Gesualdo: Madrigali libro primo, 1594
Alessandro Carmignani, Paolo Costa, Fabio Fùrnari, Paolo Fanciulacci, Marco Scavazza & Walter Testolin
Delitiæ Musicæ, Marco Longhini
There is great variety here and the performances by this fine Italian vocal ensemble are rich in timbre and colour and beautifully blended and ever flexible in tempo.
Gesualdo: Madrigali libro primo, 1594
Alessandro Carmignani, Paolo Costa, Fabio Fùrnari, Paolo Fanciulacci, Marco Scavazza & Walter Testolin
Delitiæ Musicæ, Marco Longhini
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There is great variety here and the performances by this fine Italian vocal ensemble are rich in timbre and colour and beautifully blended and ever flexible in tempo.
About
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, became famous for two reasons: the bloody double murder of his first wife and her lover and his passionate and erotic view of profane love.
Brimming with often astonishing and sometimes unpredictable melodic and tonal contrasts to express the agonies and ecstasies of love, Gesualdo’s Madrigals show him to have been one of the most inventive and eccentric musical minds of his age.
This is the first disc in a series of the complete recordings of Gesualdo’s madrigals.
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Awards and reviews
2011 edition
There is great variety here and the performances by this fine Italian vocal ensemble are rich in timbre and colour and beautifully blended and ever flexible in tempo.
29th April 2010
The six male voices of Delitiae Musicae seize upon every opportunity to point the way towards the later more radical madrigals, gently underlining passing dissonances, and bringing the texts that so sharply contrast joy and sorrow, vividly to life.
