Jeremy Summerly, Oxford Camerata - Carlo Gesualdo: Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 249 Mb | Total time: 68:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.550742 | Recorded: 1992
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 249 Mb | Total time: 68:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.550742 | Recorded: 1992
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, murderer in 1590 of his guilty wife and her lover, later took a wife from the d’Este family, rulers of Ferrara, whose musical interests coincided with his own. He wrote a quantity of sacred and secular vocal music and a relatively small number of instrumental pieces. In style his music is unusual in its sudden changes of tonality, its harmony and its intensity of feeling, qualities that have found particular favour among some modern theorists.