La Venexiana - Carlo Gesualdo: Quinto Libro di Madrigali, 1611 (2005)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 349 Mb | Total time: 64:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 920935 | Recorded: 2003, 2004
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 349 Mb | Total time: 64:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 920935 | Recorded: 2003, 2004
Carlo Gesualdo is one of the most fascinating composers. It is hard to escape the temptation of seeing in his madrigals the tortured reflection of his psyche, beginning with the murder committed in 1590, when he caught his first wife Maria d’Avalos in blatant adultery with her lover Fabrizio Carafa. The madrigals of the Fifth and Sixth Books are to Gesualdo what the black paintings are to Goya: works conceived in a state of solitude, with no fetters on the artist’s imagination, born in enclosed spaces and used to moving around in their gloom. It is a music fitting to resonate in remote and unusual places.