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 his 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. He has also continued to release solo keyboard albums occasionally, including Bach: Klavierwerke in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic slowed Alessandrini only slightly; releases devoted to Monteverdi continued to appear, and 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.
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Vivaldi 12 Concertos Op.3 'Estro Armonico', Bach Keyboards Arrangements
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano
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Monteverdi: Tutti I Madrigali
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Giovanni Legrenzi: Mottetti
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Classical - Released by Naive on Apr 28, 2023
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Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libri primo e nono
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Miscellaneous - Released by naïve on Oct 13, 2023
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Vivaldi: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine (Vivaldi Ed. vol.11)
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Sep 30, 2003
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Chamber Music - Released by naïve classique on Apr 13, 2018
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Monteverdi: Concerto. Settimo libro de' madrigali
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Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini & Antonio Vivaldi)
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Jan 14, 2003
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Un viaggio a Roma (Händel, Stradella, Scarlatti, Corelli)
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by naïve classique on Sep 21, 2018
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Monteverdi: Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves
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Classical - Released by Naive on Nov 5, 2021
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Bach: Klavierwerke
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Mar 19, 2021
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Monteverdi : Il sesto libro de madrigali, MDCXIV
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Monteverdi: Il terzo libro de madrigali
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Opera - Released by naïve classique on Oct 30, 2020
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Melani : Motets
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by naïve classique on Aug 24, 2010
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Antonio Vivaldi : Arie per Basso (Opere teatrale, vol. 7)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Lorenzo Regazzo
Opera Extracts - Released by naïve classique on Feb 21, 2006
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Vivaldi: XII Suonate à violino solo, e basso per il cembalo
Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Maurizio Naddeo, Paolo Pandolfo
Classical - Released by Arcana on Jun 5, 2006
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Monteverdi: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda & Il Ballo delle Ingrate
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Jan 1, 1998
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Buxtehude: Harpsichord Works - 2 Suites & Variations "La Capricciosa"
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Feb 9, 2014
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Monteverdi: Il quarto libro de madrigali
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Jan 1, 1993
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Leclair: Premier livre de sonates à violon seul avec la basse continue
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Maurizio Naddeo, Pascal Monteilhet, Fabio Biondi
Classical - Released by Arcana on Jan 1, 1992
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Vivaldi: La Senna festeggiante
Juanita Lascarro, Sonia Prina, Nicola Ulivieri, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Full Operas - Released by naïve classique on Feb 19, 2002
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