Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories; Benedictus; Miserere

Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories; Benedictus; Miserere

Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories; Benedictus; Miserere
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Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Performer: A Sei Voci
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Music Label: Apex/Warner Classics UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. I In Monte Oliveti Oravit Ad Patrem
  2. II Tristis Est Anima Mea
  3. III Ecce Vidimus Eum
  4. IV Amicus Meus Osculi Me Tradidit
  5. V Juda Mercator Pessimus Osculo Petiit
  6. VI Unus Ex Discipulis
  7. VII Eram Quasi Agnus Innocens
  8. VIII Una Hora Non Potuistis Vigilare Mecum
  9. IX Seniores Populi Consilium Fecerunt
  10. Miserere (Psalm 50)
  11. I Omnes Amici Mei Dereliquerunt Me
  12. II Velum Templi Scissum Est
  13. III Vinea Mea Electa, Ego Te Plantavi
Music CD 2
  1. IV Tanquam Ad Latronem Existis Cum Gladiis Et Fustibus
  2. V Tenebrae Factae Sunt, Dum Crucifixissent Jesum Judaei
  3. VI Animam Meam Dilectam Tradidi In Manus Iniquorum
  4. VII Tradiderunt Me In Manus Impiorum
  5. VIII Jesum Traditit Impius Summis Principibus
  6. IX Caligaverunt Oculi Mei Fletu Meo
  7. Benedictus (Canticle Of Zachariah)
  8. I Sicut Ovis Ad Occisionem Ductus Est
  9. II Jerusalem, Surge
  10. III Plange Quasi Virgo Plebs Mea
  11. IV Recessit Pastor Noster
  12. V O Vos Omnes
  13. VI Ecce Quomodo Moritur Justus
  14. VII Astiterunt Reges Terrae
  15. VIII Aestimatus Sum Cum Descendentibus In Lacum
  16. IX Sepulto Domino Signatum Est Monumentum

Music reviews of Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories; Benedictus; Miserere

Music Review: Shadow Voices
Rating: 4 Stars

"A Sei Voci" is one of the more eccentric ensembles in 'Early Music' today. Eccentricity might be taken for adventuresomeness, but not all of their experiments succeed. They've recorded the fabulous 'Miserere' by Gregorio Allegri using a written-out set of ornaments that remind me of the toys called 'transformers.' They produced two CDs of Josquin masses using a choir of children to sing the superius, with perhaps interesting but musically incoherent results.

It might seem that eccentricity would suit the music of Carlo Gesualdo (1561-1613), but in my opinion, the composer prince built in enough expressive originality without mandating any extra eccentricity from mere performers. The 'Six Voices' have chosen to sing these Tenebrae Responsories with a thin, slightly withheld "head voice" throughout. The effect, to my ears, is expressively penitential some of the time, but also stifled much of the time. Such a timbre would seem more suitable if Gesualdo had been French rather than Italian. If the six men sang this way in a side-chapel of a cathedral, without mikes, they'd be heard only by each other.

A more objective criticism is that the tuning is not flawless. Gesualdo is notoriously hard to sing, with all his oddly prepared dissonances and his strange chromaticism. However, the chromatics only achieve poignancy when the consonances are perfect. If you listen carefully to the chords with which the polyphony resolves, at the ends of sections, you'll hear what I mean even if you are not yourself a singer. Those chords are preponderantly simple triadic majors or minors, and A Sei Voci often fails to 'nail' them.

There are virtues to this performance, nevertheless. The ensemble is well-balanced and transparent enough to reveal the inner voices at all times. The rhythmic interpretation is excellent. I can imagine finding this performance 'spiritually' uplifting and meditative.

Of all Gesualdo's works, the Tenebrae Responsoria have been most often recorded, and because they are so musically curious, every performance sounds wildly different. The Hilliard Ensemble recorded all three evenings' Responses - Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday -as A Sei Voci has done. Andrew Parrot and the Taverner Consort have recorded the Responses for Good Friday, in the context of the plainchant antiphons, psalms and lectios, giving a sounder idea of what this music was about and how it might have been heard in 1611. Philippe Herreweghe and the Ensemble Vocal Européen have recorded just the responsories for Sabbato Sancto, but have included four very plangent motets by Gesualdo, and an impressive 'Requiem' by the modern composer Sandro Gorli (b. 1948). For one reason or another, I find myself more likely to listen to any of those three recordings than to the CDs by A Sei Voci.

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