Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri primo & secondo
Les Arts Florissants and Paul Agnew
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Early Music
The sheer inquisitive delight that these singers bring to Gesualdo’s extraordinary world indicates a very exciting series ahead.
Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri primo & secondo
Les Arts Florissants and Paul Agnew
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Early Music
The sheer inquisitive delight that these singers bring to Gesualdo’s extraordinary world indicates a very exciting series ahead.
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Having thoroughly explored the madrigals of Monteverdi, Paul Agnew returns to the genre, this time focusing on the work of Gesualdo, whose mastery of chromaticism and dissonance eventually turned these expressive devices into a defining feature of his musical style.
A fascinating repertoire that Paul Agnew and his team delight in offering here.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineDecember 2019Editor's Choice
December 2019
The sheer inquisitive delight that these singers bring to Gesualdo’s extraordinary world indicates a very exciting series ahead.
27th October 2019
These five-voice miniatures contain no hint of the tortured mind that the experimental harmonies of later works are usually taken to represent. They are, rather, exquisitely wrought, lavishly expressive pieces on the subject of love, sung unaccompanied and with affecting ardour by Les Arts Florissants.
