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Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano

Lucie Skeaping profiles keyboard player and director of Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, introducing music performed in concert at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival.

Lucie Skeaping profiles Rinaldo Alessandrini - keyboard player and director of Concerto Italiano - with music recorded at their recent Edinburgh International Festival concert.

Alessandrini founded Concerto Italiano in 1984 with a debut performance in Rome with Cavalli's opera "La Callisto". Now considered one of Europe's finest Baroque ensembles, Concerto Italiano is cherished for its vivid, urgent yet subtle performances that display a rare expressive flexibility. The ensemble celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and over the last three decades it has become renowned for its interpretations of Monteverdi, Vivaldi and Alessandro Scarlatti, amongst others.

Rinaldo Alessandrini brings a rich programme of exquisite Italian music to Greyfriars Kirk as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, contrasting instrumental pieces by Marini, Uccellini, Merula and Castello with dazzling madrigals by Monteverdi, including the highly moving "Lettera amorosa" and the hugely emotional miniature opera "Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda", in which a Christian knight unknowingly defeats his beloved in battle.

Concerto Italiano is joined for their Edinburgh concert by the soprano Anna Simboli and tenors Gianluca Ferrarini and Luca Dordolo.

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Sun 31 Aug 2014 14:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Rinaldo Alessandrini

    Chaconne: D茅raisonnable beaut茅

    Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NA脧VE OP : 305636.
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  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Asciugate Ii begli'occhi [6th Book of Madrigals]

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NA脧VE OP : 305636.
    • NA脧VE OP.
    • 8.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Overture: Alessandro

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NA脧VE OP : 305636.
    • NA脧VE OP.
    • 11.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A major, RV.160 (1st movement)

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NA脧VE OP : 305636.
    • NA脧VE OP.
    • 17.

  • Tarquinio Merula

    La Strada

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.

  • Marco Uccellini

    Bergamasca

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.

  • Biagio Marini

    Passacaglio a quattro

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.

  • Dario Castello

    Sonata XVI a4

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Perch猫 fuggi tra' salci [Marino]

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Lettera amorosa (Settimo Libro de' Madrigali)

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Toccata [Orfeo]

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NA脧VE OP : 305636.
    • NA脧VE OP.
    • 1.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Interrotte Speranze

    Performer: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.

Rinaldo Alessandrini

Rinaldo Alessandrini

Photo courtesy of Eric Larrayadieu / Na茂ve

Broadcast

  • Sun 31 Aug 2014 14:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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