Rinaldo Alessandrini Concerto Italiano - Il terzo libro de madrigali on CD

Description

No one knows better than Rinaldo Alessandrini that Monteverdi's madri-gals to which he has dedicated a major part of his work and recordings over the past thirty years were above all texts where the music was the servant, and not the mistress. This form of a cappella vocal polyphony, responding sensitively to the inflec-tions of a highly expressive poetry, was born in the full flowering of Re-naissance humanism and developed in the 17th century by composers such as Monteverdi, Marenzio and Gesualdo, before being supplanted by the opera. As the Italian maestro explains, in the Third Book of Madri-gals we can already see how carefully the twenty-five-year-old Monteverdi chooses poetry, e.g. by Guarini and Tasso, which is capable of 'responding to the needs of the dra-ma, of truth, humanity and emotion-ality, culminating at the end of his life in the lustrous triumph of his final works'.

Tracks

La Giovinetta Pianta
O Come H Gran Martmre
Sovra Tenere Erbette E Bianchi Fiori
O Dolce Anima Mia, Dunque H Pur Vero
Stracciami Pure Il Core
Rossignuol Che in Queste Verdi Fronde
Se Per Estremo Ardore
Vattene Pure, Crudel
O Primavera, Gioventu Dell'anno
Perfidissimo Volto
Ch'io Non T'ami, Cor Mio?
Occhi, Un Tempo Mia Vita
Vivro fra I Miei Tormenti
Lumi, Miei Cari Lumi
Rimanti in Pace