Italian concertfounded in 1984, will take part in the Sociedad de Conciertos de Alicante program for the first time next Monday May 12, from 8 p.mwith a recital in which they will interpret works from III. books of Madrigales by Claudio Monteverdi conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini. Monica Piccinini y Sonia Tedlaambas soprano; María Chiara Gallomezzo soprano, Andres Montillahigh; Raffaele Giordanitenor; y Gabriele Lombardichild.
Concerto Italiano stands out for its rigorous musical investigation and commitment to the performance practice of the time in which the works were created. This translates into a deep understanding of the rhetoric and musical aesthetics of the Baroque.
El Club zone Ñ will do the draw two double entrances to attend this amazing concert.
Amazing group
Concerto Italiano is an Italian vocal group with great international prestigerecognized above strict emphasis, expressive y early music theaterespecially the Italian Baroque, under the expert guidance of Rinaldo Alessandrini.
The sentence published in The West Australian perfectly defines the importance of your actions: “Please let the Italians teach us about beauty. The interpretation of Monteverdi’s Concerto Italiano de las Vísperas was a beautiful song that flowed to the fullest.’
Concerto Italiano was born more than four years ago. Its history overlaps with the revival of early music in Italy. Monteverdi, Bach and Vivaldi were the main elements that the group achieved restore the language of ancient musicrevealing entirely new aesthetic and rhetorical aspects.
The list of venues where Concerto Italiano has taken place represents a selection of the best in the world. A large part of Europe with icons such as the Konzerthaus in Vienna or the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London and its main metropolises: Paris, Jerusalem, Rome, Oslo or Amsterdam.
The group also traveled to Spain from the Antigua Music Festival to Barcelona and took part in a complete cycle of Monteverdi madrigales at the Liceo. Also for Valencia, Bilbao, Seville, San Sebastián, Salamanca, Santander and especially Madrid.
Outside of Europe, on the way to America, it includes other great places such as the Library of Congress in Washington or references such as the Met of New York and especially the Lincoln Center.
After 33 years, The recordings of the Concerto Italiano are still considered reference versions by critics and the publicwhich reflects the definitive feeling the group was able to give to their power and exhaustion.
Concerto Italiano is currently available for Naïve. His recent releases include Monteverdi’s Orfeo, A. Scarlatti’s Sacred Music Collection, the Complete Monteverdi Madrigals, the Brandenburg Concertos and Bach’s Orchestral Suites; 1610 Visperas y la Selva Morale a Spirituale de Monteverdi, las Cuatro Estaciones a Estro Armonico de Vivaldi, version for cuerdas de las Variaciones Goldberg de Bach and a program of Roman music with Sandrine Piau.
The impressive variety of critical accolades received attests to the excellent quality of the reviewsnow recognized as a unique force in the interpretation of music of the XVII and XVIII centuries.
These are included five Gramophone Awards (the only Italian team to win this honor)diez Diapasons d’Or and dos Diapason d’Or de l’Année, as dos Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, diez de Repertoire, nueve Choc de la Musique, including Choc de l’Année, Cannes’ Classical Award – Disque de l’Ande’Annè de l’Anné de (1995 and 1997), Vivaldi Prize (Cini Foundation), Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Academie de Disque and Grand Prix de l’Academie Charles Cros, Prix Caecilia and Amadeo’s 1998 record.
Recording of Bach’s Brandenburg concerts was awarded by the magazine BBC music as the best version you received.
Global Director
In addition to your activities as fundador-director of Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini is an acclaimed concert harpsichord player, fortepiano y organ.
He is considered one of the most important Monteverdi artists worldwide. His deep knowledge and love of the Italian repertoire is naturally reflected in the programs, which strive to reproduce the basic elements, but also the unique, expressive and singable, so essential to the Italian music of the 17th and 18th centuries.
It has been implemented in Japan, Canada, EE. UU throughout Europe he is frequently requested by the major orchestras of the world: Orquesta de Cámara Escocesa, Orquesta de la Era de la Ilustración, Boston Handel, Orquesta Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Roma, Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Granada, Orquesta France, Oviedofon Orpelaica de Montpellier la Ópera de Lyon, Orquesta de la Radio Münich, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Washington Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami, Orquesta de la Ópera de de Chile (Chile), Capitole Orchestra in Toulouse, Orquesta Francisco Sfónchónica, Orquesta Francisco Sfónchónica de Santiago Seattle, Orquesta de la Radio de Turin, Orquesta Sinfónica Alemana de Berlin, Orquesta de la Radio de Francfort, Orquesta de Cámara de Paris, y Orquesta Tonkunstler de Viena and many others.
Among your recent compromises as an opera director is found Orlando Handel at the National Opera Gales and Opera Semper de Dresden, Fairy Queen de Purcell in the Filarmónica de Berlin y Bozar de Bruxelas; A simple trick y Zaide de Mozart with Orquesta de la Radio de Munich; Orpheus de Gluck y Bodas de Figaro de Mozart in Oslo, Don Giovanni also by the same composer in Lieja y Peter the Great de Donizetti in Bergamo.
Also directed the complete Monteverdi cycle at La Scala y Opera Garnier de Paris under the direction of Bob Wilson.
His recordings for books such as Opus 111, Astrèe, Arcana, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi include not only Italian music, but also Bach and his contemporaries. He has won major critical awards, including five Gramophone Awards, two Grand Prix du Disque, three German Schallplatten Awards, a Prix Caecilia, a Cini Award and four Midem Awards at Cannes.
Rinaldo Alessandrini was nominated Chevalier dans l’ordre des Artes et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and now with the Italian concert they have won prestigious Abbiati Award Italian music critics.
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