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Carlo Gesualdo

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All'ombra degli allori (2)
Asciugate i begli occhi (1)
Ave, Regina caelorum (3)
Ave, dulcissima Maria (6)
Canzon francese del Principe (arr. for guitar) (1)
Canzon francese del Principe (9)
Come vivi, cor mio (2)
Deus refugium et virtus (2)
Dignare me laudare te (2)
Dolcissima mia vita (arr. Urban Agnas for brass ensemble) (1)
Domine ne despicias (2)
Exaudi Deus deprecationem meam (2)
Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa (arr. R. Gagne for organ) (1)
Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa (6)
Gagliarda seconda (1)
Gagliarda (1)
Gailliarda nona (1)
Gailliarda ottava (1)
Gailliarda quarta (1)
Hei mihi Domine (2)
Illumina faciem tuam (3)
Illumina nos (1)
In te, Domine, speravi (1)
In van dunque (1)
Io tacero, ma nel silenzio mio (1)
Itene, o miei sospiri (1)
Laboravi in gemitu meo (2)
Madrigali libro primo (Madrigals Book 1) (8)
Madrigali libro quarto (Madrigals Book 4) (12)
Madrigali libro quinto (Madrigals Book 5) (21)
Madrigali libro secondo (Madrigals Book 2) (6)
Madrigali libro sesto (Madrigals Book 6) (19)
» Suite
Madrigali libro terzo (Madrigals Book 3) (9)
Madrigals (6) (orch. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski) (1)
Maria, Mater gratiae (3)
Moro, lasso, al mio duolo (1)
Non t'amo, o voce ingrata (1)
O Crux benedicta (arr. Tonu Kaljuste for string orchestra) (1)
O Crux benedicta (3)
O dolorosa gioia (1)
O vos omnes (5)
Peccantem me quotidie (3)
Precibus et meritus (3)
Reminiscere miserationum tuarum (2)
Sacrae Cantiones (3) (arr. Stravinsky) (2)
Sacrarum Cantionum quinque vocibus (complete) (2)
Sacrarum Cantionum quinque vocibus, Book 1 (1)
Salmi delle compiete (1)
Sancti Spiritus Domine (2)
Sinfonia a quattro antica (1)
T'amo mia vita, la mia cara vita (arr. Urban Agnas for brass ensemble) (1)
Tenebrae Responsories (17)
Tribularer si nescirem (2)
Tribulationem et dolorem (2)
Tuordion (arr. Stefan Gustavsson for brass ensemble) (1)
Venit lumen tuum Jerusalem (2)

Carlo Gesualdo (Venosa, 8 March 1560 – Gesualdo, 8 September 1613), also known as Gesualdo da Venosa (Gesualdo from Venosa), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian nobleman, lutenist, composer and murderer.

As a composer of the late Renaissance, he is remembered for writing intensely expressive madrigals and sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century.

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