The Tenebrae Responsories, with their highly dramatic texts ("Could you not for one hour keep watch with me, you who yearned to die in my place?"), exerted a strong fascination over the minds of various Renaissance composers, and the tradition perhaps reached its apex with the Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday of Carlo Gesualdo recorded here. In these works, more than in any of his other sacred compositions, Gesualdo approached the experimental, highly chromatic language of his late madrigals. His namesake Gesualdo ...
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The Tenebrae Responsories, with their highly dramatic texts ("Could you not for one hour keep watch with me, you who yearned to die in my place?"), exerted a strong fascination over the minds of various Renaissance composers, and the tradition perhaps reached its apex with the Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday of Carlo Gesualdo recorded here. In these works, more than in any of his other sacred compositions, Gesualdo approached the experimental, highly chromatic language of his late madrigals. His namesake Gesualdo Six, under the direction of Owain Park, does them full justice with readings that revel in the sharp contrasts between verses, reflecting the ideas in the texts. The six singers stand in a circle, facing each other, and the level of coordination in this intense, slicing music is impressive indeed. Singing the music with one voice per part works well in the closed-in world of Gesualdo, although somewhat less well in the other major work on the program, the Lamentations of Jeremiah by...
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