OP30580 (3CD) 蒙台威爾第: 牧歌第三冊 阿列山德里尼 指揮 義大利協奏團

蒙台威爾第:牧歌(五聲部)第三冊
里納多．阿列山德里尼 指揮 義大利協奏團

No one knows better than Rinaldo Alessandrini that Monteverdi's madrigals – to which he has dedicated a major part of his work and recor-dings over the past thirty years – were above all texts where the music was the servant, and not the mistress. This form of a cappella vocal poly-phony, responding sensitively to the inflections of a highly expressive poetry, was born in the full flowering of Renaissance humanism and deve-loped in the 17th century by composers such as Monteverdi, Marenzio and Gesualdo, before being supplanted by the opera. As the Italian maestro explains, in the Third Book of Madrigals we can already see how carefully the twenty-five-year-old Monteverdi chooses poetry, e.g. by Guarini and Tasso, which is capable of 'responding to the needs of the drama, of truth, humanity and emotionality, culminating at the end of his life in the lustrous triumph of his final works'.

This is the fifth collection of madrigals Rinaldo Alessandrini has recorded with Concerto Italia-no, and it is the cornerstone of his quest for an intimate understanding of Monteverdi's reper-toire – and all the music that came after it. These madrigals have 'the power to allow the perfor-mers to read the human passions, perceive them empathetically, and restore them in the very finest dress' (Esteban Hernandez Castello). Their analytical yet sensitive approach leads to a pre-cise intonation, a direct transmission of naked emotions, and the restoration of details we can only glimpse behind the words, revealing in all its beauty what lies hidden in the music: mirror images of the soul.