This three-disc box combines several recordings by the Concerto Italiano and leader Rinaldo Alessandrini, dating back to 1998; the result is a complete set of Monteverdi's madrigals of Book Eight. The word "madrigal" was fast losing its meaning by this late stage in Monteverdi's career, and the works contained here are of various kinds. One can ...
The recordings of the Concerto Italiano under its leader Rinaldo Alessandrini, such as this album, first released in 1997, electrified the authentic-performance movement in Italy. Alessandrini showed that performances of Vivaldi on authentic instruments could be edgy, brisk, even tough. The group's ensemble work was unmatched, but perhaps best of ...
Known mostly as an operatic contemporary of Mozart, Giovanni Paisiello had a long life and generally managed to prosper through the upheavals of the eighteenth century's last decade. He wrote eight keyboard concertos clearly marked by operatic style. Part of his early career was spent in the service of Catherine the Great in Russia, and the first ...
This recording, made in 1998, was one of a group that elevated Pergolesi's Stabat mater, written shortly before his extremely untimely death from tuberculosis, to the status of a major masterpiece. Really the group as a whole has had more to do with that elevation than any single recording, for it has shown how much there is to this set of arias ...
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