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	MONTEVERDI Madrigals BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99710 [RH]: Classical CD Reviews- September 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano are one of the new groups who have helped redefine our ideas about Monteverdian performance style.
		An interesting comparison is the last item on Concerto Italiano’s disc, Piange sospira, their only item from the Fourth Book of Madrigals (this book concentrates on Guarini settings) which is also sung by the Consort of Musicke.
		In the concerto for solo voice and instruments Con che suavita, the tenor’s fine performance is rather over spot-lit for my tastes, I could have wished he had been given a better balance with the string parts rather than relegating them to a discreet accompaniment.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Sept04/Monteverdi_madrigals.htm (2575 words)

	HOASM: Pergolesi Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Concerto per quartetto in F minor (Durante); 3.
		Concerto in B flat for violin and strings (Pergolesi); 2.
		Concerto No. 5 for string orchestra in A major (Durante); 7.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIIB/PergolesiDiscography.html (104 words)

	music reviews @ biberfan.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Concerto #1 has nice oboe playing, and the tempi are very regular.
		Their trumpet player is on fine form, playing flawlessly in the fugue that makes the 3rd movement on the second concerto.
		I am not sure why, since this is most obviously a string concerto, but it sounds okay, and it’s really only fluff to connect the end of the first movement to those stoic chords.
	biberfan.org /reviews/?p=220 (689 words)

	Classical Net - Master Review Index by Composer - Vivaldi
		Concerto for Violin & 2 Orchestras, RV 585 by Tenenbaum/Philharmonia Virtuosi/Kapp - ESS.A.Y 1046 (RM)
		Concerto for Violin, Oboe, Chalumeau & 3 Viole all'inglese "Concerto funebre", RV 579 by Europa Galante/Biondi - Virgin 45424 (RS)
		Concerto for 4 Violins, Viola, & Harpsichord, RV 553 by Tenenbaum/Philharmonia Virtuosi/Kapp - ESS.A.Y 1046 (RM)
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/master/vivaldi.html (2252 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Concerto in E minor for violin & strings (from Op.
		In keeping with its name, Concerto Italiano performs a program of, well, Italian concertos, including one influenced by Italian style, J.S. Bach's (ahem) Italian Concerto, arranged by director Rinaldo Alessandrini for violin obbligato and strings.
		It seems that he thought it would be interesting to turn a keyboard piece back into a violin concerto that Bach may have written--and it actually works as a legitimate solo turn for violinist Francesca Vicari, and as an intriguing alternative listening experience for all keyboard players who know the commonly performed original version.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7928 (406 words)

	Gramophone Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Concerto Edvard Grieg and Robert Schumann Piano Concertos Leif Ove Andsnes / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons (EMI)
		Concerto Frédéric Chopin, Piano Concertos, Martha Argerich/Dutoit (EMI)
		Baroque Vocal Monteverdi, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini Chamber Bartok, String quartets, Takacs Quartet (Decca)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gramophone_Awards (1306 words)

	HOASM: Antonio Vivaldi Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Concerto for Violin in C minor, RV 199 "Il sospetto"; 4.
		Concerto for 2 Violins and Viola da Gamba obbligato, Strings and Continuo in G minor, RV 578 (op.3.
		Concerto for 2 Oboes and 2 Clarinets in C major, RV 559; 2.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIIA/VivaldiDiscography.html (3049 words)

	MDT - OP30412, Opus 111 CD
		In recent years Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano have added sparkling new performances of key classical works to the catalogue to clamouring critical acclaim with high sales figures to match.
		The Brandenburg Concertos are usually regarded as a high-water mark of the German baroque, but Alessandrini and his musicians argue the case forcefully and convincingly for considering them as Bach’s bid to outdo any contemporary Italian’s achievement in the concerto grosso form.
		Each of the six concertos is differently and innovatively scored — which Italian composer would use three solo violins, violas and cellos, or drop violins in favour of pairs of solo viole da braccia (conventional arm-held violas) and viole da gamba, as in Bach’s Nos 3 and 6?
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/OP30412.htm (437 words)

	CI/UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 2002 Concerto Italiano gave several European concerts featuring a concert version of Vivaldi's Olimpiade and a new stage production of Handel's Theodora in Salamanca and Bilbao, as well as "La Vergine dei Dolori" by Scarlatti in Naples and Vivladi's "Vespri solenni" in Siena and Ambronay.
		Their recordings of Vivaldi's Vespers and his Chamber Concertos won two Gramophone Awards in 2004, the former also a finalist for Record of the Year.
		The impressive array of critical awards received for these recordings confirms the outstanding quality of Concerto Italiano's performances, now recognised as a unique force in the interpretation of seventeenth and eighteenth century music.
	www.ricercare.it /Artist_biogs/CI/CI_UK/ci_uk.html (578 words)

	Tre Sonate - Concerto Italiano - Quattro Duetti - Capriccio by Sviatoslav Richter at jsbach.org
		Tre Sonate - Concerto Italiano - Quattro Duetti - Capriccio by Sviatoslav Richter at jsbach.org
		Tre Sonate - Concerto Italiano - Quattro Duetti - Capriccio
		The tempos are steady except for a few rushed moments in the Italian Concerto, and the articulation is almost always a neutral legato.
	www.jsbach.org /richtertresonateconcertoitalianoquattroduetticapriccio.html (297 words)

	Guardian \| Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Concerto Italiano/ Alessandrini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		If the starting point for the Brandenburg Concertos was the concerti grossi of Italian composers like Corelli and Vivaldi, the ways in which Bach elaborated and varied those models took them far from the originals.
		The Concerto Italiano assigns one player to a part in the ripieno groupings, and with Alessandrini (who supplies the continuo and takes on the solo harpsichord part in the Fifth Concerto) setting consistently fast tempi, the effect is effervescently light and transparent.
		And while there are plenty of other equally first-rate versions of the Brandenburgs on period instruments around, none surely has such a baffling cover illustration as this - a stag walking up the ramp of a multi-storey car park.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5308694-108884,00.html (150 words)

	Vivaldi: Four Seasons, Etc / Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano \| ArkivMusic
		Such recommendations are usually reserved for the end of a review but, no matter how many you may already have, I waste no time in urging you to add this one to their number.
		If you have none, go straight for this one...The knife-edge unanimity of attack, tone and dynamics of the 14 members of Concerto Italiano is remarkable, and the recording per se is crystal clear, luculent and perfectly balanced.
		Concerto for 2 Violins and Cello in D minor, Op.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=75741 (367 words)

	MDT - OP30377, Opus 111 CD
		VIVALDI Concerti ripieni Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini Opus 111
		There are nearly sixty concertos described quite simply as ‘per archi’, for strings, without the slightest sign of a soloist, but which offer a kaleidoscopic variety of forms and styles, from strict fugues to works written for his pupils, and which also showcase the composer’s operatic output.
		Not only do some of these concertos bear an astounding resemblance to sparkling opera overtures, they are full of arching melodies.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/OP30377.htm (234 words)

	Bath International Music Festival: Event Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for flute and strings
		Vivaldi Concerto in G for flute and strings RV 438
		Concerto Italiano has established itself with both critics and audiences alike as the finest ensemble of its kind working today.
	www.bathmusicfest.org.uk /pages/event.php?festival=2&show=186 (87 words)

	Bach Harpsichord Concertos : Classical CD Reviews-July 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The method of re-writing for the harpsichord from the violin was, following a transposition down a tone, to allocate the violin part to the right hand, while the left would often reinforce the bass line in the orchestra - though Bach, master that he was, never allowed the pattern to become a rigid formula.
		The three Concertos for the single soloist have the normal pattern - with a slow middle section framed by two quicker ones.
		The Concerto has an especially attractive complete middle Adagio for the three soloists unsupported and two outer movements with a brisk opening and an unconvincingly languid close.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2000/july00/Bach-Harpsichord.htm (562 words)

	Continuo Marketplace October 1997 Instrumental Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Concerto Palatino (Bruce Dickey and Doron Sherwin, cornetto; Charles Toet and Wim Becu, trombone [sackbut]; Stephen Stubbs, chitarrone; Klaus Eichorn, organ).
		Concerto Italiano is a group not previously known to me. Considering the four prior releases from this group advertised in the liner notes (Monteverdi madrigals, etc.), a recording of the Bach harpsichord concerti would seem a surprising hard right turn.
		Concerto Palatino has "stripped down" to two cornettos and two sackbuts for this recording, but that doesn’t seem to be a limiting factor.
	www.continuo.com /oct97/revins97.htm (8372 words)

	The Edinburgh festival 2005 -- EIF Review
		It represents some of the finest composition of the man who was maestro di cappella of San Marco, Venice from 1613, three years after he had composed his Vesperae of 1610, now his best-known work, until his death in 1643.
		The decorations provided by all the strings were suitably echoed by the fluid runs in the soprano parts, and the carefully controlled crescendo at 'Et misericordia eius' led into the triumphal finale 'Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, Abraham et semini eius in saecula' and Gloria.
		This sequence by Concerto Italiano was indeed a tour de force.
	www.edinburghguide.com /festival/2005/eif/review.shtml?05_08_22_concerto_italiano (509 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Concerti Italiani: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		And then for fun: reconstruct a putative orchestral 'original' for Bach's famous solo harpsichord 'Italian Concerto,' whose original is either lost or possibly never existed; it's possible Bach simply wrote a harpsichord piece in the Italian style and called it 'Italian Concerto'.
		Further, Alessandrini's Concerto Italiano (how apt that this group is playing these Italian concerti!) favor us with spectacularly impeccable playing and astounding verve and energy.
		There is the third movement (Adagio e staccato) of Benedetto Marcello's violin concerto in E minor whose staccato accompaniment limns a countermelody whose chords are played in triplicate thus: ff ppp p.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004ZBLB (752 words)

	Classical CD Reviews Pt.1 9/04 - AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
		Oddly, however, the Bach concerto is a fabrication of its own, conductor Alessandrini's arrangement of the well-known solo harpsichord work, the Italian Concerto, for strings.
		The other notable work on this release is a breathtaking reading of Vivaldi's G minor flute concerto, "La Notte." The interpretation is positively mind blowing, with a great long, erotic slow introduction and brilliant rhetorical touches and virtuosic flourishes as the piece goes on.
		The sound on the Vivaldi flute concerto, however, made in a different Roman church, has that extra space and is drop dead gorgeous.
	www.audaud.com /audaud/SEP04/classical/clcds1.html (2647 words)

	andante boutique - johann sebastian bach: brandenburg concertos - concerto italiano, rinaldo alessandrini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Weigh up the alchemical combinations they entail (verging on the impossible in the second concerto, where such strange bedfellows as a trumpet and a recorder are required to balance their sound).
		Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto n° 2 in F major, BWV 1047: Allegro assai: Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, 2005
		Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
	www.andante.com /boutique/shop/index.cfm?action=displayProduct&iProductID=895 (513 words)

	Events calendar October '99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Program of Concert and Lectures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in cooperation with Istituto Italiano di Cultura, is pleased to present a concert by the ensemble Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini music director.
		Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Sistemi Edilizi Territoriali, Politecnico of Milan, in cooperation with Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the Italian Academy at Columbia University, are pleased to present the inaugural session of
		The Arion Press, Limited Edition Books with Original Art, is devoted to the publication of the finest contemporary art with the finest literature past and present in books that are beautifully designed and produced in the tradition of San Francisco's fine press.
	www.italcultny.org /events/1999/october99.htm (2816 words)

	Musica Angelica - January 2006 Concert Series Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 2003 Alessandrini was nominated Chevalier dans l’ordre des Artes et des Lettres by the French Minister of the Culture and was also the recipient, with Concerto Italiano, of the Premio Abbiati.
		He performs as principal oboist and concerto soloist with the country's leading period instrument groups, including Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists, Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), the Portland, Seattle, and LA Baroque Orchestras, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Apollo¹s Fire (Cleveland), and Musica Angelica.
		VIVALDI Concerto for violin and organ, RV 541; Concerto for oboe and bassoon, RV 545
	www.musicaangelica.org /January06release.html (801 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - Concerto Italiano: Monteverdi - Vespers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sacked from the Mantuan court at the age of 45, in 1613 he was appointed Maestro di Cappella at St Mark's, Venice, where he worked for the remaining 30 years of his life.
		As performed by Concerto Italiano, the music of Vespro Solenne per la festivita di S Marco had been reconstructed by its conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini.
		Vocally the performance was very good, but the deployment of instrumentalists on the platform with strings and harpsichord behind the singers contributed to some imbalance of sound.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /reviews.cfm?id=1836322005 (257 words)

	andante boutique - antonio vivaldi : le quattro stagioni + cd bonus concerto italiano portrait - concerto italiano, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		They open a collection with a pompous title: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione, that is the battle, the challenge, the contest between harmony (balance, order, resonance) and invention (melody, the unexpected ornament, surprising expression).
		The concertos are accompanied by four sonnets, one for each concerto, probably written by Vivaldi himself.
		Yet the structural originality of these concertos would be almost inexplicable without the sonnets.
	www.andante.com /boutique/shop/index.cfm?action=displayProduct&iProductID=521 (451 words)

	Mariedi Anders Artists Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		His discography includes concertos by Carl Nielsen, Shostakovich, Bach, Beethoven, Bruch, and Sibelius, as well as concerti by Scandinavian composers Tor Aulin, Franz Berwald, Lars-Erik Larsson, Johan Svendsen, Christian Sinding, Fartein Valen, and Alfred Janson.
		The Norwegian Arve Tellefsen was the distinguished soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and his powerful and extrovert account revealed the raw energy of the work, and its romantic and dramatic qualities, while giving plenty of attention to detail.
		His sound was rich and beautifully colored, with sufficient litheness to save it from schmatlz; but most impressive were the patience and assurance with which he shaped the course of his monologue, carefully charting its crests and gathering its long span into a single unified utterance.
	www.andersmanagement.com /soatellefsen.htm (744 words)

	April Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura will present two concerts, as part of the series, Music in the Time of Tiepolo.
		To honor the 300th anniversary of the birth of Gianbattista Tiepolo, a special collaboration between The Pierpont Morgan Library and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura will celebrate the cultural richness of Tiepolo's era by presenting the Ensemble di Roma.
		The multi-cultural mosaic of Central Europe is at the center of her work.
	www.italcultny.org /events/1997/apr.htm (1589 words)

	Classical Net Review - Marcello/Bach/Vivaldi - Italian Concertos
		Concerto for Flute "La notte" in G minor, Op.
		Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano present the original versions of four concertos that attracted Bach's attention and, as centre piece, his transcription of the solo keyboard Italian Concerto into a putative original version.
		As Opus 111 puts it "the transcriber transcribed - with delightful results!" Hearing the Italian Concerto as a violin concerto, free from the limitations of plucked or hammered strings, is entirely convincing.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/n/nai30301a.html (260 words)

	JR.com: Vivaldi: Concerti Ripieni / Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano in Music: Classical:
		Conductor - Ensemble: Alessandrini, Rinaldo - Concerto Italiano
		Concerto for Strings in G minor, RV 153
		Concerto for Strings in C minor, RV 120
	www.jr.com /xs-vivaldi-concerti-ripieni-alessandrini-concerto-italiano-in-music-classical--pi!3977809.html (773 words)

	Amazon.com: Monteverdi: Quarto Libro dei Madrigali: Music: Rossana Bertini,Claudio Cavina,Giuseppe Maletto,Cristina ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		with Sandro Naglia, Claudio Cavina, Cristina Miatello, Giuseppe Maletto, Rossana Bertini, Italiano Concerto, Marcello Vargetto, Bianca Simone
		Concerto Italiano's performance is a revelation: each quicksilver change in tempo or volume is beautifully judged, yet sounds completely spontaneous and natural.
		The performances by Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano are everything the critics have been raving about for a number of years now.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000027MVE?v=glance (1433 words)

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