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Alessandro has been happily living his paternity leave for a few months now, enjoying the first moments of life of his first-born daughter Ambra.
In the meantime, some concerts have been announced for his next season, which will be full of great highlights:
On 24 September 2023, Alessandro will open the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Eastbourne season with a programme that includes Mendelssohn’s Calm sea and prosperous voyage, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, with violinist Chloë Hanslip.
On 12 October 2023, he will conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra in a concert at London’s Britten Theater with music by Britten, Elgar, and Respighi.
Again, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Alessandro will be engaged in the closing concert of their season in Bedford on 10 May 2024.
The programme will include Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony and Mozart’s Piano concerto K451 with Martin Helmchen.
Other numerous engagements, to be announced soon, will see him travel to Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and see him return to Asia, after the long break due to the pandemic.

On September 7^th and 8^th, Alessandro Crudele will conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Blackheath Halls (London) for his second discographic project with Linn Records.

He will record a programme with an English flavour: Four Sea Interludes (from Peter Grimes) by Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar’s majestic Violin Concerto, along with Michael Barenboim as soloist.

This recording follows Alessandro’s very successful discographic debut with Linn Records: his Respighi album with the London Philharmonic Orchestra – released in June 2022 –  was extremely well received by the international press. 

You can stream or download it here.

The first impressions from the international press are unanimously enthusiastic about Alessandro Crudele’s Respighi album with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Linn Records.

Andrew McGregor said on BBC Radio 3:

You might want to sample a new recording of Ottorino Respighi from the London Philharmonic conducted by Alessandro Crudele. Respighi’s Pines of Rome is the big hit here, but the other two pieces are major reasons to investigate I think – comparative rarities: Brazilian Impressions and Belkis, Queen of Sheba, one of Respighi’s last major works for enormous forces. The four-movement suite from Belkis draws outstanding playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alessandro Crudele.

Matthias Käther said in RBB Kultur “Meine Musik” podcast:

[…] Crudele elaborates the quiet, sensual and exotic aspects of this music better than Muti, more convincingly. […] Thanks Linn for this fine album!

Music critic Paolo Locatelli wrote on Classic Voice:

Here, then, is Alessandro Crudele’s debut disc, at the helm of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which, besides being a great listen, goes some way towards filling a gap. And above all, it does so with great class. Crudele’s Respighi is colourful and virtuoso, imaginative and iridescent. […] This is helped by the orchestra, which has flexibility and plenty of quality to spare. And what you hear is thus a Respighi who combines a lucidity of radiographic analysis with a springy discursiveness.

Sven Kerkhoff wrote on Musik an sich:

Here, Alessandro Crudele is a truly expert administrator who works with a sure instinct and resists the temptation to run after the flashy effect by applying too much colour.

On Suonare News, Angelo Foletto wrote:

An incisively beautiful reading key.

Finally, the French newspaper La Voix du Nord wrote:

Italian conductor Alessandro Crudele knows this soundworld inside out. With his skilful London orchestra, he never slips into the easy spectacle, so as to showcase all the colours and feelings which this music provides.

Last but not least, the album has been nominated for The German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik) – the most important prize dedicated to recordings in Germany. The winner will be announced on August 15.

Alessandro Crudele’s debut album on Linn Records – featuring music by Respighi performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra – is released worldwide today, 3 June 2022. It is available on streaming platforms and in stores:

The album was recorded last October at the Henry Wood Hall in London and represents a compendium of programmatic works spanning the artistic life of Ottorino Respighi:

This colourful journey across different times and places marks the first recording of Italian conductor Alessandro Crudele and the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Linn. At the helm of the flamboyant LPO the versatile conductor has recorded a compendium of programmatic works spanning the artistic life of Ottorino Respighi. Starting with one of his first masterpieces, the evocative and at times epic Pini di Roma is a botanical journey through Rome at different times of the day. The more impressionistic, travelogue Impressioni brasiliane, the result of a trip Respighi made in Brazil, is suffused with local music and culture and dates from the mature years of the composer. Much in the same vein, the late ballet Belkis, regina di Saba describes a mythological voyage this time; the little-known work recounts the Queen’s route across the desert to meet Solomon, King of Israel, with whom she is in love.