Rinaldo Alessandrini

Rinaldo Alessandrini is a significant conductor and harpsichordist focusing on Italian Baroque music. After musical research including serious study in Italian music from 1550 to 1750, Alessandrini embarked on his profession like a harpsichordist, both like a soloist so that as continuo participant/innovator of Concerto Italiano, a vocal and instrumental ensemble he founded. Through the 1980s and 1990s Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano founded themselves as the best ensemble for Italian Baroque music from your music’s home nation. Alessandrini feels that, no matter musical era, there’s a group of “important, but frequently elusive, expressive and cantabile components fundamental to Italian music.” His goal is to discover those characteristics in music from the Italian Baroque period, which he respect “probably the most fertile and innovative in every Italian music.” He and Concerto Italiano possess toured thoroughly in Europe, including lots of the main musical festivals, specifically the types with desire for the period. They record for numerous brands — playing a significant part in Naive’s Vivaldi Release recordings — and also have received awards like the Cini Basis Vivaldi Reward, the Choc de la Musique, Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, the Diapason d’Or (in three successive years), the Cecilia Reward, the Gramophone Honor, the BBC Music Journal Prize, as well as the Grand Prix de l’Academie Charles Cros. Alessandrini also conducts Italian Baroque opera. His is known as among the world’s leading professionals in the operas of Monteverdi, and in addition revives lesser-known Italian opera composers such as for example Cavalli and Vinci. He contains the Italian operas of George Frideric Handel in his performing repertoire, and he and Concerto Italiano possess documented harpsichord concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. These Gramophone Award-nominated shows are hailed for spending special focus on the immediate Italian motivation for the concertos. Additional acclaimed CDs consist of his two quantities of One 100 Fifty Many years of Italian Music, offering harpsichord music within the 1st disc and body organ music on the next. Among his choral recordings with Concerto Italiano are of Monteverdi’s eight books of Madrigals, three which received Gramophone Awards.