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Carlo Gesualdo's five-voice motets, published in 1603 under the title Sacrae Cantiones, have suffered in recording catalogs in comparison with his tortured madrigals and exquisitely gloomy Tenebrae responsories. This is a shame, for revealed here are serious sacred compositions that make use of many madrigalian devices, but are not simply madrigals with sacred texts. They come out especially madrigalian in this one-voice-per-part recording by the young Marian Consort: not always an ideal solution, but easy enough to imagine for Gesualdo, writing in splendid isolation in his castle after the violent events of his life, with a small troupe of virtuoso musicians on the payroll. Gesualdo uses his chromatic and extreme madrigal language as just one possibility among several; typically chromaticism will illustrate a moment of suffering, but then the polyphony will retreat to the block proto-chords of the later 16th century's motet composers or even to smooth Palestrina-like polyphony, as the text demands. The result is an exceptionally sensitive handling of text, serious but never overwrought. Sample a piece like Hei mihi, Domine for the overall effect. A recommended way into some little-known late Renaissance masterworks.
© TiVo
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Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - The Marian Consort, MainArtist - Rory McCleery, MainArtist - Delphian Records, MusicPublisher
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
Album review
Carlo Gesualdo's five-voice motets, published in 1603 under the title Sacrae Cantiones, have suffered in recording catalogs in comparison with his tortured madrigals and exquisitely gloomy Tenebrae responsories. This is a shame, for revealed here are serious sacred compositions that make use of many madrigalian devices, but are not simply madrigals with sacred texts. They come out especially madrigalian in this one-voice-per-part recording by the young Marian Consort: not always an ideal solution, but easy enough to imagine for Gesualdo, writing in splendid isolation in his castle after the violent events of his life, with a small troupe of virtuoso musicians on the payroll. Gesualdo uses his chromatic and extreme madrigal language as just one possibility among several; typically chromaticism will illustrate a moment of suffering, but then the polyphony will retreat to the block proto-chords of the later 16th century's motet composers or even to smooth Palestrina-like polyphony, as the text demands. The result is an exceptionally sensitive handling of text, serious but never overwrought. Sample a piece like Hei mihi, Domine for the overall effect. A recommended way into some little-known late Renaissance masterworks.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:00:45
- Main artists: The Marian Consort Rory McCleery
- Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
- Label: Delphian Records LTD
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2016 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2016 Delphian Records LTD
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