Gesualdo - Madrigals | Winter & Winter 9102592

Gesualdo - Madrigals

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Label: Winter & Winter

Cat No: 9102592

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 30th August 2019

Contents

Works

Gesualdo, Carlo

Madrigali libro quinto (Madrigals Book 5)
» Asciugate i begli occhi
» Dolcissima mia vita
» Gioite voi col canto
» Itene, o miei sospiri
» Languisce al fin chi da la vita parte
» Merce, grido piangendo
» O dolorosa gioia
» S'io non miro non moro
Madrigali libro sesto (Madrigals Book 6)
» Al mio gioir il ciel si fa sereno
» Ardita zanzaretta
» Deh, come invan sospiro
» Io parto e piu non dissi
» Io pur respiro
» Mille volte il di moro
» Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
» Se la mia morte brami
» Tu piangi, o Filli mia
» Volan quasi farfalle

Artists

EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Conductor

James Weeks

Works

Gesualdo, Carlo

Madrigali libro quinto (Madrigals Book 5)
» Asciugate i begli occhi
» Dolcissima mia vita
» Gioite voi col canto
» Itene, o miei sospiri
» Languisce al fin chi da la vita parte
» Merce, grido piangendo
» O dolorosa gioia
» S'io non miro non moro
Madrigali libro sesto (Madrigals Book 6)
» Al mio gioir il ciel si fa sereno
» Ardita zanzaretta
» Deh, come invan sospiro
» Io parto e piu non dissi
» Io pur respiro
» Mille volte il di moro
» Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
» Se la mia morte brami
» Tu piangi, o Filli mia
» Volan quasi farfalle

Artists

EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Conductor

James Weeks

About

EXAUDI, long-established among the UK's leading vocal consorts, presents fresh readings of 19 of Gesualdo's madrigals from Books V and VI, combining rigorous stylistic understanding and tonal beauty with an overriding focus on the music's extreme expressive vision.

“The late madrigals of Gesualdo exert a strange and enduring fascination on the modern musical imagination. Listening today to these extraordinary messages of anguish and ecstasy, we are drawn back to his flame like lovers who can’t let go, into the warp of chromatic harmony, the emotional hyper-intensity and mysterious otherness of this most tantalising early Baroque figure.”
– James Weeks

EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble:
- Juliet Fraser (soprano)
- Lucy Goddard (mezzo-soprano)
- Tom Williams (countertenor)
- Stephen Jeffes (tenor)
- David de Winter (tenor)
- Jimmy Holliday (bass)

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