Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

Singers: David Hurley (countertenor), Robin Tyson (countertenor), Paul Phoenix (tenor), Philip Lawson (baritone), Gabriel Crouch (baritone), Stephen Connolly (bass).
This album is by the Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo. He is considered to be one of the finest and certainly one of the most innovative composers of Italian madrigals in the late Renaissance. In this album we can found his use of dissonance and phrasing to be way ahead of his time, creating very beautiful and haunting choral music. The listener will get the most from this music by guiding their listening with the liner notes, in a meditative environment like the Abby where it was recorded. The king's singers made considerable effort to be very picturesque in their interpretation of the Lessons of the Holy Week story making the music come to new life even though it was written 400 years ago!.
Label:
Signum Records Year: 2004



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1.Lectio 1
2.In Monte Oliveti. Responsorie from 1st Nocturn
3.Tristis est anima mea. Responsorie from 1st Nocturn
4.Ecce vidimus eum. Responsorie from 1st Nocturn
5.Lectio 2
6.Amicus meus osculi. Responsorie from 2nd Nocturn
7.Judas mercator pessimus. Responsorie from 2nd Nocturn
8.Unus ex disciplus meis. Responsorie from 2nd Nocturn
9.Lectio 3
10.Eram quasi agnus innocens. Responsorie from 3rd Nocturn
11.Una hora non potuisti. Responsorie from 3rd Nocturn
12.Seniores populi consilium. Responsorie from 3rd Nocturn
13.Bendictus. Responsorie from 3rd Nocturn
14.Christus factus est. Responsorie from 3rd Nocturn
 

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