Harry van der Kamp, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigali Libri I - III (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 598 Mb | Total time: 142:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 138-2 | Recorded: 2001, 2002
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 598 Mb | Total time: 142:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 138-2 | Recorded: 2001, 2002
When you want music filled to the brim with despair and death, Carlo Gesualdo is the composer you want. Consider opening lines like those of the first four of his third collection of madrigals: "You want me to die," "Whether I die or not," "Alas, life of despair," and "I languish and die": even Dowland and Shostakovich are cheerier than Gesualdo. But, however dark his texts, it cannot be denied that Gesualdo set them with absolute fidelity and utmost sincerity. His lines are twisted, his harmonies are tortured, and his counterpoint is agonizing, but they suit his morbid and morose texts like George Gershwin's music fit his brother Ira.
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