Rinaldo Alessandrini & Concerto Italiano - 1700 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Following on from the noteworthy al-bum ‘1600', released in 2012, ‘1700' is a vibrant homage to Italian Baroque, in which Rinaldo Alessandrini has brought together the most outstand-ing Italian composers of the first half of the eighteenth century: Locatelli, Mascitti, Vivaldi, Caldara, Durante, Ga-luppi and Pugnani. All of these com-posers went into exile, serv-ing prestigious foreign courts. They each evolved the ‘Italian style,’ based either on their own tastes or those of the country in which they had taken refuge. Each composer created his own share of wonders, to which Maestro Alessandrini’s intelligent and re-fined interpretation brings a passionate fresh perspective.

“Throughout the eighteenth century, and to a considerable extent, the fate of many Italian composers was to emigrate, and serve at courts and chapels far from home. Many of them broke away from the rules governing the legato style of their home country, developing a completely independent personality through the mingling of musical languages and the superimposition of tastes and fashions. Accordingly, in their works national styles lose their sharply-defined con-tours, as they undergo a process of personal and subtle assimilation of the most striking aspects of their host country’s musical culture.

In particular, the Italians exported their taste for melodic cantabile, their elegance, and a certain kind of histrionic individualism inherited from the opera stage and the great instrumental virtuosi. The encounter with musical Europe often caused a realignment of those elements, though they remained one of the multiple components of the composers’ personalities.”

Tracklist:
01. 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in E Minor: I. Allegro moderato
02. 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in E Minor: II. Allegro
03. 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in E Minor: III. Larghetto
04. 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Concertos, Op. 7, No. 2 in E Minor: IV. Allegro moderato
05. La morte d'Abel, Sinfonia No. 3 in F Minor: I. Larghetto
06. La morte d'Abel, Sinfonia No. 3 in F Minor: II. Andante
07. Concerto for Strings in D Major, RV 124: I. Allegro
08. Concerto for Strings in D Major, RV 124: II. Grave
09. Concerto for Strings in D Major, RV 124: III. Allegro
10. Concerto a quattro in G Minor: I. Affettuoso-Presto
11. Concerto a quattro in G Minor: II. Largo affettuoso
12. Concerto a quattro in G Minor: III. Allegro
13. 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 3, No. 3 in E Minor, H. 75: I. Adagio e Staccato & II. Allegro-Adagio
14. 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 3, No. 3 in E Minor, H. 75: III. Adagio
15. 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 3, No. 3 in E Minor, H. 75: IV. Allegro
16. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 "Lamento": I. Lamento. Largo
17. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 "Lamento": II. Alla breve ma moderato
18. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 "Lamento": III. Grave
19. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 "Lamento": IV. Non presto
20. Sinfonia funebre composta per le essequie della sua donna che si celebrarono in roma in F Minor, DunL 2.2 "Lamento": V. La consolazione. Andante
21. Concerto a quattro No. 1 in G Minor: I. Grave e Adagio
22. Concerto a quattro No. 1 in G Minor: II. Spiritoso
23. Concerto a quattro No. 1 in G Minor: III. Allegro
24. Sinfonia per archi in B-Flat Major: Adagio