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 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. That recording was on the Naïve label, which would be Alessandrini's home for much of his recording career. In 1992, he issued a collection of Alessandro Scarlatti's keyboard music on the Arcana label; he has also recorded for Opus 111, which released Alessandrini's early recordings of Monteverdi madrigals with Concerto Italiano. As an opera conductor, Alessandrini has led performances of Monteverdi operas as well as those of lesser-known composers, such as Francesco Cavalli and Leonardo Vinci. His involvement with a major series of recently rediscovered Vivaldi works issued on Naïve brought him to international attention and resulted in Europe-wide tours and festival appearances for Concerto Italiano. Other acclaimed Alessandrini recordings included those of Handel's Italian-language operas and harpsichord concertos by J.S. Bach, stressing their direct Italian antecedents. The group's recordings of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos have been both critical and commercial successes. Alessandrini returned to Monteverdi's operas in the 2010s, conducting L'incoronazione di Poppea at the La Scala opera house in Milan. He has recorded prolifically, issuing as many as four albums a year in the 2010s; the 2018 set included Un viaggio a Roma. Alessandrini is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, by the designation of the French government.© James Manheim /TiVo Read more
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. That recording was on the Naïve label, which would be Alessandrini's home for much of his recording career. In 1992, he issued a collection of Alessandro Scarlatti's keyboard music on the Arcana label; he has also recorded for Opus 111, which released Alessandrini's early recordings of Monteverdi madrigals with Concerto Italiano.
As an opera conductor, Alessandrini has led performances of Monteverdi operas as well as those of lesser-known composers, such as Francesco Cavalli and Leonardo Vinci. His involvement with a major series of recently rediscovered Vivaldi works issued on Naïve brought him to international attention and resulted in Europe-wide tours and festival appearances for Concerto Italiano. Other acclaimed Alessandrini recordings included those of Handel's Italian-language operas and harpsichord concertos by J.S. Bach, stressing their direct Italian antecedents. The group's recordings of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos have been both critical and commercial successes. Alessandrini returned to Monteverdi's operas in the 2010s, conducting L'incoronazione di Poppea at the La Scala opera house in Milan. He has recorded prolifically, issuing as many as four albums a year in the 2010s; the 2018 set included Un viaggio a Roma.
Alessandrini is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, by the designation of the French government.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Vivaldi 12 Concertos Op.3 'Estro Armonico', Bach Keyboards Arrangements
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve on Mar 25, 2022
One of Antonio Vivaldi’s undisputed masterpieces—alongside the famous Quattro Stagioni—L’Estro armonico, a set of 12 concertos for stringed instrument ...
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Monteverdi: Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve on Nov 5, 2021
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Rinaldo Alessandrini
Chamber Music - Released by naïve classique on Apr 13, 2018
5 de DiapasonGramophone Editor's ChoiceA player of the harpsichord, organ and pianoforte; a choirmaster and conductor; Rinaldo Alessandrini is a teacher too, who loves to use his records an ...
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Monteverdi: Il terzo libro de madrigali
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Opera - Released by naïve classique on Oct 30, 2020
Diapason d'orNo one knows better than Rinaldo Alessandrini that Monteverdi's madrigals – to which he has dedicated a major part of his work and recordings over the ...
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Bach: Klavierwerke
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Mar 19, 2021
As Esteban Hernández Castello explains in the accompanying booklet: "This enables us to range through the whole gamut of musical languages the compose ...
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Vivaldi: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine (Vivaldi Ed. vol.11)
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Sep 30, 2003
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Un viaggio a Roma (Händel, Stradella, Scarlatti, Corelli)
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by naïve classique on Sep 21, 2018
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Vivaldi: La Senna festeggiante
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Full Operas - Released by naïve classique on Feb 19, 2002
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Melani : Motets
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by naïve classique on Aug 24, 2010
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Monteverdi: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda & Il Ballo delle Ingrate
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Jan 1, 1998
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Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat mater a dieci voci
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Jan 1, 2002
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Per la Vergine Maria (Monteverdi, Bencini, Melani, Soler, A. Scarlatti...)
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by naïve classique on May 9, 2011
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Louis Couperin: Suites
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Jun 11, 2019
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Pergolèse, Vivaldi: Stabat Mater
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Sep 3, 2007
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Monteverdi: Il quarto libro de madrigali
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Jan 1, 1993
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Boehm: Suites & Partitas
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Jan 1, 1994
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Vivaldi : L'Olimpiade (Highlights)
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Oct 16, 2007
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Leclair: Premier livre de sonates à violon seul avec la basse continue
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by Arcana on Jan 1, 1992
When this album first appeared in 1992, violinist Fabio Biondi and keyboardist Rinaldo Alessandrini attracted little attention in comparision with the ...
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Antonio Vivaldi : Arie per Basso (Opere teatrale, vol. 7)
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Opera Extracts - Released by naïve classique on Feb 21, 2006
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Palestrina: Il primo libro de Madrigali a quattro voci
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by Tactus on Oct 1, 2012
Pierluigi Palestrina is considered the father of religious music, and by Verdi that of Italian music. He is the cantor of the Counter-Reformation styl ...
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Trent'anni a Roma
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Released by naïve classique on May 26, 2014
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