On the 10th anniversary of the death of Louis I. Botto, Chanticleer's founder, the male vocal ensemble commissioned five composers to write a composite mass in honor of his life. The movements of the ordinary of the mass are interspersed with works by Gesualdo and Andrea Gabrieli, and the whole is bookended by the plainsong Da Pacem, Domine. The ...
Discover Early Music is part of a series covering the history of Western classical music, from medieval times to the present day; each volume contains two CDs and a booklet of about 100 pages, mostly given over to a historical essay keyed to the selections included. One may wonder, when looking at these discs, why no one has done this before, ...
This 1990 recording demonstrates how well a collection of related works can be organized into a cohesive program with a clear, far-sighted theme. It is a collection of Stravinsky's choral works, with Les noces (The Wedding) as its focal point. Opening with a collection of traditional Russian bridal songs, the disc then treats listeners to ...
The King's Singers originally made their reputation in the 1960s on the strength of their interpretations of Renaissance music. Given their wide popularity over the years, and their contractual obligations to major companies such as EMI and RCA, the King's Singers have been required to branch out into areas, such as the music of the Beatles and ...
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. ...
This album of unaccompanied choral music by the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City looks like a sampler from the outside, but the notes reveal a fairly specific program, which can be interpreted either as "Christ's persecution and suffering intermingled with his concession to God's will with his redeeming final transformation into pure ...
With a score and enough time, it might be possible to memorize Carlo Gesualdo's madrigals. But who could live through it? Beyond their unexpected harmonies, unpredictable melodies, and nearly incomprehensible structures, Gesualdo's madrigals are unbearably expressive and overwhelmingly intense. And then there's the anguished poetry, poetry so ...
The material on this disc may be a footnote to musical history, but, as anyone who has read David Foster Wallace can tell you, the best stuff is sometimes in the footnotes. La tavola cromatica contains music that might have been associated with a viol academy of early seventeenth century Rome, established by Cardinal Francesco Barberini -- scion ...
This ambitious German release takes an unusual cross section of music from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, which is conventionally divided up by composer, country, genre, or patron. Here the Ensemble Daedalus and its director Roberto Festa instead examine a single affect, melancholy, as it manifested itself in various places ...
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