Choral, Anthems & Motets, Gesualdo (composer)
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Combining Tallis and Gesualdo with modern/contemporary composers such as Sarah Rimkus, Gerda Blok-Wilson and the late Veljo Tormis can be tricky for an ensemble, but the Gesualdo Six and Owain... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Park’s direction of the music is sensitive and alert variegated...Words and polyphonic strands are lucid, and while The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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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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The exotic harmonies in both expose the family resemblance between the styles of the two composers (though Gesualdo is even more experimental in his secular music) and the Monteverdi Choir is... —
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Those expecting the composer's trademark chromaticisms in his motets will be largely disappointed, but these more conservative pieces dispel the idea that Gesualdo's eccentricity was any mask... —
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Special offer. Liszt: Années de Pélerinage
and madrigals by Gesualdo and Marenzio
Ragna Schirmer (piano)
ensemble amarcord
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this is the Tenebrae ensemble singing the Responsories associated with the Tenebrae period. There have been several fine recordings of these items...but this one excels, partly because it gets... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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Stravinsky: Choral Works
RecommendedRuby Hughes (soprano) & Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh & Scottish Chamber Orchestra Soloists, Duncan Ferguson
Edinburgh's mixed cathedral choir bring vernal freshness to the cantata. —
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Building a Library, November 2018, Recommended - Liturgical
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