Carlo Gesualdo (Composer)
Born: 8th March 1566, Venosa, Italy
Died: 8th September 1613, Gesualdo, Campania, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza. As a composer he is known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century. He is also known for killing his first wife and her aristocratic lover upon finding them in flagrante delicto. The responses to this and to his music have often gone hand in hand.
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Recording of the Week,
Gesualdo - Sacred and Secular
James Wood directs Vocalconsort berlin in the second book of Sacrae Cantiones, whilst La Compagnia del Madrigale are on flamboyant form in the Sixth Book of Madrigals – dark, disorientating works which could scarcely be more different from their English counterparts.
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Popular Works: Gesualdo
- Ardita zanzaretta (8)
- Ardo per te, mio bene (5)
- Asciugate i begli occhi (10)
- Ave, Dulcissima Maria (15)
- Beltà poinche t' assenti (6)
- Canzon francese del Principe (13)
- Dolcissima ma vita (7)
- Ecco, morirò dunque (6)
- Felicissimo sonno (5)
- Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa (13)
- Già piansi nel dolore (8)
- Io parto, e non più dissi, (5)
- Io pur respiro (7)
- Io tacerò, ma nel silenzio mio (8)
- Itene, o miei sospiri (5)
- Languisce al fin chi da la vita parte (6)
- Luci serene e chiare (8)
- Madrigali libro terzo, 1595 (6)
- Madrigali libro quarto, 1596 (6)
- Madrigali libro quinto, 1611 (8)
- Madrigali libro sesto, 1611 (10)
- Maria, Mater gratiae (5)
- Mentre gira costei (5)
- Mercè grido paingendo (15)
- Moro, lasso, al mio duolo (16)
- Non t'amo, o voce ingrata (8)
- O Crux benedicta (7)
- O dolorosa gioia (11)
- O Vos Omnes (27)
- Occhi del mio cor vita (5)
- Peccantem me quotidie (9)
- Precibus et meritis (5)
- Quando ridente e bella (5)
- Questa crudele e pia (7)
- Responsories, feria 5: No. 1 In monte Oliveti (5)
- Se la mia morte brami (8)
- Se vi duol il mio duolo (5)
- Tribulationem et dolorem (6)
- Tristis est anima mea (7)
- Tu m'uccidi, o crudele (5)
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