Release Date: 19 August 2022
Label: Glossa
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8424562809345
Genres: Classical Early Music
Description
The Fourth Book of Madrigals displays an increased tendency towards chromatism, but short of the extreme experimentalism of the two following collections.
Amidst the stormy and poignant intensity of pages like Sparge la morte or Moro, e mentre sospiro, there is still room for fleeting accents of gentleness and lightness, traces of luminosity and a certain ease in the movement of the high parts (perhaps an echo of the vocal charms of the ‘Trio of Dames’).
Thus, this Fourth Book serves as a bridge in Gesualdo’s production.
The result is a jewel that shines with a light at once brilliant and sombre. By the way, does not the surprising façade of Gesualdo’s first residence in Ferrara – the Palace of Diamonds – produce the same impression? Perhaps the spirit of Ferrara speaks, in covert fashion, in these madrigals.
Tracklisting
Lina Tur Bonet, Musica Alchemica
Eduardo Eguez, La Compagnia del Madgriale
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Bruggen
Le Concert Spirituel; Herve Niquet
Graindelavoix; Bjorn Schmelzer; Manuel Mota
Jose Maria Lo Monaco; Stefano Aresi; Stile Galante
Orchestra of the 18th Century
The Viadana Collective, Maximilien Brisson
Sollazzo Ensemble, Anna Danilevskaia
Lina Tur Bonet, Musica Alchemica
Eduardo Eguez, La Compagnia del Madgriale
Beauty Farm
Krzysztof Firlus
Ensemble Del Passato
Carine Tinney; Ziv Braha; ensemble feuervogel
