Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
Raffaele Giordani, Monica Piccinini, Matteo Bellotto; Concerto Italiano Naïve OP3058
Trust 2017’s celebrations of the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth to complicate things. Up until then, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini’s crack cohort of native musicians, had made just. Now there are two: the newcomer embedded in a programme devoted to night, love, and war; its predecessor in a set exploring the Eighth Book of Madrigals. And to choose between them is no easy matter. While Alessandrini’s first thoughts have an edgy freshness, nearly two decades on the gain in depth is inescapable, even if some of the edginess is less pronounced.
