Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
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Composer: Gregorian Chant
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Performer: King's Singers
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Music Label: Signum UK
Soundtracks:
  1. Lectio 1
  2. In Monte Oliveti
  3. Tristis Est Anima Mea
  4. Ecce Vidimus Cum
  5. Lectio 2
  6. Amicus Meus Osculi
  7. Judas Mercator Pessimus
  8. Unus Ex Discipulis Meis
  9. Lectio 3
  10. Eram Quasi Agnus Innocens
  11. Una Hora Non Potuistis
  12. Senoires Populi Consilium
  13. Benedictus
  14. Christus Factus Est

Music reviews of Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

Music Review: Just a little bit magical
Rating: 5 Stars

The King's Singers have been in decline of late. Let's not mistake this statement for one in which I say, "it's crap." What I mean is, most of the more recent King's albums haven't had the same sort of cohesive synergy which characterized their very first albums back in the Carrington-era incarnation of the group. Very very good, probably better than anyone else on the scene; but not quite as good as the King's Singers of 1976 or '77 (I forget when they actually started).

They are now back to fighting trim.

The Carrington-era group was not quite as aggressive in terms of individual vocal production as they are in this album, which is fine, a different ethic is at work here. A large portion of blame for the new and wonderful sound can be laid at the feet of new countertenor, Robin Tyson, who seems to act as an anchor for the upper end of the group's sound just as the equally wonderful Stephen Connolly has done for the bass end of the scale for many years now. The group's musicianship has never been so forward, yet so...well... musical, as it is here.

And then there's the material... Gesualdo is one of those lurking genuises who hide in Renaissance repertoire. He's always there, just overlooked more often than is fair. I think of what Bach must have been before Mendelssohn reintroduced him to the world--then I think of Gesualdo. The King's drive straight for the odd little turns that populate Gesualdo's music and reveal them in ways which I have not experienced before.

In short, this album is unearthly perfection.

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