Gesualdo: Tenebrae

Gesualdo: Tenebrae

Gesualdo: Tenebrae

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Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Conductor: Andrew Parrott
Performer: Taverner Consort
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-04-11
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:

In I. Nocturno: Antiphon: Astiterunt Reges Terrae/Psalm: Quare Fremuerunt Gentes/Antiphon...
In I. Nocturno: Lectio I: De Lamentatione...Heth
In I. Nocturno: Resp. I: Omnes Amici Mei
In I. Nocturno: Lectio II: Lamed
In I. Nocturno: Resp. II: Velum Templi
In I. Nocturno: Lectio III: Aleph
In I. Nocturno: Resp. III:L Vinea Mea Electa
In II. Nocturno: Antiphon: Aleni Insurrexerunt/Psalm: Deus In Nomine Tuo (Ps 53)/Antiphon...
In II. Nocturno: Lectio IV: Ex Tractatu..l.Protexisti Me
In II. Nocturno: Resp. IV: Tamquam Ad Latronem
In II. Nocturno: Lectio V: Tanta Opera Bona
In II. Nocturno: Resp. V: Tenebrae Factae Sunt
In II. Nocturno: Lectio VI: Exacuerunt Tamquam
In II. Nocturno: Resp. VI: Animam Meam Dilectam
In III. Nocturno: Antiphon: Captabunt In Animan Justi/Psalm: Deus Ultionum Dominus (Ps 93)...
In III. Nocturno: Lectio VII: De Epistola... Festinemus
In III. Nocturno: Resp. VII: Tradiderunt Me
In III. Nocturno: Lectio VIII: Adeamus Ergo
In III. Nocturno: Resp. VIII: Jesum Tradidit Impius
In III. Nocturno: Lectio IX: Nec Quisquam
In III. Nocturno: Resp. IX: Caligaverunt Oculi Mei

Description of Gesualdo: Tenebrae

The Neapolitan nobleman Don Carlo Gesualdo achieved modern-day fame decades before other Renaissance composers; the combination of a lurid life story and sensationally strange music proved irresistible to the likes of Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky. Gesualdo's madrigals, crammed full of sudden, disorienting changes in harmony (and dissonance), can seem to induce vertigo all by themselves, and much of his liturgical music is only marginally more stable. The Taverner Consort and Choir perform here several of Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories from the liturgy for Good Friday. Andrew Parrott's practice of performing sacred music in the context of at least a partial service works especially well here. After 70 uninterrupted minutes of Gesualdo's high-flying weirdness, a listener's sense of dislocation can wear off; hearing chant and even intoned readings between Gesualdo's music (as Gesualdo would have done in his own chapel) helps keep the ears oriented. Each time the Consort sings one of Gesualdo's pieces after some chant, you're reminded anew just how willfully bizarre that music is. The performance itself is problematic. The Taverners are certainly more engaged than the Hilliard Ensemble, but not engaged enough. Granted, these aren't madrigals, but the writing isn't that different. God knows there's breathless anguish in the music. We need to hear a bit more of it from the singers. Nevertheless, accurate execution and tuning in Gesualdo are an achievement in themselves; so is the way this program is organized. Flaws notwithstanding, Andrew Parrott and his singers show Gesualdo's sacred music to better advantage than has anyone else so far. --Matthew Westphal

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