico delle Donne” disappeared so well that nobody knew it existed. Hence it has never been played since its first venue in Venice in 1771. Some years ago its manuscript was found in Lisbon and Royal Opéra de Wallonie decided to recreate and to stage it.

Rinaldo Alessandrini - Louis Couperin: Suites (2019)

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Rinaldo Alessandrini - Louis Couperin: Suites (2019)

Rinaldo Alessandrini - Louis Couperin: Suites (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 502 Mb | Total time: 79:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30577 | Recorded: 2018

At the harpsichord, Rinaldo Alessandrini creates several ‘suites de danse’ from the magnificent output of Louis Couperin.