Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday

Expressive vibrato is used judiciously in these performances, and with an organic sense of phrasing, sensitive dynamics and pretty good clarity of delivery when it comes to text, this is a fine... — MusicWeb International, 7th March 2014 More…

Release Date: 2nd Dec 2013
Catalogue No: AV2305
Label: Avie

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Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday

Taverner Consort
Andrew Parrott (director)

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16th April 2014

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Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort and Choir honour the 400th anniversary of 16th-century Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo with a reissue of their seminal recording of Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday.

Honouring the 400th anniversary of Carlo Gesualdo, the harmonically adventurous and experimental 16th-century Italian composer, Prince of Venosa, Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort and Choir offer a newly repackaged reissue of their seminal recording of Tenebae, the composer’s final group of sacred madrigals devoted to Good Friday. The Taverner singers navigate Gesualdo’s highly symbolic polyphonic structures with idiomatic first-rate performances and incisive scholarship.

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7th March 2014

Expressive vibrato is used judiciously in these performances, and with an organic sense of phrasing, sensitive dynamics and pretty good clarity of delivery when it comes to text, this is a fine recording with which I can live quite happily. Gesualdo’s remarkably anguished harmonies are served very well indeed.

18th January 2014

Originally released in 2000, this recording of the three Nocturnes of Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday reveals with glorious clarity the extraordinary vocal innovation of this extraordinary composer.

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Parrott’s all-male ensemble sing the polyphony one tone lower than published, giving their performances a rich, burnished sound...the juxtaposition of chant and polyphony by Parrott and the Taverner Consort ensures that one’s mind and thoughts are kept firmly focused on the inevitable destinations of this Lenten journey: a hill, a cross, an empty tomb.

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