Special offer. Stravagante pensiero: Gesualdo & Napoli
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Choral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2026 Winner, Early
The delight of these songs lies in the perfection of their execution. Alessandrini and his singers began their career with Monteverdi, learning how to burn with musical passion, and this CD...
Special offer. Stravagante pensiero: Gesualdo & Napoli
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Choral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2026 Winner, Early
The delight of these songs lies in the perfection of their execution. Alessandrini and his singers began their career with Monteverdi, learning how to burn with musical passion, and this CD...
About
With Stravagante pensiero, Rinaldo Alessandrini and the vocal soloists of his Concerto Italiano revisit the genre of the madrigal, spanning the vast landscape of musical Naples at the beginning of the seventeenth century. A host of musicians thus embraces a new, revolutionary, hyper-expressive, theatrical and feverish musical language. Intoxicating.
Contents and tracklist
- Gabriele Lombardi (bass (voice)), Monica Piccinini (soprano (voice)), Sonia Tedla (soprano (voice)), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo-soprano (voice)), Andrés Montilla (alto (voice))
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi, Monica Piccinini, Maria Chiara Gallo, Andrés Montilla, Raffaele Giordani
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
Scipione Lacorcia, Luzzasco Luzzaschi:
Madrigali a 5 voci, libro 5: Ecco o dolce, o gradita
Work length2:29
- Gabriele Lombardi (bass (voice)), Sonia Tedla (soprano (voice)), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo-soprano (voice)), Raffaele Giordani (tenor (voice)), Roberto Rilievi (tenor (voice))
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi, Sonia Tedla, Andrés Montilla, Raffaele Giordani, Roberto Rilievi
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi (bass (voice)), Sonia Tedla (soprano (voice)), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo-soprano (voice)), Andrés Montilla (alto (voice)), Roberto Rilievi (tenor (voice))
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi (bass (voice)), Monica Piccinini (soprano (voice)), Sonia Tedla (soprano (voice)), Andrés Montilla (alto (voice)), Roberto Rilievi (tenor (voice))
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
Scipione Lacorcia, Ascanio Mayone:
Il primo libro di madrigali a 5 voci: Fuggi, fuggi oh mio core!
Work length2:34
- Gabriele Lombardi, Monica Piccinini, Andrés Montilla, Raffaele Giordani, Roberto Rilievi
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi, Sonia Tedla, Andrés Montilla, Raffaele Giordani, Roberto Rilievi
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi (bass (voice)), Monica Piccinini (soprano (voice)), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo-soprano (voice)), Andrés Montilla (alto (voice)), Roberto Rilievi (tenor (voice))
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
Turco:
Altro non è'l mio amore (from Da Gagliano's "Il terzo libro de madrigali a 5 voci")
Work length2:28
- Gabriele Lombardi (bass (voice)), Monica Piccinini (soprano (voice)), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo-soprano (voice)), Andrés Montilla (alto (voice)), Roberto Rilievi (tenor (voice))
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi (bass (voice)), Sonia Tedla (soprano (voice)), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo-soprano (voice)), Raffaele Giordani (tenor (voice)), Roberto Rilievi (tenor (voice))
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
Lambardi:
All'ombra degli allori (from "Teatro de Madrigali a 5 voci de diversi eccellentissimi musici napolitani")
Work length1:47
- Gabriele Lombardi, Sonia Tedla, Maria Chiara Gallo, Andrés Montilla, Raffaele Giordani
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi (bass (voice)), Monica Piccinini (soprano (voice)), Sonia Tedla (soprano (voice)), Andrés Montilla (alto (voice)), Roberto Rilievi (tenor (voice))
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi, Monica Piccinini, Maria Chiara Gallo, Andrés Montilla, Raffaele Giordani
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
- Gabriele Lombardi (bass (voice)), Sonia Tedla (soprano (voice)), Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo-soprano (voice)), Raffaele Giordani (tenor (voice)), Roberto Rilievi (tenor (voice))
- Concerto Italiano
- Rinaldo Alessandrini
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineChristmas Issue 2025Choral Choice
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Gramophone MagazineDecember 2025Editor's Choice
Christmas Issue 2025
The delight of these songs lies in the perfection of their execution. Alessandrini and his singers began their career with Monteverdi, learning how to burn with musical passion, and this CD breaks exciting new ground. For small vocal ensembles looking for thrilling new material, this music is a gift.
December 2025
The more you listen, the more they reveal themselves to be at one with every facet of this demanding music's restless expressive language. Full of surprises and superbly done, this is an almost intoxicatingly pained addition to the catalogue.
