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Attempting to cram the history of western music, 700 years of it, onto two CDs, and perform it only on piano by one pianist, may
In case you are sifting through your residual Spanish from college, your rough translation is correct: This early music group calls itself Rats of the
When I want to hear Gesualdo madrigals this is the
There’s a lot of beautiful and well-sung music on this program, a recording from 1986 reissued as part of the Carus label’s “Classics” imprint, a
This 55-CD set chronicles the remarkable Archiv label, begun in
We last encountered the 6-voice Italian male ensemble Delitiae Musicae in its series of Monteverdi madrigals for Naxos (type Q7709, Q7721, and Q10219 in Search
There is always much talk that the circumstances of Carlo Gesualdo’s life dictated the intensity of his music: dubbed the “principe assassino”, the high-born, well-connected
In 1990, in the same Douai Abbey in Berkshire, England, the Hilliard Ensemble recorded (for ECM) all nine of the responsories for Maundy Thursday presented
Gesualdo definitely takes the cake for sheer weirdness among Renaissance composers. Perhaps because he was enormously wealthy and had to please no-one with his musical
