Gesualdo - Deus refugium et virtus
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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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Another considerable feather in the already well-bedecked caps of both Oxford Camerata and Naxos... deeply expressive performances. —
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Highly-charged dissonances, strange harmonic progressions paint words that implore and plead and cry out for mercy. Though they are as dramatic as Gesualdo’s madrigals, these sacred works inhabit... —
