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The historical performance ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro, from Switzerland, has taken on a choral component, and this release, with Giuseppe Maletto as director, is its first unaccompanied choral release. The initial impressions are very good. The group's slogan on social media is "We have the guts"; this refers to the gut strings used by the orchestra but could also apply to the sound of the choir -- an ideal 12 voices, mixed-gender and adult, from whom Maletto gets some grain. The sound matches these motets of Carlo Gesualdo beautifully. These pieces have a deeply penitential tone that has been linked in listeners' minds with the composer's murder of his wife and her lover. Maletto points out that a motet written in the 1580s, before the murders, has the same tone, but texts like that of Laboravi in gemitu meo ("I am weary of my groaning; every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my tears"), not often set by composers, do seem to have a stark, intense quality. Whatever the biographical implications, the music does have a subjective quality that is unusual in sacred music, and Maletto strikes a fine balance that catches it without making the pieces sound like madrigals. The result is an unusually satisfying recording of these works, which are less often recorded than the late Tenebrae Responsories. It is enhanced by idiomatic sound from the Chiesa della Confraternita dei Santi Rocco e Sebastiano in Cumiana, Italy, transparent enough to bring out the texture of the voices.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
Album review
The historical performance ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro, from Switzerland, has taken on a choral component, and this release, with Giuseppe Maletto as director, is its first unaccompanied choral release. The initial impressions are very good. The group's slogan on social media is "We have the guts"; this refers to the gut strings used by the orchestra but could also apply to the sound of the choir -- an ideal 12 voices, mixed-gender and adult, from whom Maletto gets some grain. The sound matches these motets of Carlo Gesualdo beautifully. These pieces have a deeply penitential tone that has been linked in listeners' minds with the composer's murder of his wife and her lover. Maletto points out that a motet written in the 1580s, before the murders, has the same tone, but texts like that of Laboravi in gemitu meo ("I am weary of my groaning; every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my tears"), not often set by composers, do seem to have a stark, intense quality. Whatever the biographical implications, the music does have a subjective quality that is unusual in sacred music, and Maletto strikes a fine balance that catches it without making the pieces sound like madrigals. The result is an unusually satisfying recording of these works, which are less often recorded than the late Tenebrae Responsories. It is enhanced by idiomatic sound from the Chiesa della Confraternita dei Santi Rocco e Sebastiano in Cumiana, Italy, transparent enough to bring out the texture of the voices.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:23
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Il Pomo D'oro Giuseppe Maletto
- Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
- Label: Aparté
- Genre: Classical Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder
2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro
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