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Il Pomo D'oro|Gesualdo: Sacræ Cantiones

Gesualdo: Sacræ Cantiones

Il Pomo d'Oro, Giuseppe Maletto

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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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1
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Ave Regina cœlorum
00:03:40

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

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Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Venit lumen tuum
00:02:32

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

3
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Ave, dulcissima Maria
00:04:54

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

4
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum
00:03:35

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

5
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Dignare me laudare te
00:02:46

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

6
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Sancti Spiritus, Domine
00:02:02

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

7
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Domine, ne despicias deprecationem meam
00:03:19

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

8
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Hei mihi Domine
00:03:24

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

9
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Laboravi in gemitu meo
00:03:41

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

10
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Peccantem me quotidie
00:05:03

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

11
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: O vos omnes
00:03:43

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

12
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam
00:03:04

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

13
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Precibus et meritis
00:02:59

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

14
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: O Crux benedicta
00:03:28

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

15
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Tribularer si nescirem
00:03:22

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

16
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Deus, refugium et virtus
00:03:13

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

17
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Tribulationem et dolorem
00:03:42

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

18
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Illumina faciem tuam
00:03:21

Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Giuseppe Maletto, Conductor, MainArtist

2023 Aparté/Little Tribeca 2023 Il Pomo d'Oro

19
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus, Liber primus: Maria, mater gratiæ
00:03:35

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

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