Choral, Madrigals & Partsongs, Gesualdo (composer)
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Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Quinto & Sesto
Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), Paul Agnew (tenor)
Here, the singers zone in on Gesualdo’s final two anthologies (perhaps the rawest of all) with their usual crystalline clarity. —
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Gramophone Awards, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Many vocal skills we now admire in opera were born in the early 17th century. These performances centre upon the techniques of the early solo singer-composers, wonderfully resurrected here by... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Baroque vocal
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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These extremely accomplished singers makes sense of these notoriously wayward and enigmatic works… they are able to capture the kaleidoscopic thoughts of the poetry, producing clarity of utterance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2013
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2013, Winner - Musique ancienne
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Special offer. Gesualdo: Dolcissima Mia Vita. Madrigali A Cinque Voci, Libro Quinto (1611)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
These one-to-apart performances are perfect for navigating the gnarly dissonances and extreme expression of Italy’s controversial Renaissance great, as emotions run from ecstasy to deepest pain. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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…these are richly complex works and these performances do them more justice than most. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Finalist - Early Music
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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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Special offer. Gesualdo: O Dolce Mio Tesoro
Sesto Libro Di Madrigali, 1611
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
In items such as Già pense the performers demonstrate an understanding that not all of these madrigals are morbid (fewer than half mention death), and they deck out the sound with warm chords... —
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Building a Library, May 2012, First Choice
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It seems to me that they have taken time to properly hit their stride, but here they rediscover the heights scaled with Claudio Cavina at the helm. These are near-flawless readings, effortlessly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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