Gesualdo: Quinto libro dei madrigali / Anthony Rooley, et al

Gesualdo: Quinto libro dei madrigali / Anthony Rooley, al - Decca - DEC B001047

Label: Decca
Catalog No: DEC B001047202
Format: CD
Release Date: 2008-01-08
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 55 min.
UPC Code: 028947591108

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>Gesualdo, Carlo : Madrigals for 5 voices, Book 5
Performers Conductor Ensemble Composer

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The fifth out of six books of madrigals here exemplifies the free style of the ‘seconda prattica', employing an outstanding range of inventive harmony and chromaticism. This is markedly different from the previous generation of madrigal composers, beholden to the strict rules of counterpoint, in 'prima prattica'. The madrigals here are dissonance-laden with constantly shifting harmonies and sometimes abrupt rhythmic contrasts, and are well ahead of Gesualdo’s own contemporaries in this medium. This complexity of musical style well reflects Gesualdo’s choice of texts which were epigrammatic poems illustrating the extremes and torments of love.



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>Gesualdo, Carlo : Madrigals for 5 voices, Book 5
  • Performers: Evelyn Tubb; Andrew King (Tenor); Emma Kirkby (Soprano); Joseph Cornwell (Tenor); Richard Wistreich
  • Conductor: Anthony Rooley
  • Ensemble: Consort of Musicke
  • Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance
  • Form: Choral
  • Written: 1611