Unanimously recognised as one of the leading interpreters of Monteverdi, Rinaldo Alessandrini's recordings have become benchmark references. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of his orchestra, Concerto Italiano, Alessandrini returns to his preferred composer, creating, in the magnificent Basilica of Mantua, an imagined Vespers service for San Marco assembled from various parts of the ‘Selva morale e spirituale’ and gathering together the sublime Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Magnificat…In doing so he has found “the expressive logic which is at the heart of the liturgies for which this music was composed”. This represents Alessandrini's first volume in a complete recording of the Selva Morale.
