Name: Monteverdi: Night - Stories of Lovers and Warriors
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These maestros of madrigals recorded much of this repertoire to great acclaim some 20 or more years ago, but the cover of darkness provides an elegant context for fresh interpretations - with... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: OP30566
Label: Naive

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“Night. The time when the absence of light reveals hidden and sometimes mysterious aspects of reality. The time when, far from the noise of day, feelings and passions loom larger until they draw the human soul into a myriad of different and conflicting expressions. The privileged time for love, the painful time of tears or regrets...Monteverdi, who always possessed a keen instinct for the theatrical nature of life, was by no means insensible to the myriad meanings of night and the countless possibilities of evocation and suggestion it offers. But night doesn’t belong to him alone: the poets he set to music were equally unable to resist the fascination of the ambiguous contours created by moonlight.” Rinaldo Alessandrini

2017 marks the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi, one of the fathers of modern music, who gave a major impulse to expressivity and individuality of expression. Rinaldo Alessandrini’s benchmark recordings of Monteverdi and 17th-century Italian music over the past 35 years have established the Roman conductor, and his ensemble Concerto Italiano, as the leading ambassadors of Monteverdi.

Whilst he has recorded some of these madrigals with Concerto Italiano before, his interpretations continue to evolve and, as ever, he brings an Italianate emphasis to the texts that few ensembles can better in this repertoire.

'Night. Stories of Lovers and Warriors' offers highlights from Monteverdi’s most famous madrigals and instrumental movements including: Lamento della ninfa, Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Ho’r che’l ciel e la terra, sinfonias from Monteverdi’s three operas.

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August 2017

These maestros of madrigals recorded much of this repertoire to great acclaim some 20 or more years ago, but the cover of darkness provides an elegant context for fresh interpretations - with striking new takes on ornamentation and dissonance, pace and affect...A listening experience in which you can appreciate the alchemy of Monteverdi's craft and Alessandrini's execution of it.

June 2017

The tone of Alessandrini’s male soloists (most prominently in the Combattimento) is perhaps not classically beautiful but they have guts and a hint of menace. Anna Sinboli’s Clorinda captures the character’s vulnerability…impressive

9th April 2017

Night as a time of intrigue amorous and bellicose is the theme of this collection of masterpieces...all [are] performed with dramatic intensity by Alessandrini and his team.

12th May 2017

To appreciate this project properly, take the time to follow the texts of the sonnets (by Petrarch and others) and note how imaginatively Monteverdi matches poetic idea with musical gesture, and how expressively these singers convey this magical synthesis.

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