Gesualdo: The Complete Madrigals

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2013
Catalogue No: 8507013
Label: Naxos
Series: Gesualdo Complete Madrigals

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Gesualdo: Madrigali libro primo, 1594

Delitiæ Musicæ
Marco Longhini

Gesualdo: Madrigali libro secondo, 1594

Delitiæ Musicæ
Marco Longhini

Gesualdo: Madrigali libro terzo, 1595

Delitiæ Musicæ
Marco Longhini

Gesualdo: Madrigali libro quarto, 1596

Delitiæ Musicæ
Marco Longhini

Gesualdo: Madrigali libro quinto, 1611

Delitiæ Musicæ
Marco Longhini

Gesualdo: Madrigali libro sesto, 1611

Delitiæ Musicæ
Marco Longhini

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Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, became famous for two reasons: the bloody double murder of his first wife and her lover, and his passionate and erotic view of profane love. The Madrigals chart the changes in Gesualdo’s style, and contain some of the most inspired and anguished vocal works in the entire madrigal repertoire, on the themes of love, rejection, death, suffering, joy and sorrow. Brimming with often astonishing and sometimes unpredictable melodic and tonal contrasts to express the agonies and ecstacies of love, Gesualdo’s Madrigals show him to have been one of the most inventive and eccentric musical minds of his age.

Gesualdo: The Complete Madrigals

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