Rinaldo Alessandrini & Concerto Italiano – 1700 (2018) [FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

A player of the harpsichord, organ and pianoforte; a choirmaster and conductor; Rinaldo Alessandrini is a teacher too, who loves to use his records and concerts to draw his audience into thrilling themes. This Roman is well-placed to know just how much history – and musical history is no exception here – is made up of strata which build up over each other, creating a jumble which can be anarchic, but which always drives invention.
After an album that retells the story of 150 Years of Italian Music (Naïve 1994), and then another dedicated to the beginnings of Italian baroque in 1600 (Naïve 2012), we were treated to an enchanting black pearl, as incongruous as it was strange: Monteverdi – Night. Stories of lovers and Warriors (Naïve 2017) offers a collection of works that celebrate the night. Here is a recording dedicated to the flourishing of instrumental music in the later baroque period around 1700.

The new composers who appear in this new work, Locatelli, Mascitti, Vivaldi, Caldara, Durante, Galuppi, Pugnani, were all very famous in their own times, and all went off to bring the good news about this new musical style to the four corners of Europe; they built up a kind of international musical language which would entrance the courts, and music-lovers in their first public concerts. The record bears that joyful playing style characteristic of Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano, and a virtuosity which is as much a pleasure to behold as the rococo architecture and painting of that flamboyant epoch. – François Hudry

Tracklist:
01. 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in E Minor: I. Allegro moderato
02. 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in E Minor: II. Allegro
03. 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in E Minor: III. Larghetto
04. 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in E Minor: IV. Allegro moderato
05. La morte d’Abel, Sinfonia No. 3 in F Minor: I. Larghetto
06. La morte d’Abel, Sinfonia No. 3 in F Minor: II. Andante
07. Concerto for Strings in D Major, RV 124: I. Allegro
08. Concerto for Strings in D Major, RV 124: II. Grave
09. Concerto for Strings in D Major, RV 124: III. Allegro
10. Concerto a quattro in G Minor: I. Affettuoso-Presto
11. Concerto a quattro in G Minor: II. Largo affettuoso
12. Concerto a quattro in G Minor: III. Allegro
13. 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 3, No. 3 in E Minor, H. 75: I. Adagio e Staccato & II. Allegro-Adagio
14. 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 3, No. 3 in E Minor, H. 75: III. Adagio
15. 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 3, No. 3 in E Minor, H. 75: IV. Allegro
16. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 “Lamento”: I. Lamento. Largo
17. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 “Lamento”: II. Alla breve ma moderato
18. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 “Lamento”: III. Grave
19. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 “Lamento”: IV. Non presto
20. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 “Lamento”: V. La consolazione. Andante
21. Concerto a quattro No. 1 in G Minor: I. Grave e Adagio
22. Concerto a quattro No. 1 in G Minor: II. Spiritoso
23. Concerto a quattro No. 1 in G Minor: III. Allegro
24. Sinfonia per archi in B-Flat Major: Adagio

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