Monteverdi’s madrigals: il terzo libro - Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini

If you only want to hear Claudio's madrigals once, let it be tonight Few know Monteverdi's madrigals better than Rinaldo Alessandrini: thirty years of dedication speaks for itself. In his third volume, you hear the 25-year-old composer choosing his poets with surgical precision: Guarini, Tasso … Poetry with enough specific weight to carry drama, truth, and emotion. Concerto Italiano injects the polyphony with a smart dose of chiaroscuro and rhetoric, all in the service of the text. A snapshot of the queen genre of Italian vocal music, just before Koning Opera took over the scepter.